[EAS] 6th FCC report and order on EAS

[Edward Czarnecki]

I think this "can't be trusted" discussion is taking a few things out of
context.

The information in the ETRS is confidential.  To grant access to even a
portion of it to an third party (eg SECC) would require substantive redesign
of the electronic portal, to limit access to presumptively sensitive info.

The FCC did include some clunky language in the R&O:

"32.	We also do not adopt the suggestion that, because the ETRS database
will be used to construct the EAS Mapbook, State Emergency Coordination
Committees (SECCs) must be granted access to the ETRS beyond that envisioned
by the presumptively confidential nature of ETRS filings.   It is not
feasible to provide SECCs with such access without compromising the
confidentiality of EAS Participant's filings, or risking that the SECC might
unintentionally delete or corrupt a filing..."

So, compromising confidential is pretty clear, and the FCC probably should
have stopped right there.  As far as unintentionally or accidentally
altering an electronic filing, well ... stuff happens.  And, imaging if a
filing got altered, and the licensee got dinged by the FCC ... and then they
track that back to a third party (e.g. SECC).  That's gonna be a problem for
somebody ... lawyer time. 

So, I don't think the FCC was slapping the SECCs in this section.

I read a few things in the R&O that could have been phrased better.  And I
wish other recommendations from CSRIC had made it into the R&O.  But, I
didn't see anything in this order that was an stab at anyone.

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

Rich--
I think the concern that SECC's "can't be trusted" has to do with the fact
that the FCC has received very few EAS Mapbooks which satisfy their
requirements. Putting together something that meets the FCC standards isn't
easy--although it wouldn't take much to come up with such a document for the