[EAS] Silos continue - or not

[Sean Donelan]

On Wed, 18 Dec 2019, Barry Mishkind wrote:
>        I got a note from the FEMA:
>
> "We successfully turned up IPAWS support for WEA 2.0 at 3:28 this morning.
>
> The first WEA 2.0 message processed through IPAWS was a Snow Squall Warnings in central NY issued at 15:19 UTC:"

I didn't see NWS using any of the WEA 2.0/3.0 new features, e.g. longer 
warning text, additional special handling paramters, for the Snow Squall 
warnings. These look like the same CAP messages NWS has been sending for 
years.

I'm guessing why IPAWS declared success is because the CAP message was 
transformed by the IPAWS gateway into the new CMAC 2.0 XML schema for 
forwarding to the cellular service providers. That doesn't mean the 
message used any new WEA 2.0/3.0 capabilities.

On the other hand, the CBI's Blue Alert today did include new WEA 2.0 
special handling and CMAMlongtext parameters.  CBI sent the Blue Alert 
statewide. It didn't use the WEA 3.0 enhanced device based geolocation.

CBI appears to be using AlertSense as its alert origination software.
So I guess AlertSense gets bragging rights originating the first actual 
alert message using WEA 2.0 capabilties.