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    Posted 04-01-2004 20:31
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    Subject: RE: [emergency] Groups - ICS-201-draft0.2.xsd uploaded



    Uh oh, with all this agreement, can we call ourselves a standards group?
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    Rob Torchon
    Vice President, Engineering
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    Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>

    04/01/2004 03:33 PM

           
            To:        RTorchon@eteam.com, "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>
            cc:        emergency@lists.oasis-open.org, "'R. Allen Wyke'" <emergency-tc@earthlink.net>
            Subject:        RE: [emergency] Groups - ICS-201-draft0.2.xsd uploaded



    Yup, We are definitely having an epidemic of agreement today. Also if you look at NIMS-90, there's a bleep load of forms in there. That's why I said a data dictionary could be all that is really needed, with perhaps a table of equivalencies for organizational charts or roles/responsibilities and rights/permissions..

    Ciao,
    Rex

    At 2:11 PM -0600 4/1/04, RTorchon@eteam.com wrote:
    I don't feel it is the realm of this TC to specify display mechanisms. These forms can be accomplished in a variety of ways on the web( HTML, PDFs, xForm, java, active x, etc). Plus don't rule out any client side applications.

    Also, targeting just one form is really not a solution. ICS consists of a methodology and a medley of forms( and versions of the same form that are vastly different in some cases), some which relate to others and some which stand alone.  Together they make a system.


    We should retrench and make sure we all understand ICS and our approach in general. NIMS is sufficiently vague that the standard has yet to be defined.


    Rob



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    Rob Torchon
    Vice President, Engineering
    offc: (818) 932 0660 x220
    fax: (818) 932 0661
    cell: (805) 551-6232


    "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>
    04/01/2004 01:40 PM
         

           To:        "'R. Allen Wyke'" <emergency-tc@earthlink.net>
           cc:        emergency@lists.oasis-open.org
           Subject:        RE: [emergency] Groups - ICS-201-draft0.2.xsd uploaded




    I am saying don't normatively associate any spec with any other spec
    unless you have to.  That's all.  Don't let me confuse you because
    I don't have time to look into ICS.  I was responding to Rick
    being uncomfortable with specifying XForms.

    XForms is an explicit application language.  There are alternatives
    to implementing XForms so you should be uncomfortable with that choice.

    Is the process specification meant to be executable or
    only an abstraction of a process that can be implemented
    differently?  Do you *need* a process specification or is
    it informative material provided to help other implementors?

    Dare to do less in cases where doing more forces you to
    make choices for the implementors that they can better
    make for themselves.  Do more if the chances are good
    that without the extra work, the specification can't
    be implemented interoperably at all.  Be very certain
    about interoperation:  systems interoperate; data is
    portable.  So if you spec interoperations normatively
    you are designing the system, not the data.

    len

    -----Original Message-----
    From: R. Allen Wyke [mailto:emergency-tc@earthlink.net]
    Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 1:33 PM
    To: Bullard, Claude L (Len)
    Cc: emergency@lists.oasis-open.org
    Subject: Re: [emergency] Groups - ICS-201-draft0.2.xsd uploaded


    Ok, so are you agreeing or disagreeing with what I proposed? It sounds
    like you agree that we should not attempt to define an XSD (schema) for
    ICS 201, but then you mention preparing a process spec and not address
    the front end (GUI), which is what I *think* we can do with XForms. Or
    are you saying that even touching this with a 10 foot pole (ie: XForms
    too) is way to close?

    Just wanting to make sure I am not misunderstanding. Personally, I
    could go either way. I just know that I have a comfort issue with the
    XSD. Jury is out on the XForms idea - it was just a thought that I felt
    was better than defining an XSD.

    On Apr 1, 2004, at 2:25 PM, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:

    > I agree with Rick.  Don't open liaisons or set dependencies
    > on other specifications and standards unless absolutely necessary,
    > meaning, your specification can't be used without them.
    >
    > 1.  Your specification will be tied to the evolution of the
    >     other specification, and
    >
    > 2.  It might lose.
    >
    > len

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