The town I grew up in, and the next town are connected by a road (shocking, unusual, I know). There was an 8 month period where the police departments and politicians all agreed that there should be a way to pass high urgency alerts back and forth, in case there’s someone fleeing along that road, or anything like that.
It was eventually decided that the viable ways were:
a desk agent would fax over a document and call to notify/confirm about the event.
one department would have to replace some substantial portion of their IT system so it could work with the other system.
they could pay for a custom solution, maybe.
They settled on option 1, and it worked. Every time I hear politicians talk about sharing information across organizations, I think back to a working meeting with two vendors going down a list of protocols and standards, eventually deciding there was no common ground. It’s been made difficult, and no one in the industry appears to want to fix that.
The town I grew up in, and the next town are connected by a road (shocking, unusual, I know). There was an 8 month period where the police departments and politicians all agreed that there should be a way to pass high urgency alerts back and forth, in case there’s someone fleeing along that road, or anything like that.
It was eventually decided that the viable ways were:
a desk agent would fax over a document and call to notify/confirm about the event.
one department would have to replace some substantial portion of their IT system so it could work with the other system.
they could pay for a custom solution, maybe.
They settled on option 1, and it worked. Every time I hear politicians talk about sharing information across organizations, I think back to a working meeting with two vendors going down a list of protocols and standards, eventually deciding there was no common ground. It’s been made difficult, and no one in the industry appears to want to fix that.