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Subject: Re: [emergency] The Modularization of CAP?


Beautiful - thanx.

On Jun 15, 2004, at 11:59 AM, Art Botterell wrote:

> At 9:03 AM -0400 6/15/04, R. Allen Wyke wrote:
>> Can you elaborate just a touch more on this though? I have a mental  
>> picture/definition of what a coordination language and/or profile is,  
>> but I want to make sure we are using those terms in the same way.
>
> I'd say I was using "language" to mean "a collection of semantic and  
> syntactic rules for communication in some topical domain," (the domain  
> in this case being "emergency coordination")... and "profile" to mean  
> "a specified subset of a language used for a particular purpose,"  
> (e.g., alerting.)
>
> Looking at this in terms of ICS, CAP was primarily designed to support  
> one aspect of the Public Information function; even in that narrow  
> domain there are other functions such as processing inquiries from the  
> media/public that CAP doesn't address.
>
> If we look at the Operations branch we find other communication acts  
> like giving orders, acknowledging orders, reporting status and  
> "throwing exceptions" (reporting exceptional conditions that are  
> preventing or impeding the execution of orders.  In Logistics we have  
> activities like assigning resources, reporting resource status,  
> forecasting resource status and availability, enforcing  
> maintenance/crew-rest rules and so on.  In Plans we have the  
> description of the current situation, the forecast of future situation  
> (sometimes in multiple scenarios), the forecast of resource  
> requirements and the recommendation of strategies (and I'm  
> oversimplifying here.)  And in Finance we have personnel timekeeping,  
> expense tracking and so on.
>
> So the language would (ultimately) have semantics and syntax  
> addressing these and other communication acts within emergency  
> management.  CAP would be one specified subset of the language for the  
> particular functions of alerting.
>
> - Art
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