Public Comment

Comment from: 

Name: Art Botterell
Title: Consultant
Organization: incident.com
Regarding Specification: CAP 1.1

Currently CAP has no status value to distinguish actual-but-draft messages.

Many implementers have expressed a desire to provide users with a library of pre-drafted messages that can be edited for release.  

Also, some multi-agency coordination processes will require that draft messages be circulated for editing and approval prior to release.  (Note: in such cases the <note> element could be used for tracking a draft message's progress though the workflow.)

I'd propose adding a value to <status> of "draft" to denote alert messages that are either templates or drafts-in-work.  

- Art