Re: [emergency] NOAA Undermining International Standards?

[Renato Iannella <renato@nicta.com.au>]

On 2 Jun 2006, at 13:24, Art Botterell wrote:

> So the question is whether it's appropriate for a consumer of CAP  
> messages to arbitrarily decide to ignore certain legal CAP elements  
> that it could technically use.  (And then to use that restriction  
> as an excuse for forcing users to adopt a particular tool for CAP  
> generation.)

I see....so you are saying that NOAA may receive the following:

  <cap:description>A major cyclone is .... </cap:description>
  <cap:instruction>Evacuate now...</cap:instruction>

And that they may then forward that message on (via various  
mechanisms) with the last element missing...

This sounds like the need for a "community profile" on the behaviours  
for processing the (technical) CAP data..

Cheers...  Renato Iannella
National ICT Australia (NICTA)



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