[EAS] Manual Relay and Immediacy

[Mike McCarthy]

You are accurate in the need to assess details....all of them. There are
weak links in any system which could be devised, be it wired, space
delivered, terrestrial wireless, or some combination. So one has to weigh
the various pluses and minuses.

My comments if not clear related exclusively to the hardware side and not
the mere fact it's based on IP (TCP-IP/UDP) formatting. The issue is the
overall macro system's physical robustness and survivability outside of
the government's hardened system(s) and networks. It's those "commercial"
facilities which will be prone to failure. Specifically those areas which
I prior mentioned.

Cheers....

MM

On Mon, August 22, 2016 2:59 pm, Dave Turnmire wrote:
> Mike,
> While there is certainly much truth in your comments, lets be careful to
> distinguish between the Public Internet and the Internet Protocol.  I know
> a number of states, including my own, are currently evaluating how to
> update our current "legacy EAS" based State Relay Network with one that
> essentially broadcasts the IPAWS CAP messages via other IP techniques...