[EAS] FW: IPAWS EAS feed scheduled outage

[David Turnmire]

I appreciate getting the heads-up about this outage.  And as a broadcast 
engineer, I know things sometime take longer than expected.  And I know 
that this is a "work in progress".  Still...

I would like to think that one of the "works in progress" would be to 
implement the type of robust system and procedures such that "updates" 
can be done without shutting the whole thing down for several hours.  If 
we shut down EAS for a planned outage in my city or in my corner of the 
state, the odds of an emergency occurring in that area at that time are 
pretty low.  Shut it down for the entire country, and the odds that 
you'll miss a critical alert get much greater.

Of course, we still have the legacy system to fall back on (usually)... 
but at the least CMAS apparently got shut down.  And over time we'll 
have more and more dependency on IPAWS.  So IMHO, we need a system that 
has non-collocated systems with separate ISPs (and DNS servers), such 
that you can update one system while relying on the other system to keep 
us operational.

Does anyone know if the above level of robustness is "in the works"?  
And if so... a rough idea about time line?

Dave