Eliminate multiple Infos altogether

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    • Type: Improvement
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • Priority: Major
    • Component/s: EDXL-CAP
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      Refactor the CAP object model to allow only one Info block per Alert.

      (It might also be desirable to give the Info block a unique identifier so multiple Alerts could take the same Info to multiple destinations... and perhaps to attach a "targeting" version of Area to Alert so the Info/Area block could unambiguously describe the causal phenomenon while the Alert/Area could provide geospatial routing information to the Alert "envelope.")

      This sort of fundamental refactoring would probably be a CAP 2.0 issue, but as noted elsewhere, nothing prohibits our doing both "maintenance" and "reboot" updates on parallel tracks.

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      Refactor the CAP object model to allow only one Info block per Alert. (It might also be desirable to give the Info block a unique identifier so multiple Alerts could take the same Info to multiple destinations... and perhaps to attach a "targeting" version of Area to Alert so the Info/Area block could unambiguously describe the causal phenomenon while the Alert/Area could provide geospatial routing information to the Alert "envelope.") This sort of fundamental refactoring would probably be a CAP 2.0 issue, but as noted elsewhere, nothing prohibits our doing both "maintenance" and "reboot" updates on parallel tracks.

      This is a more radical version of EMERGENCY-25: Even in the case of multi-lingual messaging the requirement (which is essentially administrative) could be met by issuing multiple CAP messages, each in a different language. This would simplify both implementation and operation by decoupling the workflows for different languages and generating a separate CAP Alert for each.

      Since relatively few message originators are fluent in all the languages required of them by their various local operating rules, those language-specific workflows are necessarily different; coupling them in the technology can lead to avoidable delays and complications.

      (The original design was informed by preconceptions and political pressures and I take full personal responsibility for its imperfections.)

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            Art Botterell (Inactive)
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