Re: [emergency] CAP in Taiwan

Elysa -

 

I think there is a slight misunderstanding. The Taiwan disaster community 
is not misusing CAP in a legal sense. They have extended CAP as required to use 
national CRS. I am suspecting they used the appropriate extension mechanism. 
They are quite good at correctly following international standards. They 
implement OGC/ISO standards quite well and follow them very closely. We did not 
have time to “dig” into the actual profile. I was there for other business and 
this topic just happened to be part of a presentation. 

 

Some are thinking of using CAP for non-alerting/notification messaging. 
While this may be fine, these few folks are thinking of CAP as a more general 
messaging encoding for more complex applications for which something like NIEM 
is more appropriate. 

 

I did not mean to stir the pot!

 

Cheers

Carl

 

 

From: Elysa Jones 

Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 4:35 AM

To: 'Carl Reed' ;  

Cc: 'Dee Schur' 

Subject: RE: [emergency] CAP in Taiwan

 

Hi 
Carl,

 

Thank 
you for your notice on this.  I hope they will join our Committee for 
guidance and insight.  I am copying Dee Schur so she will reach out to 
them.   I also replied to Art’s message and copied OASIS Legal for 
direction regarding certain uses/mis-uses of the Standard.  

 

However, 
on the comment you make in your last statement, I do not agree.  CAP is a 
very capable Standard for everything from Sensor alerts to notifications.  
It is being used for messaging applications beyond alerting with tremendous 
success.

 

Cheers,

 

Elysa 
Jones, Chair OASIS

Emergency 
Management Technical Committee

Emergency 
Interoperability Member Section

 

 

 

From: 
 [mailto:] On 
Behalf Of Carl Reed
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2014 6:05 
PM
To: 
Subject: [emergency] 
CAP in Taiwan

 

Dear TC 
-

 

Last week I had the opportunity to 
visit the Taiwan National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction 
(NCDR). They provided a presentation on 2015 development plans. They are looking 
to integrate the use of CAP into their alerting infrastructure. They have 
developed a Taiwan profile for CAP – partly driven by the need to support 
additional coordinate reference systems (CRS) beyond WGS 84. I suggested that 
they join the OASIS discussion on the current CAP revision requirements and 
thoughts. Some in the Government also want to use CAP for messaging applications 
beyond alerting. I suggested that would probably not be a good idea given the 
original requirements and use cases for CAP.

 

Cheers

 

Carl Reed, PhD
CTO and 
Executive Director Standards Program
Open Geospatial Consortium
www.opengeospatial.org

The OGC: 
Making Location Count!

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