Re: [emergency] FW: [legalxml-intjustice] GJXDM subset schema example and documen tation

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

I started to reply to Len's complete message, but started by going to 
the url's and realized that I just have a large pile of reading 
matter that I will have to wade through first. Somehow this is 
dovetailing with other work, so it is somewhat less awful for the 
inner child who is cringing over in the corner of my mind, so at 
least I can get dual use out of it. Funny, I don't think that's gonna 
make it go down any better.

However, I agree that we want CAP to be part of Global Justice, 
though we might also like to see a bit more global in Global Justice, 
at least our part of it.

Oddly enough, I think our recent discussions of registries as part of 
our next set of tasks is rather more germane than I originally 
thought for connecting govt and biz. If we get that part right too, 
as we continue wrestling with CAP, which we will be doing whether it 
is voted up or down, we might be able to solve some parts of the 
eventing/notification questions we will shortly be addressing. 
Knocking out two birds with one stone sounds good to me.

Well, best not get too far ahead of myself.

Ciao,
Rex

At 10:20 AM -0500 3/23/04, R. Allen Wyke wrote:
>Well put.
>
>As a side note, I did want to comment (personally) on this one section....
>
>>Anyway, you might want to adjust your concepts to
>>differentiate specifications and standards.  CAP
>>and Global Justice are specifications for systems
>>groups want to create.  NIBRS and UCR are standards
>>for systems that do exist and are in widespread use.
>>It isn't smart to bet the farm on a specification.
>>It is smart to develop them as affordable.  I'd say
>>you definitely want CAP to be part of Global Justice.
>
>I do, IMHO, agree that this is where CAP is - its a specification. 
>However, and I can say this as Chair, the primary author of both the 
>Charter and Requirements Document, and as a CTO of a company that 
>targets both public safety AND business continuity as markets, this 
>was NOT the intention of this TC. It was to create standards - not 
>specs. Their are 10,000,000,000 different XML schemas out there - 
>they are a dime-a-dozen. We do not need more - they are hard enough 
>to sort out. What we need are standards - standards for doing things 
>such as exchanging Alert information - not just describing it.
>
>Allen
>
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