Re: [emergency] FW: Proposed CAP 1.2 Revision - Definition of <severity> Minor

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

I don't object. Since this message was posted to the TC list, 
everyone will have had a chance to review the idea before Tuesday's 
meeting.

Cheers,
Rex

At 11:36 AM -0700 4/24/09, Art Botterell wrote:
>I'd support Doug's suggestion.  An alternative might be to add a 
>"None" value for <severity>, but I'm not sure how often anyone can 
>flatly (and honestly) say that anything poses absolutely no threat 
>to anyone.  Doug's proposal would just clarify what I believe is 
>pretty much the existing usage.
>
>- Art
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>
>Art Botterell, Manager
>Community Warning System
>Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff
>50 Glacier Drive
>Martinez, California 94553
>(925) 313-9603
>fax (925) 646-1120
>
>>>>  <doug.allport@capan.ca> 4/24/2009 11:30 AM >>>
>OASIS Emergency TC
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>I'm a new OASIS member, and I would like to propose a change to the
>definition of <severity> "Minor" for inclusion in CAP 1.2. If I'm not
>following protocol, please let me know.
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>The change is as follows:
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>Current: "Minimal threat to life or property"
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>Proposed: "Minimal to no known threat to life or property"
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>Justification: CAP is being used in Canada for all alerts related to a major
>event including road closures, public service disruptions, shelters being
>opened, etc. These events have no known threat to life or property, leaving
>the issuer the choice of identifying it as a minor threat or unknown. I
>discussed this with Art a couple of years ago, and correct me if I'm wrong
>Art, but I believe we identified it as a small oversight for future
>consideration. I note that the original draft of CAP - Canadian Profile
>included a note that this was the case.
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>An alternative approach is to add another <severity> value, however, I
>prefer the change proposed.
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>Cheers,
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>Doug Allport
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>Executive Director
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>Canadian Association for Public Alerting and Notification (www.CAPAN.ca)
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>Doug.Allport@CAPAN.ca
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>(613) 271-1040
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>PS. As an introduction, and update on CAP in Canada, I note that I conceived
>and drafted the original Canadian Profile of CAP (CAP-CP), having had the
>honour of making the PPW motion (as a Trustee) to endorse and sponsor CAP
>for OASIS standardization (.and to get us out of Art's way!). I currently
>lead a team (which includes Jacob Westfall) that has defined a CAP "layer"
>specific to defining event location. Ex. Parameter values identifying point,
>line and polygon which define the event location. This layer is being used
>in a new provincial multi-agency situational awareness system (which I've
>been managing the development of) that captures alerts in CAP-CP and makes
>them available in GeoRSS (not promoted at this time, as system in early
>pilot mode during a flood event). This layer, along with CAP-CP Beta 0.3
>(completed earlier today), are to be available on the website of the
>Canadian Association for Public Alerting and Notification (www.CAPAN.ca)
>late next week.  I'll emphasize that I'm not an engineer, but did muddle my
>way through inventing and patenting the telephony alerting method once
>promoted by Bellcore/Telcordia, which was deployed by an ILEC here in
>Canada. I will be making a poster presentation on CAP-CP and this new layer
>at the World Conference on Disaster Management. We might also be
>demonstrating the new provincial system there. I hope I can add value to the
>great work of this TC!
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