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Subject: Re: [emergency] FW: Inter-Governmental Information SharingStandards: Meeting March 8
Friends - In support of comments by Rex and Len... I wonder if we're in danger of letting ourselves get bogged down in other folks' turf battles and grand schemes to the detriment of the specific job we've taken on. Per Len, I'm not sure that a degree of diversity is necessarily a bad thing, considering the relatively early stage such standards efforts are really at, and that we have a mechanism (namespaces) for preventing confusion until the user base / marketplace sorts things out. And per Rex, I'm not sure that either determining the One True Vocabulary or harmonizing multiple standards efforts is really within this TC's scope. Ultimately, only the practitioners can resolve the long-standing questions of interdisciplinary nomenclature. Personally, I'd be inclined to leave those questions to policy-level groups like the EIC and, of course, to the responsible agencies themselves (e.g., the NIMS Integration team). In particular, I'm not sure a full-scale comparison of CAP, EDXL and GJXDM (and IEEE 1512?) is really our job. We've agreed to address a specific set of requirements, which include a fairly specific example vocabulary. In the interests of making tangible progress, might we be wiser to limit ourselves to searching other standards for existing equivalents to the particular items in the EDXL Routing Block requirements as provided by FEMA and EIC? All these larger issues do need attention, at the appropriate time and in the appropriate venues... but I'm suggesting that this TC may get more done by "sticking to our knitting" than by letting ourselves be embroiled into other people's issues. - Art
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