The world “owes the MH370 families” access to the Inmarsat
MH370 data.
How are the MH370 families going to use the data? Would they accept it in ASN.1 format? If not, why not?
Miles’s Law comes to mind.
http://www.leadershipnow.com/leadingblog/2008/02/miles_law_and_six_other_maxims.html
Various people have called for release of the “raw data,”
the “data and the metadata” and the “basic data”. I have defined these terms in my blog at Data Definitions.
People in the know know that you need at least three levels
of “meta” to define data. FIPS 156
was a standard for an Information Resources Dictionary System (IRDS).
Details of the international IRDS series of standards are to be found in ISO/IEC 10027.
Interoperability is greatly facilitated by a shared
Technical Reference Model. The US
Department of Defense developed these as a part of the Corporate Information
Management (CIM) Initiative. A current
TRM is available at DOD_TRM_V0.4_10Aug.pdf.
Satellite Communications is shown in context in Figure 6 on
page 17 in the above reference.
