[EAS] Time to make the LP daisy chain an option

[Mike McCarthy]

I don't think that is a foregone conclusion. NWR isn't part of the
nationwide system because it's not statutorily required or agreed to by
the various policy makers in their own silo's to integrate and harden
those thousands of facilities.  Largely because of funding squabbles every
congressional cycle followed by changes in cabinet level thinking.

Gosh, how long has it taken to get PEP to this point with only a hundred
or so stations/installations?

Remember, the goal of everyone between the official decision maker and the
public is to get "the message" by whoever originates it to the public.

Now, I do find some measure of mandatory message routing via FEMA
IPAWs/CAP to be a bit onerous and single point of failure in an event that
isolates a given area/region or can not be originated from the validated
servers at various EOC's and other command centers.

There has to be multiple ways to routing pico-watts of bits to the
megawatt ether bullhorns of the country. NWR is the next most
comprehensive relay system. The problem is anything using wire (be it NWR
or local station IP for CAP) for the last mile is equally fragile as
PEP/daisy chain given well known last mile reliability.

If NWR can be delivered by satellite, that eliminate the last mile wire
problem.  But it will be costly....

MM

On Thu, September 5, 2019 8:22 am, Dave Kline wrote:
>
> Furthermore, we have determined in this forum and elsewhere that NWS is
> not, nor should they be apart of the national alerting system. This begs
> the question:
>
> Why do those states that require NWS as an EAS source do that if we never