Dear Craig, Many thanks for elaborating on the UN cluster approach. Although the cluster approach is "work in progress" I would like to advocate here very much for using UN standards and terminology for our ontology. It is good that countries like USA, New Zealand etc. have their national approaches. However, the worst disasters/man made emergencies in the past did not happen in those countries, but in areas where local governments were usually overwhelmed, hence mandated the UN to help out and take the lead. Based on a number of deployments and lessons learned exercises the IASC is working on a humanitarian reform (http://www.humanitarianreform.org/), which includes the cluster approach. To summarize, those are in my opinion the standards our ontology should be based on since they are world wide prevalent. Kind regards, Soenke -- GMX FreeMail: 1 GB Postfach, 5 E-Mail-Adressen, 10 Free SMS. Alle Infos und kostenlose Anmeldung: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freemailReceived on Saturday, 23 June 2007 11:45:33 GMT
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