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Subject: RE: [emergency] CAP and Signatures/Encryption
At 5:04 PM -0600 1/27/05, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: >I don't think they will entertain chaos theory during an Incident of >National Significance. Certainly anyone who's ever managed a major disaster has had to come to terms with chaos theory.;-) Anyway, we're talking about planning and design, not response. And experienced emergency planners know to guard against being mesmerized by Worst Case Scenarios, which, paradoxically, are often much simpler than the much more common less dramatic ones. For just one example, in a WCS there's no ambiguity about whether the situation falls under emergency procedures or routine ones. In the vast majority of real-world emergencies, the transition from routine to emergency procedure ripples out only a limited distance through the involved organizations and jurisdictions, and over a period of time, which means that a significant number of transactions always occur between folks who are operating in emergency mode and counterparts who have different priorities. In thirty years in and around emergency management I can't think of any major operation I've seen where that mismatch of modalities didn't spawn difficulties. Don't get me wrong, I'm an original and enthusiastic supporter of NIMS, based largely on my experience in deploying essentially the same thing in California during the 1990's (it was called SEMS there.) The reason ICS works... and has been extended from the field level upward over three decades to its national expression in NIMS... is that it can be used continually in the world as it is, not only for an INS/WCS/RBD (Really Bad Day). Again, it would be convenient for us if we could make the simplifying assumption that we're only devising capabilities for a full-blown NRP-activating event... and I'm all for standardization where possible... but our day-to-day context is much broader. - Art
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