Who can issue CAP alerts?

["Bob Wyman" <bob@wyman.us>]

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    Please forgive me if I've missed something in the documentation and in my scanning of previous messges on the mailing lists...

    I'm curious about the expectations for who is permitted or expected to generate CAP alerts. For instance:

• Should the fire and/or burglar alarms in my building or home be able to generate CAP alerts if they are connected to a phone line or the Internet?
• If I'm driving a car which can make phone calls and has a GPS (i.e. like one of the OnStar systems), would it be proper for the car (or the monitoring agency) to generate a CAP alert when the air-bag fires or if there is some other indication of an accident?

    Basically, the question is: Is CAP only for formal agencies? Or, is it something that is expected to be broadly used?

 

        bob wyman