Important Concepts and Developments in Today's Meeting

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to mention that we surfaced an important deliverable that 
coincides with, and may be combined with the work on EDXL-DE that 
will support both the Adoption and RIM Subcommittees.

That concept is the agreed (as in official) domain content models 
that Carl noted. Carl was responding to Dave's question about how OGC 
handles message info pertaining to data that may be associated with a 
message transmission for correctly interpreting factors 
(termnologies) that may be different depending on from whom the 
message is received and to whom it is intended (with particular 
emphasis on the pub-sub context). Carl noted that some communities, 
e.g. USGS, and European Emergency Management have accepted/approved 
Content Models represented by correct metadata as a means to ensure 
semantic interoperability. Carl also mentioned some specific places 
where such information could be found.

Rex suggested that what would be helpful would be a web location (URL 
for a single registry website) where references-links to such Content 
Models could be maintained so that people and applications could 
find, navigate to and obtain, these models so that the models could 
be accurately cited and used in pub-sub and for other EDXL-DE related 
routing purposes.

An unaligned, non-governmental body, such as OASIS would be a good 
place to put together such a registry, and the requirements for and 
specification of such a registry is a candidate work product Or 
deliverable for this SC, especially as an adjunct to the work on 
explaining EDXL-DE 1.0 in a cookbook or implementation guide, as well 
as gathering requirements for EDXL-DE 1.1.

Dave also noted that the larger behind-the-scenes picture seems to 
indicate that there may be more support for supporting the 
development of an EDXL-Asset Tracking specification.

Cheers,
Rex
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