Re: [earlywarning] [CAP] Definition of Warning Categories

[Art Botterell <[e-mail]>]

On Jul 12, 2009, at 7/12/09 3:58 AM, Hannes Tschofenig wrote:
> I was wondering whether there is somewhere a more verbose / more  
> complete
> description of the semantic of the individual values.

No, and that's deliberate.  Considering the high levels of uncertainty  
that so often surround emergent events, the CAP designers (first in  
the CAP Working Group and later within OASIS) struggled to balance  
completeness against specificity.  There was also a concern that we  
could get bogged down in trying to perfect the taxonomies and wind up  
with no standard at all.

So the definitions were deliberately left somewhat open-ended and  
contextual... some would go so far as to say "vague" and I, for one,  
wouldn't argue.

- Art