[OASIS Issue Tracker] (EMERGENCY-146) ETL: Rewrite opening paragraph of 2.7

Jacob Westfall created EMERGENCY-146:
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             Summary: ETL: Rewrite opening paragraph of 2.7
                 Key: EMERGENCY-146
                 URL: https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/EMERGENCY-146
             Project: OASIS Emergency Management TC
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: EDXL-CAP 
            Reporter: Jacob Westfall


The opening paragraph of 2.7 should be updated with this rewritten text.

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Since the inception of the CAP standard, event term usage in the <event> element in CAP based systems around the world has evolved to be wide ranging and varied. Alerting authorities, and their CAP originators, have fallen to a number of differing practices that makes comparisons of the <event> element values extremely difficult. The list below is not a complete list of these practices but does demonstrate various interpretations and aspects of the larger problem of assigning an event term in CAP.



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