RE: [emergency] FW: Suggestion: Add incidentKeyword tocontentObject

Mark

I am working on creating a National level Alerting system. The more “non” Distribution elements we put in the EDXL Distribution Element the more likely a organization might try to use them for routing and message could be misrouted or rejected.

Additionally, I am trying to use set theory to validate distribution aggregation/dis-aggregation. Adding addition element which some organization uses for classifying messages causes the number of validation matches to increase significantly and creates significant delays delivering life saving time-sensitive warning messages.

David E. Ellis

Information Management Architect

(505) 844-6697

From: Mark Carlson - Conneva, Inc. [mailto:conneva@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 3:18 PM
To: Ellis, David; patti.aymond@ieminc.com
Subject: Re: [emergency] FW: Suggestion: Add incidentKeyword to contentObject

David,

I am not able to post messages to the group so will just reply to you and Patti.

My proposal was to add an incidentKeyword with valueListURN/valueList pair that would be used to classify the incident, not to use the valueListURN/valueList pair to identify the incident. If it makes sense to have incidentID and incidentDescription, then adding a way to classify the incident also makes sense and adds value. I am working on a resourcing application in which different business logic / routing rules will apply based on incident type. Sure, I can design a contentObject payload that contains incidentID, desription and keyword information, but as the ID and description are already present in the DE, that is counter-intuitive. I'm not convinced incident fields belong in the DE, but if they do, then a way to categorize the incident seems necessary.

Regards,

Mark Carlson

On 1/28/06, Ellis, David <dellis@sandia.gov> wrote:

As you can see, the green IncidentID and incidentDescription have not functionality in either explicit of Pub/Sub distribution. In fact, if we could predict incidents in advance and add them to a valueListURN/value pair for determining distribution during incidents, the TC should go to Las Vegas and win enough money to retire

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