Re: [earlywarning] What problem is ATOCA trying to address?

'course CAP should just borrow PIDF-LO and thus be able to send an alert
about the hospital at 123 Main (that is, a civic "where").

Thanks for the info, should be a useful update of CAP/EDXL.

Brian

On 3/26/10 11:15 AM, "creed@opengeospatial.org" <creed@opengeospatial.org>
wrote:

> Apologies for the slight digression. Not to be contentious, but CAP is
> only part of the application payload solution. Other countries are using
> other encodings instead of CAP (such as SMS) or are using additional
> application solutions in addition to CAP (such as GeoRSS or GeoSMS).
> 
> Something also to be aware of WRT CAP. The OASIS EM TC has defined a set
> of requirements for an enhanced OASIS "where" model (geographic) that will
> be encoded as a GML application schema. The plan is to be consistent with
> the PIDF-LO geodetic GML schema as well as GeoRSS GML. This work adds
> additional geometries and other elements such as multipoints. These
> requirements were provided by the CAP implementation community and will be
> incorporated (perhaps by extension) in CAP 2.0 and future revisions of
> EDXL.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Carl
> 
>> It is not clear exactly what problem ATOCA is trying to solve.
>> 
>> The first item needed for alerting is a common alerting message. This has
>> been defined as the CAP protocol which has been adopted by ITU. The
>> current version is CAP 1.1 and version 1.2 is expected soon.
>> 
>> The second item needed is transport of CAP messages. Various techniques
>> already exist and Brian Rosen has already introduced a draft into ECRIT to
>> define how to deliver CAP via SIP.
>> 
>> The third item is distribution of the alert information. Various
>> techniques already exist such as multicast, cell broadcast, MBMS, EAS,
>> CMAS etc..
>> 
>> The fourth item is authentication and authorization of the alert
>> origination. The functionality is country specific and these countries
>> also have defined methods and procedures to address this.
>> 
>> So what item remains to be addressed by ATOCA?
>> 
>> <--------------------------->
>> DeWayne Sennett, AT&T Services, Inc.
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