[CAP] Presidential CAP questiion

[matt hoffman]

Art is certainly the authority on this, but I'll second that impresson. 
I've worked on IPAWS-related prototypes implementing CAP interfaces, but 
I have never heard mention of any system that disseminated Presidential 
messages via anything other than the existing EAS framework.

Matt


Art Botterell wrote:
> Jim -
>
> I can't speak for FEMA, but I would expect that presidential messages will go from WACA to FEMA for distribution through the IPAWS framework to EAS, cellular and other dissemination media.  Of course, presidential alerts have been, to date, vanishingly rare.
>
> - Art
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>>>> "Jim Trawick" <JimTrawick at viaRadio.com> 10/15/2007 7:45 AM >>>
>>>>         
> Although there's been a lot of talk about the Presidential messaging
> possibilities in DEAS and at least three different versions of what that
> might be (PBS, NOAA and DHS variations, that I'm aware of), is anyone aware
> of a specific, currently available Presidential source (i.e., pre-empting
> all others, even those in progress, per various Executive Orders), which is
> available in CAP format (or any other digital, text-oriented format), and if
> so, what that current source might be, and through whom it might be
> currently available? Surely one must have been employed in the DMIS EAN test
> back in June.
>
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