RE: [emergency] RE: Sample email to interested partiesWRTgeoenhancements to CAP

["Ron Lake" <rlake@galdosinc.com>]

Hi,

See comments below to Alessandro's comment.

R

-----Original Message-----
From: Alessandro Triglia [mailto:sandro@oss.com] 
Sent: November 26, 2007 5:02 PM
To: 'Art Botterell'; emergency@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [emergency] RE: Sample email to interested
partiesWRTgeoenhancements to CAP

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Art Botterell [mailto:ABott@so.cccounty.us] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 01:38
> To: emergency@lists.oasis-open.org; sandro@oss.com
> Subject: Re: [emergency] RE: Sample email to interested 
> partiesWRTgeoenhancements to CAP
> 
> Let's keep our eye on the ball here.  Our goal isn't adoption 
> of CAP for its own sake and at any cost.  The purpose of CAP 
> is to achieve interoperability among warning systems globally. 
> 
>  If we start to sacrifice interoperability in pursuit of 
> nominal adoptions that can't actually communicate with each 
> other, I'm afraid we'll be justly criticised for having lost 
> sight of our real mission.  


I am not sure I agree.

Broad adoption (possibly with flexibility to support local situations)
is a
major goal of a **standard**.  Increased interoperability in a local
context
or in a particular community is the main goal of a **profile**.  Since
OASIS
is an international organization, it should aim at satisfying the
requirements of a global community of users.  Locally developed profiles
can
then enhance interoperability in local contexts.

It's very important to make sure that the standard can be effectively
profiled, and that there is no ambiguity in the instances.  For example,
you
don't want to allow the use of just "any" CRS without saying what CRS is
being used.

[RTL]  Yes - I think that is the role of a CRS binding to geometry (like
the srsName in GML) and the CRS registry - so there can be no ambiguity
as to WHAT CRS is meant.

Alessandro



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