[132942] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CAP / WARN / iPAWS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Barnes)
Thu Dec 2 22:34:52 2010
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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 22:34:37 -0500
From: Richard Barnes <richard.barnes@gmail.com>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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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. =A0:-)
>
> In fact, there's some work in progress on this topic, Jack; FEMA is worki=
ng
> 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 extensi=
on,
> but there are other useful places to apply some effort. =A0I'm a designer=
, not
> a coder, so I've been piddling around in the part I'm good at; thinking a=
bout
> design.
>
> Some of the results are here:
>
> http://www.incident.com/cookbook/index.php/Rough_consensus_and_running_co=
de
>
> and
>
> http://www.incident.com/cookbook/index.php/Alerting_And_Readiness_Framewo=
rk
>
> and I invite off-list email from anyone who has suggestions to toss in th=
e
> pot.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
> (I would like to subject-unthread this, but my mailer is too stupid. =A0S=
orry)
>
>
