Re: [earlywarning] [CAP] Definition of Warning Categories

[Tony Rutkowski <trutkowski at netmagic.com>]

Hi Hannes,
> Are there meeting minutes available from the workshop?
>   
All docs are at
<http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/ISS/Meetings/WIS-CAP_Geneva2009/DocPlan.html>
The output is Doc. 4.1
> What specific part do you think is disconnected from the "global
> ecosystem"?
User communities and implementors.  These are active, globally
distributed communities that seem to have their own networks of
communication and collaboration.  Many are not in the "West."
Even in West, they are stovepiped in different agencies and disciplines.

I appreciate the challenge, as my Q.4/17 standards group in ITU-T is
responsible for the international version of the CAP Standard, X.1303,
including the ASN.1 translation, and it's constantly a "wack a mole"
effort of keeping track of who is doing what.
> As we have learned already from the previous discussion about the emergency
> services categories there is no single overall community to talk to, as this
> community seems to be quite fragmented. From my citizen-to-authority
> emergency services experience I can tell you that you cannot create such a
> "single community" regardless of how much work you spend. 
>   
Yes and no.  The authority-to-citizen realm has been around for
many decades, and threads through countless generic and specialized
local, national, regional, and international bodies/agencies and
activities. 
You can't ignore them.   On the other hand, you don't want to spend
all of your efforts playing the liaison game and getting no work done.

Eliot Christian has spent the past several years facilitating US national
and now global coordination among these communities - especially with
respect to CAP use.  He works full time doing this in Geneva for one
of the core international organizations in this arena - WMO.  As he
indicated:
> WMO recently compiled responses to a questionnaire concerning 
> official alerting authorities. This should give us a database of 
> alerting authorities of the 132 responding nations. A WMO office 
> in China (Hong Kong Observatory) is putting that online. I imagine 
> we can use this as a seed for rationalizing among the various 
> official directories that exist at other international venues.
Seems like a good path forward.

--tony

-- 
Tony Rutkowski | Netmagic Associates LLC | Ashburn VA | mob: +1 703.999.8270