RE: [emergency] CAP 1.2 Vote for CS and OS ??

["McGarry, Donald P." <dmcgarry@mitre.org>]

My questions to the TC are this:
1. Is it better for DM-OPEN to just implement the workaround or for us to make changes to the 1.2 spec?
2. What are the specific technical concerns from ITU?
3. Regarding concerns with regards to non-repudiation, authorization and authentication: what are the specific technical shortfalls in this revision as it relates to actual implementations of a system?  Are those with concerns ok with tabling them until 2.0?


-Don
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-----Original Message-----
From: Elysa Jones [mailto:ejones@warningsystems.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:15 PM
To: emergency@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [emergency] CAP 1.2 Vote for CS and OS ??


Friends,

As you probably know there is a ballot open now for EM-TC members to vote for the CAP 1.2 Committee Specification and to ask OASIS Staff to begin the OASIS-wide vote to be held to promote this work to an OASIS Standard.  These are two separate ballots open now on our site.

As you may also know, Gary Ham ran into some problems with digital signatures and their use in OPEN using JAXB and the Oracle 10G SOA Suite.  There have been discussion on the list in the past few days about the issue.  Gary has stated the problem he (and Neil) has seen for which he has found an available work around.  Don McGary and Jocob Westfall have provided proof that the XML is correct and validates.  The three companies who made statements of use for CAP
1.2 have not seen a problem with their implementations.

So, here we are needing to get a vote approved to allow CAP 1.2 to go forward - or not.  I wanted to give a brief history of this work and begin any discussion the members have for discussion on this list.

The CAP 1.2 was required for the IPAWS profile to accommodate the CMAS program need for an "avoid" response type.  DMOPEN is the program that will be used to exchange CAP messages for CMAS as well as EAS and HazCollect specifically for IPAWS.

Our ITU friends have expressed concern with CAP 1.2 as they have members that see this as a major released and not a minor.  Update for CAP 1.2 is not likely right away from that community.

Our members that have expressed concern over CAP 1.2 with regard to non-repudiation, authorization and authentication anticipate these to be covered in the CAP 2.0 spec that will be aligned with the DE 2.0.

Please post any concerns you have about voting on the list so we can discuss them openly.  If you do not have concerns and are a voting member of the TC, cast your vote so that we will know where we stand.  Votes can always be changed until the cut-off on the 15th.

Regards,

Elysa Jones, Chair
OASIS EM-TC
CTO, Warning Systems, Inc.



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