[EAS] DIRS

[Richard Rudman]

DIRS is the disaster reporting system set up by the FCC after Katrina.

http://transition.fcc.gov/pshs/services/cip/dirs/dirs.html

DIRS stands for Disaster Information Reporting System. The site has a button so communications providers, broadcasters and others, can report problems and status. After Katrina, DIRS was set up to help with communications infrastructure damage assessment to help restore the communications infrastructure after damage. 

Quoting from the DIRS website:

DIRS is a voluntary, web-based system that communications companies, including wireless, wireline, broadcast, and cable providers, can use to report communications infrastructure status and situational awareness information during times of crisis.
If you are not already signed up, you should do so. If you are not in the line of fire for the immediate East Coast weather emergency, you will be impacted by some type of other serious emergency in the future where it might help.

CAP is centered on getting warnings to broadcast and other entry points -- not for pulling information from them. 

Short answer: DIRS is a good thing!

Richard

On Oct 29, 2012, at 6:51 AM, Edwin Bukont wrote:

> DIRS-

> What is this, why is this, and what exactly is required?  
> 
>Thank you

>Edwin Bukont CTS, CSRE/DRB, CBNT 

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