Re: [emergency-comment] CAP support for Common InformationSharing Standard for Information Securit

["Art Botterell" <ABott@so.cccounty.us>]

I think Tim may have pointed us (at long last!) toward the correct approach to this recurrent concern.  

As I read it, this could be implemented to allow standardized attributes for classification level and other markings to be inserted in the <alert> tag to classify an entire message, or in an individual <info>, or even potentially at the level of other specific elements such as <parameter> or <resource>.  (It does depart from our traditional preference for elements over attributes, but given the inherently limited domain of these extensions I'm not sure that would cause much of a problem.)

I'm assuming that DHS, DoJ and IC usages are aligned with DoD practice here.  However, if other agencies (or other nations) needed to develop their own comparable schemas, it seems like those could be included as well, with or without our mandate.

Maybe some of our schema experts can double-check my understanding here.

- Art


Art Botterell, Manager
Community Warning System
Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff
50 Glacier Drive
Martinez, California 94553
(925) 313-9603
fax (925) 646-1120

>>> <Timothy_Dunlevy@emainc.com> 5/20/2009 12:58 PM >>>
I am the Chief SOA Architect for several DoD projects. One of these
projects
uses CAP v1.1 as the primary data representation for receipt and
transmission of alerts.

We have additional requirements to use the 'Common Information Sharing
Standard for Information Security Marking: XML Implementation' from the
Office of the Director of National Intelligence Chief Information
Officer
Release 2.0.3 dated 15 February 2006.

It would be a great advantage to include the above ISM extensions in the
CAP
schema. Is there any possibility of incorporating these extensions into
CAP.

Currently, we are using the <scope> and <restriction> elements in CAP to
contain this information but having the attributes defined by ISM
included
in the CAP schema would make processing CAP much simpler for the entire
DoD.

Thanks,

Tim Dunlevy



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