[EAS] Resolved- Nationwide AT&T Mobility 9-1-1 outage

[Botterell, Arthur@CalOES]

Thing is, there's no law of nature or rule of the Commission that requires WEA alerts to be categorized using SAME codes.  I think it was seen as a shortcut to defining the "imminent threat" qualification for WEA.  That distinction isn't as crucial as it used to be... we have the new "public safety message" inclusion, and in any event early anxieties about "catastrophic success".and networks pulled to their knees by excessive WEA use haven't panned out.  So now we can revisit the whole idea.

Anyway, you make my point, Adrienne.  The "legacy" analog EAS is the problem.  IPAWS is a funny name for a magic wand, but we need to look very critically at the barriers to its adoption, in the interest of retiring the analog system as soon as possible.

I know folks imagine that analog EAS is a valuable backup to all that digital stuff.  But the energy we invest in keeping it on life support extends the sort of problem we're discussing here.  The limits and vulnerabilities of IPAWS need to be identified and remedied, not used as justification for clinging to old habits.

Art
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From: EAS <eas-bounces at radiolists.net> on behalf of Adrienne Abbott <nevadaeas at charter.net>

Again, the problem is that WEA can only use certain Event Codes and when you
send a CAP EAS and WEA message, you are limited to only the Event Codes that
WEA accepts. When you send a CAP EAS activation, the viewer sees the entire
text of the message so it's a lot less scary than SAME where the only text
you see is "Civil Danger Warning". We are very lucky here that many of our
officials are CAP fluent but I'm not about to retrain them to send the same
message twice, once for a CAP EAS with the "TOE" Event Code and a second
time for a WEA message with the "CDW" Event Code. Common sense as well as
Common Alerting Protocol says you should be able to send both an EAS
activation and a WEA message in one operation. If you don't have access to a
CAP program, you have an entirely different set of issues.

Adrienne Abbott
Nevada EAS Chair

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From: EAS [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Sean Donelan

On Thu, 9 Mar 2017, Botterell, Arthur at CalOES wrote:
> Using CEM also avoids "scary" text crawls on legacy EAS equipment when the
audio or IPAWS message is missing.

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