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Subject: RE: [emergency] Public Warning in FCC Proposed Rule Making 04-296
I will also forward to the EIC to ask their members to consider comments to the NPRM that are due this week. Thanks, Elysa At 09:35 AM 1/1/2006, Tom Merkle wrote: >Eliot, >Thank you! I have forwarded this on to the National Public Safety >Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) so we can discuss this at our meeting >later this month. > > >Regards, > >Tom Merkle > >CapWIN: www.capwin.org >Phone: (301) 614-3720 >Cell Phone: (240) 375-1966 >Fax: (301) 614-0581 >e-mail: tmerkle@capwin.org > >CapWIN >6305 Ivy Lane Suite 300 >Capital Office Park >Greenbelt, MD 20770 > >-----Original Message----- >From: Eliot Christian [mailto:echristi@usgs.gov] >Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 9:34 AM >To: emergency@lists.oasis-open.org >Cc: Art Botterell; Peter Ward; Chris Warner; Jim Devine; >Gene_Whitney@ostp.eop.gov; David Applegate; Emily Wallace; Teresa >Fryberger; helen.wood@noaa.gov; ideloatch@usgs.gov; >kevin.briggs@dhs.gov; David Oppenheimer >Subject: [emergency] Public Warning in FCC Proposed Rule Making 04-296 > >Please encourage people involved in public warning to comment on a >proposed rule-making by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission: > > Emergency Alert System (EAS) NPRM - Docket 04-296 > Comment on whether EAS can be improved to be a more effective >mechanism for warning the American public of an emergency > >This proposed rule-making states: "We also seek additional comment on >what actions the Commission, along with our Federal, State and industry >partners, should take to help expedite the development of a robust, >state-of-the-art, digitally-based public alert and warning system." (see >also http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-262016A1.doc >) > >The deadline seems to be January 5. An upload facility for filing >comments is at http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/ecfs/Upload/ (linked from >http://www.fcc.gov ) > >Comments are solicited on the document available at >http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-05-191A1.doc > >This document contains, for example, the following statements: > > 67. Common protocols. The National Center for Missing & Exploited >Children (NCMEC) argues that emergency alerts should flow rapidly and >simultaneously through all available information conduits to first >responders and the public.[1] Should such a ubiquitous distribution be >a goal of a digitally-based alert system? Most commenters agree that in >order for a digitally-based alert and warning system to be distributed >simultaneously over multiple platforms, a common messaging protocol must >be adopted.[2] We seek comment on this assertion. SWN Communications, >Inc. contends that the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), endorsed by the >PPW and many public and private organizations responsible for alerts, >offers the most practical means of quickly creating an effective >interface between the emergency manager and multiple emergency alert and >notification systems to significantly improve national alert and warning >capability.[3] Should CAP be adopted as the common messaging protocol! > for a >ny future digitally-based alert system? Should we require the adoption >of CAP for EAS alerts? If CAP were to be adopted, would it allow >simultaneous distribution to radio, television, and wireless media such >as mobile telephones and PDAs? How would CAP be used to ensure >uniformity of alerts across such multiple platforms? For example, if >the White House were to issue a national message how would CAP >accommodate an audio message with a shorter, text-based message >appropriate for a PDA screen? > > >[1] National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) Comments at >11. > >[2] LogicaCMG plc (LogicaCMG) Comments at 15; NAB/MSTV Comments at >15-16; National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) >Comments at 3-4; RERC Comments at 9; SWN Communications, Inc. (SWN) >Comments at 2; Timm Comments at 7; Trilithic, Inc. (Trilithic) Comments >at 4; Cellular Emergency Alert Systems Association (CEASA) Reply >Comments at 3-4. > >[3] SWN Comments at 2. > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that >generates this mail. You may a link to this group and all your TCs in >OASIS >at: >https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that >generates this mail. You may a link to this group and all your TCs in OASIS >at: >https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php
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