[EAS] The words we use

[Botterell, Arthur@CalOES]

That's true, Adam.  At the same time, one of the things I've learned from experience is that frequently the requirement is to alert SMALL groups of people, and that's where the "granularity" issue comes to the fore.  

There are very few alerting scenarios that require notifying everyone in a county,  much less everyone in a multi-county metro.  There are many that only involve alerting everybody in a few square miles or even a few blocks.  

This is one of the reason emergency agencies flocked to telephone notification systems even if they had to spend their own money... the "reverse 9-1-1" technology allowed very tight and precise targeting of message delivery, so that people who weren't affected by a situation wouldn't be calling their city councilmembers or county supervisors the next day complaining about the "unnecessary" interruption.

When all we had was EAS, everything looked like an EAS application.  But those days are past.

Art

PS - To Bill's question... I think EAS will always be required for the Presidential mission, and I think PEP is the core of that solution.  But we need to stop deluding ourselves that it's a good fit for state and local needs.
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From: EAS <eas-bounces at radiolists.net> on behalf of Adam Jones <adam.jones at trilithic.com>

No one can reconcile political boundaries :) , however weather polygons to station coverage, to FIPS codes isn't a massive undertaking.

The need for EAS regardless of the method of transport or device receiving doesn't go away.  In fact as people become more dependent on tech and less dependent on each other, the need to effectively alert large numbers of people grows in importance.

Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: EAS [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Barry Mishkind

At 10:01 AM 9/5/2017, Bill Ruck wrote:
>There is no way to reconcile weather polygons, broadcast station coverage, and political boundaries.

        Ding ding ding ding!!!

        So ... should EAS be killed?
        Or, is there still a use going foward?

        How do you see that use?