[EAS] Radio World: Fallout Over False Alert Continues

[Richard_Rudman]

Adrienne brings out some great points.

The Commission has an opportunity to take decisive action on this issue since we have to go by Part 11. I am still hopeful that FEMA and the FCC will wind up on the same page on this issue to minimize confusion. 

My 2 cents: The vendor stakeholders and the FCC need to work out box differences sooner rather than later.The Partnership for Public Warning's intent when we came up with the idea of the Common Alerting Protocol was that is should be an open, non-proprietary international standard to initiate warnings across different warning modalities, including EAS. 

Had we been able to keep the PPW going we might have been able to also make the point that our philosophy of CAP commonality and non-proprietary code should have been extended to hardware and origination software design features, ALL those features should conform with ALL the requirements outlined in Part 11, and all such hardware and software that implements CAP for public warnings should be lab certified by an independent entity as compliant.

Richard Rudman
(one of the 17 founding Trustees for the Partnership for Public Warning, Inc.)

On Oct 28, 2014, at 9:28 PM, Adrienne Abbott wrote:

> If the violation wasn't so egregious I would say Bobby Bones deserves an award for exposing a major fault in the FCC protocol that had been theorized by some and discounted by many...