Re: [emergency-cap-profiles] profile proliferation

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Thanks Art,

I agree that the real answer is to move CAP toward EDXL integration, 
and I get the sense that that is what the next step will be, and that 
we'll probably get started on it sooner rather than later. For now, 
though, I think we're doing okay on the work before us.

I also agree that encouraging more CAP Profiles is not wise, and 
thinking through it is convincing me of that the more I study it.

Cheers,
Rex

At 10:56 AM -0800 1/7/09, Art Botterell wrote:
>Again I'd stress that profiles aren't devised by message originators for
>their own purposes, but rather are used to document special requirements
>of particular message consumers.  If a particular consumer or consumers
>(e.g., IPAWS) wants to specify what it/they need(s) to see in a message,
>it/they can publish a profile.  Then originators may choose to implement
>or not implement that profile, depending on how important satisfying
>that particular consumer or consumers is to them.
>
>Strictly speaking a data dictionary defines semantics, while a schema
>specifies syntax.  (In practice a data dictionary may mention syntactic
>rules as well, but the schema is generally viewed as definitive on
>syntax.)  So a profile might include a data dictionary, a schema or
>depending on what's being constrained.  (Or even "neither" if the
>particular constraints in question are simple enough to be described
>without resorting to a full-blown dictionary or schema.) 
>
>For example, a rule that there can only be one info block (NOT a
>recommendation, only an example!) might be expressed best in a schema,
>whereas a rule that says info blocks shall only be used for versions of
>the same message in different languages (again, only for example) would
>be a semantic constraint best addressed in data dictionary style.
>
>As for a dictionary of agreed semantics within an application domain,
>that would need to be defined by the subject matter experts.  For
>example, we here aren't seismologists.  That's how EDXL approaches
>various versions of this same problem, and that's why I think the real
>answer here is to move CAP toward EDXL integration without perpetrating
>in any more profiles than are absolutely necessary in the meantime.
>
>- Art
>
>
>
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