[CAP] General CAP questions

[Jeremy Fee]

My understanding is that you need to control access yourself and the  
field is intended to inform users that do have access.

Jeremy Fee
Geologic Hazards Team
(303) 273-8632
jmfee at usgs.gov



On Sep 10, 2007, at 12:29 PM, Carl Charroux wrote:

> Hello,
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> I am creating an application to create CAP messages and am in need of
> some info.
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> Is there a place where I can find detailed documentation? I already  
> have
> the spec and I have a good idea about most of the information  
> required,
> but I have specific questions like...
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> When the Scope of an alert is set to Private, I know the user must
> supply in the Address field who has access to this message, but who
> handles the actual security of hiding the alert from other users?
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> Same question for Restriction alerts?
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> Are the rules handled by the reader application?
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> Any info/insight would be appreciated.
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> Thanks
>
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