[EAS] The words we use

[Sean Donelan]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2017, Botterell, Arthur at CalOES wrote:
> That's why we designed CAP based not on technology or on particular 
> hazards, but on the most consistent element of the warning system, which 
> is the psychology and sociology of the human recipients of alerts.

On the other hand, emergency PIO's don't like fuzzy when it comes to their 
messaging.  They want to know exactly how the message will be presented to 
the public.

That's one of the reasons emergency officials in Canada created the 
"Common Look and Feel" standards. CAP was just a transport protocol, not a 
public presentation standard.  Canada is now creating other "Common 
Look and Feel" for mobile phone alerting. Canada didn't use EAS event 
codes in its version of CAP, but still needed a coordinated set of event 
names for its CAP messages.

By the times all the parts of the alerting system are defined with enough 
specificity to be useful, its less about the specific transmission 
protocols and more about the overall system.