[EAS] The words we use

[Botterell, Arthur@CalOES]

From: EAS [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Richard_Rudman
>I will of course defer to Art to ignore, vet, or rebut my "Stretch Pants" analogy.

Well, XML does stand for "eXtensible Markup Language"... not that CAP has always to be encoded in XML, but that's the most common usage.  So stretchiness is certainly a virtue CAP embraces.

I should warn you, though, that Harold Price recently described CAP as a pair of cargo pants, wherein decisions still sometimes must be made as to what to put in which pocket.  Personally I think that situation usually arises where back-compatibility is a concern... e.g., in the CAP encoding of messages bound for EAS or NWR... but I can't deny it's a vivid and apt way of saying it.  

And of course some cargo pants do have elastic waistbands, so the two metaphors aren't mutually exclusive.

Art