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Subject: Re: [emergency] FW: Inter-Governmental Information SharingStandards: Meeting March 8
Friends -
In support of comments by Rex and Len... I wonder if we're in danger
of letting ourselves get bogged down in other folks' turf battles and
grand schemes to the detriment of the specific job we've taken on.
Per Len, I'm not sure that a degree of diversity is necessarily a bad
thing, considering the relatively early stage such standards efforts
are really at, and that we have a mechanism (namespaces) for
preventing confusion until the user base / marketplace sorts things
out.
And per Rex, I'm not sure that either determining the One True
Vocabulary or harmonizing multiple standards efforts is really within
this TC's scope. Ultimately, only the practitioners can resolve the
long-standing questions of interdisciplinary nomenclature.
Personally, I'd be inclined to leave those questions to policy-level
groups like the EIC and, of course, to the responsible agencies
themselves (e.g., the NIMS Integration team).
In particular, I'm not sure a full-scale comparison of CAP, EDXL and
GJXDM (and IEEE 1512?) is really our job. We've agreed to address a
specific set of requirements, which include a fairly specific example
vocabulary. In the interests of making tangible progress, might we
be wiser to limit ourselves to searching other standards for existing
equivalents to the particular items in the EDXL Routing Block
requirements as provided by FEMA and EIC?
All these larger issues do need attention, at the appropriate time
and in the appropriate venues... but I'm suggesting that this TC may
get more done by "sticking to our knitting" than by letting ourselves
be embroiled into other people's issues.
- Art
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