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Subject: Re: [emergency] Standard or Spec (was RE: [emergency] FW: [legalxml-intjustice] GJXDM...)
On Mar 23, 2004, at 11:03 AM, Art Botterell wrote: > At 9:06 AM -0600 3/23/04, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: >> CAP and Global Justice are specifications for systems groups want to >> create. > > Um... well, that's certainly true in part. However, within the > warning systems industry there are existing systems and an immediate > need for standards and that's where CAP originated. > > Occasionally we've drifted into discussion of some ultimate system > we'd like to see built. Nothing wrong with that sort of visioning, > but in the meantime real-world applications of CAP are happening right > now... in DC, in Oregon, in California and in Australia just to > mention a few. Let's keep in mind that while the result of mass (or whatever level) adoption of CAP may result in a "warning system", regardless of but fully acknowledging it as part of its history, that is not the purpose of CAP. CAP is applicable in a much wider sense. A "warning system" would be the purpose of an implementation. CAP role in a warning system is to facilitate the exchanging of alert data in an interoperable way. So, if Oregon, California, whoever wants to build a State-wide warning system and use CAP, that is great, but that is not 100% (the walled garden) of what CAP is for. Maybe a bank wants to pull some of those warnings, while at the same time take alerts from other service providers, such as a weather service, computer virus alert service, or even a smoke alarm system that is going off at one of their branches. They may want to consume CAP alerts from a 1,000 or more different sources, but to do so there has to be enough commonality in how CAP is defined to ensure these various services do not need a bunch of one-off interfaces. That is clearly just one example, but I do hope it illustrates the point - Allen -- R. Allen Wyke Chair, OASIS Emergency Management TC emergency-tc@earthlink.net
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