[EAS] [sbe-eas] IPAWS OPEN failure

[Richard_Rudman]

Michael/Everyone:

What you said in your post makes a lot of sense. The wild card could be that the IPAWS OPEN flavor of CAP uses the internet as its transmission medium, and the new EAS boxes all generate log information and even emails that let us know when there is a polling interruption. 

I got a bunch of emails today from people asking what happened over the weekend when they came to work after the weekend, looked at their logs, and saw there was a polling outage that lasted more than a day. A lot of people will want to know officially what their logging burden is for IPAWS OPEN, if any. I would hope your take on it will be the way this should go. Since the outage did not impinge on a Monday test issued by FEMA, what you are saying seems to be the way this should settle out. 

Standard Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer nor do I play one on TV (or radio). When we are in doubt about such things, we should always check with our legal experts, if not the Commission itself. 

That said, hopefully this issue will be clarified in the way you suggest in the final version of the Part 11 rewrite.

Richard Rudman

On Sep 24, 2012, at 9:43 AM, Kluger, Michael wrote:

> .  Beyond that, I don't see why there should be any more of a requirement to log an outage in a CAP source than there is to log an outage in an over the air source.
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