[EAS] FW: New Sage Update

[Ed Czarnecki]

It is a "digital cert thing" not so much an "IPAWS thing."  And to be fair
to FEMA IPAWS, they have provided the certs as soon as they got them from
their source.  For whatever reason, certs tend to be generated a month or
less before expiration date.

We're hoping we all can move towards an automated approach to certificate
updating (FEMA together with the EAS manufacturing community).  We
understand it's troublesome for the EAS community (whether it's one small
station with a contract engineer, or a major cable operation with hundreds
of sites to update).  It's also not so great for EAS manufacturers, who need
to defer other priorities, not to mention handle the hundreds of related
emails and calls.

Ed

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

The IPAWS cert in the DASDEC expires at the end of September, too.
My understanding is this is an IPAWS thing (not a Sage or DAS thing), and
IPAWS isn't giving the endec manufacturers much time to write and test their
updates (and the end users to install them) between when the new cert is
ready and the old one expires!