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[Rex Brooks]

Hi Everyone, I wanted to mention that we surfaced an important deliverable that coincides with, and may be combined with the work on EDXL-DE that will support both the Adoption and RIM Subcommittees. That concept is the agreed (as in official) domain content models that Carl noted. Carl was responding to Dave's question about how OGC handles message info pertaining to data that may be associated with a message transmission for correctly interpreting factors (termnologies) that may be different depending on from whom the message is received and to whom it is intended (with particular emphasis on the pub-sub context). Carl noted that some communities, e.g. USGS, and European Emergency Management have accepted/approved Content Models represented by correct metadata as a means to ensure semantic interoperability. Carl also mentioned some specific places where such information could be found. Rex suggested that what would be helpful would be a web location (URL for a single registry website) where references-links to such Content Models could be maintained so that people and applications could find, navigate to and obtain, these models so that the models could be accurately cited and used in pub-sub and for other EDXL-DE related routing purposes. An unaligned, non-governmental body, such as OASIS would be a good place to put together such a registry, and the requirements for and specification of such a registry is a candidate work product Or deliverable for this SC, especially as an adjunct to the work on explaining EDXL-DE 1.0 in a cookbook or implementation guide, as well as gathering requirements for EDXL-DE 1.1. Dave also noted that the larger behind-the-scenes picture seems to indicate that there may be more support for supporting the development of an EDXL-Asset Tracking specification. Cheers, Rex -- Rex Brooks President, CEO Starbourne Communications Design GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison Berkeley, CA 94702 Tel: 510-898-0670