RE: [emergency] Naming Conventions

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

Title: RE: [emergency] Naming Conventions

Got it, Rex.   The usual meta-meta problem:  do a data design a la abstract interface

or create a vocabulary.  I like the VRML solution to that:  do both with the

encodings and vocabularies as optional features.  It's more work but one

can nail down the semantics and give the user community a chance to 

converge at the level of efficiency most appropriate to the local contracting 

situation.  When volunteer groups sit down to create specs and standards, 

they should keep in mind the problem for the actual industry of changing 

horses.   We're glad to see the work being done by OASIS in public safety, 

but until it shows up in an RFP, it's just nice-to-have, Sounds Good Maybe Later, 

kind of work.  DOJ can't drive it down from the top without funding it too.  And 

technical standards that don't account for medium constraints don't have a 

snowball's chance anyway.  Thus, we use the RFP to guide us and cost 

accordingly. 

 

I note reading through the JusticeXML dictionary that they have wisely left

open most aspects of the data definition (eg, loose types, loose occurrence

constraints, etc) and stayed mainly to a labeled tree.  Much easier to live

with that way.

 

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Rex Brooks [mailto:rexb@starbourne.com]
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 11:48 AM
To: Bullard, Claude L (Len)
Cc: emergency@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [emergency] Naming Conventions

Hi Len,

Please see my reply to Eliot's post.