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• Success Tweeting Headlines from IPAWS-OPEN Alerts. Follow @dmopenstate if you want to be spammed during the upcoming demos. #

We used to advertise that DM-OPEN 2.0 would be released this summer and that its follow-on would be IPAWS-OPEN 3.0. We have changed our mind (with good reason). OPEN 2.0 will be IPAWS-OPEN 2.0. IPAWS takes full control of OPEN in mid September. Version 2.0 will be fully functional in terms of basic IPAWS architecture and will be used for IPAWS sponsored demonstrations, interoperability events, etc. OPEN version 3.0 will be needed for Cellular Mobile Alerting Services (CMAS), full compatibility with Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) version 1.2, and full compliance with the IPAWS Profile. Still, a lot of basic capabilities required for IPAWS can be done with OPEN 2.0. It can be used for text based Emergency Alert System (EAS) messages, National Weather Service Non-Weather Emergency Messages, and can be a basis for development by vendors of all types that wish to use a non-proprietary system and protocol for the exchange of messages that use Emergency Data Exchange Language Distribution Element (EDXL-DE) and/or CAP. (And do not forget that National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) Information Exchange Packages (IEP) make excellent content objects inside an EDXL-DE.)

Marck Lucero (FEMA) and I made a presentation to attendees at the World Conference on Disaster Management in Toronto in June about how IPAWS will be able to play in cross-border alerting and how we can use IPAWS-OPEN to connect to Canadian alerting infrastructure in a way that allows resilient connectivity between local authorities on both sides of the border. It is a 17 minute presentation in Quick Time format.

I have been offered three separate work opportunities in the last two weeks. All good. All interesting. If I were concerned that the OPEN “thing” was in trouble I would be gone. But I remain confident in success. I am a believer, but more importantly I am seeing results. Successful Production Readiness Review this week. Yes it will happen.

IPAWS at NAB

Spent April 10-15 in Las Vegas at the Annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) annual convention. What a huge event! And what a success for IPAWS! We showed that you can write CAP messages using a variety of input software and they can be auto-delivered by the IPAWS aggregator prototype (DM-OPEN) to an wide variety of Emergency Alert System (EAS) Broadcast devices, radios (to include NOAA weather radios), and specialized software of many kinds. I was even auto-tweeting the headlines of CAP messages retreived from the aggregator. It all works folks. Kudos to the whole team: IPAWS folks, vendors, and broadcasters. We are on our way.

• Finished up 2 days of rehersals and testing for the IPAWS booth at the NAB show in LasVegas. Sucess!!! #
• IPAWS Profile CAP, DM-OPEN as IPAWS Aggregator, one origin source message to all kinds of EAS devices an Radios through RDBS. It works #
• Lots of success for the IPAWS program at the NAB show!!! Demos on demand and nearly flawless. IPAWS-OPEN works with EAS devices. #
• NIEM recognized OASIS CAP in IPAWS. A basis for Real improvements to EAS and alert dissemination for the U.S. In action live at NAB show. #

• Will post demo-only IPAWS Alert Headlines from the NAB show in Las Vegas beginning today and all next week. Follow @dmopenstate to see!! #
• IPAWS NAB Test Alert, DEMO Only … Evacuation Order … Evacuate Pharoah Hotel and vicinity … Potential Explosion #

• RT @trevbhatt so i decided to post that poem. http://guruoftheclan.blogspot.com/. I #
• @JamieXML I loved Ada (the language, that is). The countess of Lovelace was not bad in her day either. in reply to JamieXML #

• @trevbhatt so publish it somewhere in reply to trevbhatt #
• Redeye home from Scottsdale. ATIS CMAS meeting went well. Progress. #

• DM-OPEN 2.0 this spring. IPAWS-OPEN 3.0 next year. Real standards based interopable warning!!! #