Decision
Status changed
Clear Range
The Stale Record
The decision changed. The public record did not.
More people act on the old status while publication lags a decision already made.
DEMONSTRATION SCENARIO
This is a demonstration scenario. It is not a live demonstration and does not report an executed result.
The situation
An activation or status decision has been made. A public page still shows the previous status.
People are being sent, or are acting, on a status the decision has already changed.
Why this is hard
A public status can be wrong because publication lagged a decision, because feeds never matched, or because phones are down. Those are not the same repair.
Reconciling external feeds, or restoring a phone network, should not count as publishing the decision that was already made.
What the operator can see
Gap
Published
Old status remains
At risk. People follow it
What V8Y must determine
V8Y must distinguish publication that lagged a decision from feeds that never matched and from phones that are down, and say what the public status must show before more people act on the old one.
What may happen next
More people act on the old status until publication catches the decision.
What counts as recovery
Not recovery
Success is not a website that loads.
Recovery
Success is that the published status equals the latest decision.
Observed results
No executed results are published for this thread.
What this evaluation would test
- Publication lag, not unmatched feeds.
- The decision already exists.
- People acting on the old status.
- Outdated flood maps are a different problem.
These are the conditions the evaluation would test. They are not reported results.
Operational basis
View operational basis and sources
Derived from Miami-Dade’s Hurricane Irma after-action account: the county website showed evacuation-center status that was not current, and residents were sent toward schools that were not officially open. The refresh interval here is synthetic, not a measured web delay.
Miami-Dade County. Hurricane Irma after-action report. 2017.
Related threads
Same symptom. Different cause.
The picture people will use is wrong
The Other View · Homeland CoordinationCompare with The Other View. There the platform is up and a cleaned internal picture disagrees with the record.
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