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

[<richard.hill@itu.int>]

Eliot,

You are of course correct, but I think that you are taking Dee's comment
out of context. Her comment concerned where in the program to place Bo,
the speaker on the Tampere convention.

Best,
Richard

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eliot Christian [mailto:echristian@usgs.gov]
> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 12:46 PM
> To: Dee Schur; Hill, Richard; dsaw-program@lists.oasis-open.org
> Cc: jane.harnad@oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [dsaw-program] FW: Working Programme Document
> 
> 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