[EAS] Blue Alerts Are Back

[Botterell, Arthur@CalOES]

Is that a "So's your old protocol!" response, Sean?  Anyway, I'm not aware that anyone makes the decision to broadcast or not based on the CAP Category or ResponseType value.  

As for Severity, I think "Severe - Significant threat to life or property" is probably best in line with Amber guidelines, as would be "Observed - Determined to have occurred or to be ongoing"  But again, those are usually treated as threshold values, so the only failure mode would be if someone coded  such an alert as "Moderate - Possible threat to life or property" or below, or as "Likely - p >~50%" or below.

Those descriptive details are quoted from the OASIS CAP specification.  That they aren't visible to users in many origination software packages is, of course, lamentable.  But these are specifics that certainly COULD be taught.

Art