[EAS] Proposed Error Reporting
Clay Freinwald
k7cr at blarg.net
Fri Jul 13 15:18:40 CDT 2018
Right on-Ron !
Let's hope that more will do as you suggest.
Clay Freinwald
Ron wrote -
To me it makes no sense at all in having FCC license holders themselves
report "errors", no matter what the final definition of "errors" becomes.
License holders should only be responsible for forwarding alerts if they
meet the criteria, not determining if they are in error.
Should a license holder ORIGINATE an alert in error, that could be
reportable as a mea culpa on the part of the licensee, but this would be
a very rare occurrence.
License holders in general should not, except under the most extreme of
circumstances, be originating alerts.
The previous statement does not include those who routinely originate
RMT's or other alerts (AMBER) as designated by their individual State Plans.
As much as it pains me to say this, initial error investigation and
reporting would probably be a responsibility best left to SECC's when
requested by the FCC.
The FCC created the SECC's and have been giving them more
responsibilities as time has gone on, this could be just one more.
The initial error investigation should entail where the alert came from,
when it occurred, and how it propagated.
The who, why, and other details should be undertaken by those with
greater authority who would in turn report their results to those who
can make a final determination and resolution.
I intend to submit the ideas expressed above as my response to the FNPRM.
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