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Re: [emergency] CAP Visualization (was RE: CAP Developers'Forum...)

  • 1.  Re: [emergency] CAP Visualization (was RE: CAP Developers'Forum...)

    Posted 05-20-2004 12:52
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    Subject: Re: [emergency] CAP Visualization (was RE: CAP Developers'Forum...)


    Hi Jeff,
    
    There are a couple of ways I see that this can be handled. For the 
    immediate time being one can resort to out of band methods for 
    ensuring that the CAP feeds one arranges to receive by such out of 
    band agreements include <eventCode> as tedious as that might be. You 
    can also handle that by the stipulations you make in your security 
    policy using SAML and XACML. At the same time, by bringing it up in 
    the TC as a feature request for CAP 1.x-2.0 we can ask that it be 
    made a required field for a specific CAP provider profile within a 
    registration context which we can establish for that purpose. One of 
    the specific reasons for establishing an XML basis for a CAP message 
    type is to take advantage of the ability to make a subset or superset 
    of the basic spec. By providing a specific registration procedure for 
    different kinds of systems such as broadcast and web service 
    delivery, providers, intermediaries and receivers of CAP messages can 
    more easily connect up with each other for this purpose.  For web 
    services we can do this through WSDL in ebXML or UDDI Registries and 
    in practice through encrypted, signed SOAP messages. We can do this 
    now by building it into the message brokers we use and just insisting 
    that our partners support it, or find themselves unable to use our 
    offerings. That's not very feasible this early in the process of 
    promoting adoption, but it is one way to do it.
    
    Another thing just occurred to me. As part of an effort to establish 
    trusted networks, it would be wise to avail ourselves of an aspect of 
    the API services DMIS provides, and ask for some special 
    functionality to filter messages by how <eventCode> is handled, or 
    not. We are going to have a lot of issues like this, so we might as 
    well start tackling them now.
    
    Ciao,
    Rex
    
    At 7:12 PM -0500 5/19/04, Jeff Kyser wrote:
    >Hey Kwasi,
    >
    >Since <event> is a required field (of an <info>) but is
    >free text, and <eventCode> is optional and
    >system-specific, we're not left with much if we want
    >to filter messages based on event, are we?
    >
    >oh well.
    >
    >-jeff
    >
    >On Wednesday, May 19, 2004, at 05:45  PM, Speede, Kwasi wrote:
    >
    >>Jeff,
    >>
    >>Yes, we "fell back" on processing against system-specific <eventCode> values
    >>in the broker. <Event> was not appropriate for our purposes because multiple
    >>instances cannot be defined for a single message scenario.
    >>
    >>I am curious about the different approaches that are evolving or being
    >>proposed for determining who are the authorized CAP message originators
    >>across various implementation communities and how developers are intending
    >>to authenticate their messages when processing CAP. This topic would be a
    >>great addition for the implementers guide!
    >>
    >>Thanks all,
    >>
    >>Kwasi
    >>
    >>