[EAS] CMAS 101

[Ed Czarnecki]

Re-reading the CMAS article, an interesting point pops up.  The article says
"Acquire an IPAWS-compatible alert authoring software (see here for a list
of providers on the FEMA website)."  However, that brings you to a link of
vendors that have signed an MOA to be a developer to access the IPAWS-OPEN
Test Environment.

That list does NOT indicate that a developer actually has IPAWS-compatible
alert software, and more importantly, it does not indicate which vendors
have passed the IPAWS conformity assessments for alert originators.

The www.rkb.us website lists the IPAWS-compatible and IPAWS-conformant
origination vendors.  The IPAWS OPEN Developers list the article links to
does NOT provide that essential information.

The Aware Forum may want to look into clarifying that info in their article.
It is a very important distinction for technical and procurement reasons.

-----Original Message-----
From: eas-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On
Behalf Of Gary Timm

There has been discussion recently on this listserve regarding CMAS, the
Commercial Mobile Alert Service.  I wanted to direct your attention to a
good just-posted CMAS 101 primer written by my colleague Adrienne Gizicki on
AWARE Forum: http://www.awareforum.org/category/cmas/
Gary Timm

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