The FCC should consider the security, confirmation and assurance and...
The FCC should consider the security, confirmation and assurance and delivery system compatibility of the common alerting protocol for the emergency alert system before implementing the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s recommended CAP EAS rules, said a petition to the FCC…
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filed by the Independent Emergency Alert System Stakeholders. The group is made up of officials from the state emergency communications committees of Nevada, Washington and California and the publisher of the Broadcasters Desktop Resource. They said views in the petition don’t necessarily reflect the views of those organizations. The petition highlighted 14 areas, many of them raised earlier in the docket by other parties, that the FCC should consider further before requiring broadcasters and cable systems be able to receive CAP v1.2 Standard formatted EAS messages. “If these considerations are not made part of the FCC certification of all new EAS equipment, it may be at best difficult and costly -- or at worst impossible -- to make necessary changes once equipment is delivered and installed,” the petition said.