[EAS] The words we use

[Richard_Rudman]

The short form for the premises I am starting from for this post are that we have:

1) CAP --a vetted international standard subset of XML
2) Part 11-- seen by EAS subject experts as non-specific about important parts of equipment capabilities, implementation and compliance
3) IPAWS [Integrated Public Alert and Warning System], a wonderful acronym for a fully fleshed concept that does not yet exist

I did see Harold's Cargo Pants analogy a while ago. 

Now, I have to apologize in advance for taking this thread in a different direction -- cargo pants standards.

The problem I have found with cargo pants is that sometimes you forget which pocket you put things in unless you have a system and the maybe even have labels for the pockets. There is no standard for cargo pants from different cargo pants makers.

Here we get into a potentially sensitive EAS area. The EAS box industry designing their unique brands of cargo pants (EAS boxes) and never really got together to agree on common standards on where their pockets are located, what size the pockets are, how they are fastened so things won't drop out and what should go in each pocket. Some even have pockets for things that no one else has pockets for. 

This was an unavoidable consequence of the FCC never requiring commonality on how EAS CAP boxes should operate, be talked to, talk to us, and, to a certain extent, how boxes parse and deal with what they receive.

Important Anti-Flame Note: I am in no way making judgements on relative merits of the EAS box manufacturers' implementations. All of them in my personal view have their own strengths. I will now go off to an undisclosed secure and bombproof location to await comments from the voices of the EAS box industry and others who post on this list. 

Richard

>On Sep 6, 2017, at 12:50 PM, Botterell, Arthur at CalOES <Arthur.Botterell at CalOES.ca.gov> wrote:

>....that Harold Price recently described CAP as a pair of cargo pants, wherein decisions still sometimes must be made as to what to put in which pocket.