RE: [dsaw-program] FW: Working Programme Document

[Eliot Christian <echristian@usgs.gov>]

At 10:49 AM 7/26/2006, Dee Schur wrote:
>Hi Richard,
>I agree that given our claim that this is an extention of the work of the
>Tampere Convention, 

I don't recall who may have made that claim, but I don't think we should 
endorse it. The Tampere Convention concerns specific agreements, mostly 
dealing with coordination of requests for telecommunications capabilities 
among parties to the Convention. It only comes into force after really 
major disasters, and it does not deal with public warning, per se. Also, 
the United States is not a party to the Tampere Convention, so it would 
be odd to have so many U.S. speakers if our ITU Workshop were an extension 
of the Tampere Convention.

Eliot