[CAP] Presidential CAP questiion

[Art Botterell]

>>> "David Aylward" <daylward at comcare.org> 10/15/2007 2:01 PM >>>
>As to Presidential priority, I not sure we should always assume that the top person in the hierarchy has the most important message.

That is, of course, much more a political question than a technical one.  CAP treats priority as an attribute of the message, not of the sender.  (In addition, CAP unpacks the traditional vector notion of "priority" into a three-dimensional space bounded by Urgency, Severity and Certainty.)

But what we're talking about here isn't so much a matter of priority as it is a claim to a privilege of preemption.  Such a claim can be instantiated technically, but I don't think it can be either justified or refuted in technical terms.

- Art