Re: CAP / WARN / iPAWS

[Richard Barnes <richard.barnes () gmail com>]

There is also some work in the IETF on the more general problem of
distributing early warning messages:
<http://tools.ietf.org/wg/atoca>

Right now, they're taking a pretty layer-7 approach (distributing CAP
in SIP messages), but part of their charter is figuring out how this
application relates to things like iPAWS, CMAS, 3GPP PWS, etc.  So
they will likely end up looking at some layer-2/3 aspects of the
problem as well.

--Richard



On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jack Bates" <jbates () brightok net>
> >
> > What would be really awesome (unless I've missed it) is Internet
> > access to the emergency broadcast system and local weather services; all
> > easily handled with multicast.
>
> Ah, something I know something about for a change.  :-)
>
> In fact, there's some work in progress on this topic, Jack; FEMA is working
> on replacing the EAS -- which itself replaced EBS, and earlier, Conelrad --
> with a new system called iPAWS: The Integrated Public Alert and Warning
> System.
>
> At the moment, they're working on the "replace the EAS backbone" part of it,
> which work is about a year behind schedule, and everyone wants an extension,
> but there are other useful places to apply some effort.  I'm a designer, not
> a coder, so I've been piddling around in the part I'm good at; thinking about
> design.
>
> Some of the results are here:
>
> http://www.incident.com/cookbook/index.php/Rough_consensus_and_running_code
>
> and
>
> http://www.incident.com/cookbook/index.php/Alerting_And_Readiness_Framework
>
> and I invite off-list email from anyone who has suggestions to toss in the
> pot.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
> (I would like to subject-unthread this, but my mailer is too stupid.  Sorry)