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Subject: Re: [emergency-msg] About cap:event_cat
Have you put any thought on creating a generic mechanism, so that each of these options (well, 1 - 3 anyway) are nothing more than use cases of that mechanism? In short, give it a voice box and allow the implementor's to decide what language they want that voice box to speak. Birds of a feather flock together, so the concerns of fragmenting the space might not been too bad. Just a chip in the table, to see if it sticks - Allen On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 20:44, Art Botterell wrote: > Friends - > > Having wrestled with this item for some time in conversation with a > number of folks, I've been unable to locate a comprehensive and > universal categorization of alert-worthy events. Maybe the best we > can hope for is one that's conventional. Here are four options: > > > OPTION I - Adopt the scheme developed for the Disaster Help Portal: > > - biological: an intentional or accidental disaster event caused by a > biological agent such as anthrax. > - chemical (Used For: poison, pollution, toxic, hazmat, > contamination): an intentional or accidental disaster event caused by > a chemical agent such as a poisonous gas. > - civil (Used For: refugee, riot, war) > - disease (Used For: epidemic, pandemic) > - drought (Used For: climate, water) > - earthquake > - electric utility (Used For: power outage, blackout) > - explosion (Used For: bomb) > - fire (Used For: wildfire, forest fire, urban wild-land interface) > - flood > - food (Used For: famine) > - gas utility > - hurricane (Used For: tropical cyclone, typhoon) > - internet (Used For: cyber crime, cyber attack, cyberspace) > - landslide (Used For: avalanche, mudslide) > - nuclear > - ocean or coastal (Used For: iceberg, tsunami, coastal hazard, algal bloom) > - oil spill > - radiological (Used For: nuclear reactor, dirty bomb) > - severe weather (Used For: blizzard, dust storm, hail storm, heat > wave, lightning, storm, snow storm, wind) > - space (Used For: asteroid, geomagnetism, magnetic storm, space weather) > - terrorism > - tornado > - transportation (Used For: airplane, highway, ship, train, aircraft) > - volcano > > (A long list, a bit of a mixed bag of causes and effects, but at > least it stands on an honorable precedent.) > > > OPTION II - Use the twelve Emergency Support Functions (ESFs) as > defined in the Federal Response Plan: > > 1 - Transportation > 2 - Communications > 3 - Public Works and Engineering > 4 - Firefighting > 5 - Information and Planning > 6 - Mass Care > 7 - Resources > 8 - Health and Medical > 9 - Search and Rescue (yes, I'm cheating a bit here, since ESF-9 is > actually "Urban Search and Rescue" but that strikes me as possibly a > bit too restrictive for our purpose.) > 10 - Hazardous materials > 11 - Food > 12 - Energy > > (This would shift the focus from the nature of the event to the > response systems which might be engaged. It's relatively compact.) > > > OPTION III - Stick with (or fine-tune) the existing list from > previous CAP drafts: > > "Geo" - Geophysical (inc. landslide) > "Met" - Meteorological (inc. flood) > "Safety" - General emergency and public safety > "Security" - Law enforcement, military, homeland and local/private security > "Rescue" - Rescue and recovery > "Fire" - Fire suppression and rescue > "Health" - Medical and public health > "Env" - Pollution and other environmental > "Transport" - Public and private transportation > "Infra" - Utility, telecommunication, other non-transport infrastructure > "Other" - Other events > > > OPTION IV - Dispense with this item altogether. That would leave > automatic filters with the geographic targeting and the > Urgency/Severity/Certainty cube, but it would make it harder to > implement specialized alerting functions. (Then again, are > specialized alerting functions a solution or a problem?) > > > Your thoughts? > > - Art > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: emergency-msg-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org > For additional commands, e-mail: emergency-msg-help@lists.oasis-open.org -- R. Allen Wyke Chair, Emergency Management TC emtc@nc.rr.com http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/emergency
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