RE: [regrep] UK Govt regrep requirements

["Paul Spencer" <paul.spencer@boynings.co.uk>]

David,

I have raised the issue before, and you mentioned the CAM specification. It
was certainly not clear to me how this solves the problem. That is why I was
thinking of preparing something that went into more detail on the
requirement and current solution.

What I would hope to take away from that is not "regrep can do a part and
CAM does the rest" but *how* they can be used to do it. I suspect that
nobody not on these committees could do that from the information currently
available. Or, at least, not without three months work.

Regards

Paul Spencer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David RR Webber [mailto:david@drrw.info]
> Sent: 24 September 2003 15:42
> To: Paul Spencer
> Cc: regrep@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [regrep] UK Govt regrep requirements
>
>
> Paul,
>
> Following on from Farrukh's comments - the assembly requirements
> are certainly covered by the OASIS CAM specification and are
> designed to work with a registry as the numerous sample CAM
> templates illustrate.
>
> More information on CAM is available from:
>
>  http://cam.swiki.net
>
> and I would direct you specifically to the PPT slides showing
> the architecture for registry driven assembly that are
> available there.
>
> Thanks, DW.
> =============================================================
> Quoting Paul Spencer <paul.spencer@boynings.co.uk>:
>
> > Sorry I have not been as active here as I would like. For those
> who don't
> > know, I advise various parts of the UK Government on XML. Unfortunately,
> > nobody here is currently prepared to spend money on registries, but I am
> > working on this. My reason for joining this group was to represent UK
> > Government requirements in my spare time - something I have
> signally failed
> > to do so far.
> >
> > I recently did some work for the MOD here, spending two days
> turning their
> > core schema (a collection of complex data types) into a repository of
> > fully-versioned types from which schemas can be automatically generated.
> > This is linked to their existing data dictionary through IDs
> and ASP code.
> >
> > Whilst not a long-term solution, this has clarified the benefits of a
> > registry to parts of the MOD and elsewhere in Government and flushed out
> > some additional requirements. I now have permission to present on this
> > project and to talk to the regrep TC about it. I am currently
> preparing a
> > presentation that must be complete by October 14th. As part of
> a telecon, I
> > would be happy to make this available and talk through it.
> >
> > What I would like to get out of this is:
> >
> > * does the existing reg/rep spec meet this requirement?
> >
> > * if not, is the TC interested in this requirement for a future release?
> >
> > * Do any of the current implementations meet this requirement?
> >
> > Note that the MOD is a simple case of the general UK Govt requirement. I
> > imagine that the needs are common across most Governments - it
> will just be
> > that some don't realise it yet.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Paul Spencer
> > Director
> > Boynings Consulting Ltd
> > http://www.boynings.co.uk
> >
> >
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