[EAS] WEA is not a super-tweet: NL Police warnings about football match

[Botterell, Arthur@CalOES]

Sean, unless I'm mistaken the Dutch system predates both CMAS/WEA and was based on the 3GPP cell-broadcast specification, which later was also adopted in implementing WEA.  Indeed, there were folks advocating for adoption of cell-broadcast here in the States, and citing the Netherlands example, years before the 2006 WARN act mandated creation of what has become WEA.

The dozens of repeat NL-Alert messages sounds like a processing foul-up, not unlike what happened in Pennsylvania... or, to recall the canonical example, like the 1971 "wrong paper-tape" EAN.  (Few stations actually activated... here's an aircheck from one that did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu4r79l8P8I).

Another reminder that power doesn't guarantee infallibility.

Art
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From: EAS <eas-bounces at radiolists.net> on behalf of Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com>

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 The ETSI, european standard, for cell-broadcast alerts are based on the U.S. ATIS CMAS
standards. 
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