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Subject: Re: [emergency] RE: Sample email to interested parties WRT geo enhancements to CAP
Alessandro - Thanks for the feedback. Much appreciated - and good catches! Carl ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alessandro Triglia" <sandro@oss.com> To: "'Carl Reed OGC Account'" <creed@opengeospatial.org>; <emergency@lists.oasis-open.org> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 10:15 AM Subject: RE: [emergency] RE: Sample email to interested parties WRT geo enhancements to CAP > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Carl Reed OGC Account [mailto:creed@opengeospatial.org] >> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 14:45 >> To: emergency@lists.oasis-open.org >> Subject: [emergency] RE: Sample email to interested parties >> WRT geo enhancements to CAP >> >> Hi All - >> >> We would like to get this email out to all interested CAP >> parties so that we can collect requirements and move forward. >> I originally sent this email in September and only heard from >> Rex. Other feedback would be appreciated. >> >> Thanks and regards >> >> Carl >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Carl Reed OGC Account <mailto:creed@opengeospatial.org> >> To: emergency@lists.oasis-open.org >> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 8:24 AM >> Subject: [emergency] RE: Sample email to interested parties >> WRT geo enhancements to CAP >> >> A bit tardy :-) >> >> First stab at a letter to interested party to collect >> additional requirements for geo enhancements to CAP and by >> extension to EDXL. >> >> Cheers >> >> Carl >> >> Dear < > >> >> CAP has now been widely implemented. As a result, we are >> beginning to receive considerable feedback regarding >> implementation experience, especially in the realm of >> requirements for enhanced capabilities to express additional >> (and richer) geographic elements. Some suggestions have been >> to allow additional coordinate reference systems in addition >> to WGS-84, the ability to encode point, line, and route >> features, and the ability to reference the output of a plume >> model have been suggested. > > Delete "have been suggested". > >> Therefore, in order to document a consistent set of >> requirements for potential enhancement or extensions to CAP, >> we are seeking your input and experience. Please note that we >> are not seeking input on how to change CAP or to implement >> changes in CAP. We are instead seeking either use cases or >> new requirements for using/encoding/referencing geospatial >> content in a CAP message. > > I find the sentence, "we are not seeking input on how to change CAP or to > implement changes in CAP", a little confusing. Enhancement or extensions > are changes, so in fact we *are* seeking input on how to change CAP. I > think you are saying that we don't expect people to tell us exactly how to > change the CAP text and schema, but we expect them to send us geospatial > requirements formulated in a general way. However, I think we should > allow > people to tell us what they want in the way they want--it will then be up > to > us to decide how to use the information we receive. I think that in some > cases it may be easier (more convenient) for someone to express a > requirement in terms of a suggested change to the current standard. That > doesn't mean that we will have to feel obliged to change the standard in > that precise way. So I think that, yes, we should request new use cases > and > requirements, but we should not limit the ways in which people may express > them. > > Alessandro > > >> >> Thank you for your help and consideration. >> >> Regards >> >> Carl Reed (CTO, OGC) >> OASIS Emergency Management TC GIS SC Chair. >> >> Carl Reed, PhD >> CTO and Executive Director Specification Program >> OGC >> >> The OGC: Helping the World to Communicate Geographically >> >> --------------------- >> >> This communication, including attachments, is for the >> exclusive use of addressee and may contain proprietary, >> confidential or privileged information. If you are not the >> intended recipient, any use, copying, disclosure, >> dissemination or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you >> are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender >> immediately by return email and delete this communication and >> destroy all copies. >> >> "The important thing is not to stop questioning." -- Albert Einstein >> "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in >> nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." -- >> Helen Keller >> >
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