Re: automagic notifications and coordination...

Hi William,

I didn't imply that this necessarily required a connection to the  
outside world, it could be a standalone Sahana server that maintains  
radio call signs and satellite phone numbers (in addition to normal  
communication methods) to be used when traditional communications  
infrastructure fails, and provides a manual list with tickboxes to be  
checked off after each sat/radio call is made. Or we may be able to  
use packet radio...

There are many different types of events, and they all have different  
impacts on infrastructure (e.g. a pandemic the communications  
infrastructure will still work, it just may suffer heavier than  
normal loading). Just because communications channels are  
unavailable, it doesn't mean that you should stop maintaining  
communications directories - in fact when you have flakey  
communications, a good and up-to-date directory with a variety of  
channels identified is critical.

Sahana is being designed to handle all these circumstances, and works  
happily as a self contained server - independently of communications.

Cheers Gav

On 20/06/2007, at 08:41, William Waites wrote:
> Nifty indeed, however in practical scenarios it is important to  
> address
> infrastructure that would normally be used for this sort of thing that
> may not be available.
>
> Simply a caution about depending too much upon infrastructure that may
> disappear the moment it is needed...