Re: [earlywarning] comment on draft-rosen-atoca-server-discovery

Hi Martin,

please expand a bit on what you meant with the GeoRSS comment.

The reason for having GeoRSS mentioned in there is that GeoRSS is quite 
widely used for distributing alerts and there will always be different 
ways to distribute alerts.

Are you suggesting not to use GeoRSS?

Ciao
Hannes

On 15.07.2010 05:18, Thomson, Martin wrote:
> I like this.  It's simple enough that it could just work.
>
> GeoRSS seems like a doubling up.  You can already stuff a CAP alert into Atom.  That should suffice, since the CAP alert already contains information on location.
>
> Even using Atom leads to a double up on a number of parameters, like the originator (author) of the alert.  Both Atom and CAP provide fields for this.
>
> Care will be needed (specification) to ensure that this doesn't lead to un-interoperable implementations.
>
> The draft doesn't identify what aspects of the LoST extensions are useful.  I couldn't work it out either.  As far as I can tell, the extensions will at best be marginally useful.  Either way, this needs expansion.
>
> --Martin
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