[EAS] New EAS Forum posting: A vision for what to do now that the FCC has eliminated the GMC

[Bill Ruck]

Ed,

You have made some very good points and I agree with all of them.

But I think you've got the sequence backwards.

NUMERO UNO should be training.  FEMA and everybody in the emergency 
services world needs to know what CAP is and how to use it.  CAP and 
IPAWS and EAS needs to be fully integrated into incident management.

Training costs money which nobody has these days.  I would much 
rather see FEMA fund training than hardware.

The issue from my perspective is the broadcast engineering world is 
at the end of the chain.  Attention and funding needs to focus on the 
beginning of the chain.

Once we have the emergency services world using CAP the rest becomes 
icing on the cake.

Bill Ruck
Curmudgeon
San Francisco