[EAS] Furthermore re: Fire

[Ed Czarnecki]

Or, you could just ask me, lol.

The PBS community had a "DEAS" system that used PID 911 (old FEMA pilot
project pre-dating even IPAWS).  That PID has since been reallocated for use
by WARN, and is still active.  The adjustment you mention relates to WARN
dissemination as a WEA backbone (moving from COTS products under DEAS to the
quasi-proprietary device under WARN).

No, this is not what is happening in Ohio.  See for example
http://www.tvtechnology.com/news/0002/triveni-das-team-on-ohio-digital-eas/2
78247. 

The OEAS system we helped design and integrate provides a resilient CAP
transport network, for when (not if) conventional Internet is disrupted.  

BTW, the specification we sponsored in ATSC 3.0 evolves beyond SCTE-18.

Ed

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

Let's keep these two things separate.  ATSC 3.0 contains (actually, it's
been part of ATSC standards for over 5 years) a transmitter to viewer
warning mechanism that will wake up receivers and provide the ability for
targeted (including polygon-defined) warnings  It is encapsulated into IP
datagrams. All good.