Re: [emergency] EDXL DE "issue" senderID

[Kon Wilms <kon@datacast.biz>]

On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 08:24 -0600, Ellis, David wrote:
> The CAP philosophy of messages being sent from ´peopleˇ to ´peopleˇ
> thru application interface forms is not the ´machineˇ to ´machineˇ
> EDXL philosophy.  Sensor devices are not always uniquely associated
> with a domain and they are for sure not sent by an individual actor.
> In fact, most are on private ´e.g. 10.1.1.1ˇ internet non-routable
> networks.  Because there are so many instantiations of these types of
> sensor networks we have explored MAC addresses of devices NICs for
> identifying the unique source of the application device sending the
> EXDL message.  We need to consider expanding the restriction of
> <senderID> to more than an individual ´e-mail addressˇ.

Why can't you use a keyword element?

Cheers
Kon