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

[Art Botterell <artbotterell at gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Hannes Tschofenig <Hannes.Tschofenig at gmx.net> wrote:

 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.

I think that's right.  Emergency services don't function as a separate community, but rather as a facet of the larger communities and cultures they serve.  Notions like "authority" and even "emergency" are constructed very differently in different places and in different contexts.

(For an example of how subtle and controversial even seemingly simple notions of emergency response can be, see my blog entry on standards of practice for public warning at <http://www.incident.com/blog>... I'm presenting it at the Natural Hazards Workshop in Boulder Colorado this week.  Note also that "public warning" in the tactical sense and "early warning" of significant events are themselves quite different topics.)

What we're really talking about here seems to be how to apply SIP to urgent one-to-many notifications.  Maybe if it were explicit that narrower, more technical goal would be more tractable.

- Art