[sbe-eas] A Hearty Well-Done!

[Dan Mammone]

You mean the government entities actually took a step in the right
direction?? That alone is some feat! The confidence meter just deflected to
the positive a little.

Dan Mammone CBRE, CBNT
Broadcast Engineer
WMCO-FM/Orbit TV6
Muskingum University


-----Original Message-----
From: sbe-eas-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-eas-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of
Art Botterell
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 1:54 PM
To: SBE EAS Exchange - a mail list for discussion about the Emergency Alert
System and other emergency communication issues.
Subject: [sbe-eas] A Hearty Well-Done!

Mad props, as they say, to Gary Timm for throwing a flag on some lurking
technical issues in the CAP 1.2 specification.  I'm told the OASIS Technical
Committee voted today not to press ahead regardless, but rather to fix the
problem and accept a relatively small delay in finalizing the spec.  

By moving quickly to put SBE's concerns on record, and then collaborating
with the CAP community to find a simple and broadly-acceptable solution that
would involve the least possible delay, Gary may well have averted serious
difficulties for FEMA, IPAWS and thus, ultimately, for the broadcaster
industry.  The OASIS product is certainly much the better for his efforts.

- Art
_______________________________________________
sbe-eas mailing list
sbe-eas at sbe.org
http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/sbe-eas