RE: [emergency-comment] Request added wording for Addresses

Actually it was a comment for CAP 1.2.  It would apply to all CAP Messages


Gary A. Ham
http://grandpaham.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rex Brooks [mailto:] 
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 8:32 AM
To: Gary Ham; ;

Subject: Re: [emergency-comment] Request added wording for Addresses

Hi Gary,

I'm assuming that this is for the CAP-IPAWS Profile, so I am copying 
that list with this message, and we can discuss it at tomorrow's 
meeting.

Cheers,
Rex

At 6:44 AM -0400 6/1/09, Gary Ham wrote:
>This comment was passed to me from IBM's the design team at EADIS 
>team working on the new DM-OPEN interfaces. They would like to add 
>the following language:
>
>"(4) MAY also be used when <scope> value is "Public" to mean that 
>the contained addresses are required destinations, but that 
>retransmission to other addresses is allowed as necessary."
>
>Note that this change requires no change in schema and will not 
>affect other implementations of CAP, but will allow CAP messages to 
>be retransmitted when certain known addresses are required, but 
>there may be an unknown set of others who would also benefit from 
>the message.  This would also make wrapping a CAP Message in a 
>Distribution Element for retransmission a bit easier.
>
>R/S
>
>
>Gary A. Ham
><http://grandpaham.com>http://grandpaham.com
>703-899-6241
>Grandpa can do IT!
>


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