Art Botterell — KD6O
Art Botterell is an emergency communications specialist with a long career in public warning and crisis communications interoperability.
He is the original designer of the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), the open data standard that carries alerts through the U.S. Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) and has been adopted by national warning systems in many countries. CAP was developed specifically to solve interoperability across heterogeneous alerting networks — a problem of a similar shape to the one this proposal addresses.
His emergency management career includes work at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES), and international consulting engagements including with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The common thread across those roles has been the operational reality of moving time-critical information between systems that were not originally designed to talk to each other.
He has held the callsign KD6O for many years and remains active in amateur radio. His interest in MeshCore is in its potential as emergency communications infrastructure — and in making sure that interconnection between regional meshes draws on the interoperability lessons this community has already learned, and those the broader emergency communications field has paid for in earlier generations of technology.