[EAS] USVI and PR: polygons versus political boundaries

[Botterell, Arthur@CalOES]

Gee, that's fascinating, Sean.  Can't say it qualifies you as an expert in the techincal or operational ramifications of public warning.  Let's see, though... did you have anything to do withe the carriers' insistence on devising their own variant format for the so-called 'C' interface between IPAWS and the CSMPs?

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

On Sat, 9 Sep 2017, Botterell, Arthur at CalOES wrote:
> Can't say I've heard of "U-Verse alerting" before.  As for the
> "industry functional requirement statements"... I'll confess I don't
> recall you from either CMSAAC or ATIS.  But that's not important.

Naw, I worked with the corporate lobbyists on the opt-out language
that ended up in the Warning, Alert and Response Network Act.  This was
before the CMSAAC or ATIS working groups. Ensuring the new alerting system
was optional for wireless carriers and consumers could choose to opt-out
was in the list of corporate functional requirements the team came up.

While I wasn't the first one to suggest a consumer opt-out, I kept
reminding the corporate lobbyists to ensure the consumer opt-out stayed in
the legislative language. The corporate lobbyists then worked with
Sen. DeMint and Sen. Stevens staffers on the final language. The language
was copied in the House bill, and eventually passed as part of the final
WARN Act.

The CMSAAC and ATIS standards work happened after those early decisions.
I changed jobs when that activity was happening (and there was corporate
merger), so a different person worked on those advisory committees.

The internal joke was the real job of the corporate representative on
an advisory group is making sure the advisory group never bothers the
people doing actual work inside the corporation.  I had to get
debriefed by the corporate government liason team everytime I came to
Washington, D.C. about what I could or couldn't say.

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