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spec: Emphasise the capability for revocation of earlier alerts
Modelling carried out for NHSX ("Effective Configurations of a Digital Contact Tracing App: A report to NHSX") suggests that an important factor in the effectiveness of any contact tracing approach is the ability to provide fast alerts of self-reported symptoms combined with the ability to subsequently revoke the alert if a test proves negative. This is already supported by the CX protocol, since an alertLevel will supersede any earlier reported alertLevel and there is already a defined alertLevel of no-alert(0). Emphasise this ability within the cover page bullet points (replacing the point about immediate deployability, since there is no more space on the cover page). Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <[email protected]>
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README.md

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ability for users to distinguish between self-reported symptoms and
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medical test results.
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- **Revocable diagnoses**: a negative medical test result can
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supersede initial self-reported symptoms, allowing alerted users to
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minimise unnecessary time spent in isolation.
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- **Distributed contact identification**: users can identify only
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their own hazardous contacts, and no central authority has access to
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the information required to identify contacts.
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- **Immediate deployability**: the protocol may be implemented as an
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app on existing Android and iOS devices, with no requirement for
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changes to the core operating system.
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- **Interoperability**: the protocol may be implemented by any device
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and as part of any app, with all apps and all devices able to
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benefit equally from the same distributed data set.

spec/cx.lyx

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\begin_layout Itemize
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Distributed contact identification
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Revocable diagnoses
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: users can identify only their own hazardous contacts, and no central authority
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has access to the information required to identify contacts.
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: a negative medical test result can supersede initial self-reported symptoms,
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allowing alerted users to minimise unnecessary time spent in isolation.
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\end_layout
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\begin_layout Itemize
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\series bold
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Immediate deployability
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Distributed contact identification
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\series default
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: the protocol may be implemented as an app on existing Android and iOS
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devices, with no requirement for changes to the core operating system.
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: users can identify only their own hazardous contacts, and no central authority
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has access to the information required to identify contacts.
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\end_layout
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