[EAS] The words we use

[Richard_Rudman]

The "One Size" line sometimes attributed to me was never intended, at least by me, to describe emergency public information content. Others, namely Barry Mishkind have used it but I never interpreted his use as being much different than my own.

If you want me to create an analogy for my view of CAP, we could say that it was designed as "Stretch Pants" so a CAP message could be parsed to "fit" the needs of different warning systems.

I loved the capability that was realized within CAP as an open, non-proprietary internationally accepted standard that a warning center could use to input information to a system once. Then, each warning path/system to end users used by that warning center could take as much or as little information as its "size" permits to relay.

So in this way, CAP can be made to fit every "size" from Twitter to IPAWS and beyond.  So in this sense, one size can fit all.

I will of course defer to Art to ignore, vet, or rebut my "Stretch Pants" analogy.

Richard

>On Sep 5, 2017, at 9:17 PM, Botterell, Arthur at CalOES <Arthur.Botterell at CalOES.ca.gov> wrote:

>>I predict it will not be ONE SIZE FITS ALL.

>OK, that's become a bit of a slogan... "don't fence me in," and all that.  On the information content side of things it turns out to be factually incorrect, as noted above.  And on the technological side it confuses the issue of technological diversity with some fuzzy analogy to "size."