[132907] in North American Network Operators' Group
CAP / WARN / iPAWS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Thu Dec 2 16:42:56 2010
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 16:42:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4CF80BFE.1090801@brightok.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- 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)
