Overlap between OASIS CAM templates and BTRI NIEM / IEPD

["David RR Webber \(XML\)" <david@drrw.info>]

Just FYI - 

http://niem.gtri.gatech.edu/niemtools/resources/docs/NIEM_IEPD_Reqs_v2-1.doc

Seems like CAM templates are a perfect match for NIEM / IEPD requirements,

DW

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2.3	Enhance IEPD consistency and readability community wide
An IEPD must be human readable as well as machine readable so that it can be parsed easily for automatic processing tasks such as registration, content assembly/disassembly, search and navigation, etc.  The IEPD specification must provide a consistent format for identifying and defining each artifact contained in an IEPD.  Furthermore, an IEPD may have mandatory, conditionally mandatory, or optional artifacts to support various business contexts for which it was designed.
  
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2.5	IEPDs capture business context 
Business context is used for search, discovery, and navigation in a repository or IEPDs, and to understand how and which IEPDs can be used in particular business exchanges.