Re: [emergency] Draft TC Letter on HazCollect

["Carl Reed OGC Account" <creed@opengeospatial.org>]

My one concern is the use of the phrase, "non-compliant implementation". 
What is a compliant implementation? In the standards world, compliance 
suggests a rigorous testing framework in which assertions (rules) as 
specified in the standard are specifically tested against a given 
implementation. The OGC has almost 4 years experience in building and 
providing compliance testing for a number of our core standards. This 
framework determines that a product implementation of a particular 
Specification fulfills all mandatory elements as specified and that these 
elements are operable. There is significant value to an organization or 
vendor in having their implementation of a given standard pass a compliance 
test.

I am not trying to be overly sticky on the semantics, but if I were on the 
NOAA side, I would ask the question "and what exactly do you mean by 
compliance?"

Also, just to stir the pot a bit, even compliance does not insure 
interoperability. Interoperability testing is a whole other topic.

OGC is not the only organization that provide compliance testing. So does 
ISO, IEEE, the ITU, and many other standards organizations.

Regards

Carl





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elysa Jones" <ejones@warningsystems.com>
To: <emergency@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: [emergency] Draft TC Letter on HazCollect


> sorry - forgot the attachment.
>
> At 05:29 PM 6/13/2006, Elysa Jones wrote:
>>Hi TC members,
>>
>>Per our telecon today, please find a round 2 draft of a letter to
>>NOAA about their implementation of HazCollect.  Comment to the list
>>on this draft.  I would like to schedule a call for the purpose of
>>finalizing this letter for 12:30 EDT, Wed.  Along with your comments
>>let me know of your availability for that call.  The EIC meeting
>>will begin at 1:00 and I would like to have this letter in final
>>form and approved by a majority of our voting membership by that
>>time.  If you are a voting member and are going to be at the
>>meeting, just be there at 12:30 instead of 1:00.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Elysa Jones, Chair
>>OASIS EM-TC
>>Engineering Program Manager
>>Warning Systems, Inc.
>>
>>PS - EIC meeting 1-3 EDT, Call in details:  712-425-2000 code:  20002#
>>
>>
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