Standard or Spec (was RE: [emergency] FW: [legalxml-intjustice]GJXDM...)

[Art Botterell <acb@incident.com>]

At 9:06 AM -0600 3/23/04, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>CAP and Global Justice are specifications for systems  groups want to create.

Um... well, that's certainly true in part.  However, within the 
warning systems industry there are existing systems and an immediate 
need for standards and that's where CAP originated.

Occasionally we've drifted into discussion of some ultimate system 
we'd like to see built.  Nothing wrong with that sort of visioning, 
but in the meantime real-world applications of CAP are happening 
right now... in DC, in Oregon, in California and in Australia just to 
mention a few.

BTW... one of those warning system providers will be sitting in on 
today's call on my behalf... Elysa Jones of Warning Systems Inc. is a 
founding Trustee of the Partnership for Public Warning and just an 
excellent human being and I know you'll all enjoy having her among 
you.  (Meanwhile, I get to actually get paid for something.)

- Art