+1 to Rich's note: I agree we need to be careful not to extrapolate our
experiences/devices/preferences to the average person. Emergency alerts serve a
valuable purpose, especially when something like a wild fire or tornado or
whatever is approaching and an extra few seconds or a minute of advance warning
is the difference between life or death. There are many situations where a
smartphone may not be present and/or where the person for example is too young
to own one.
So yeah, to answer the original question, I think a lot of platforms probably
will need to support emergency alerts over the next 10 years. As the reach of
traditional broadcast channels for those alerts declines, it seems natural and
good for society to shift to the channels that have attention. Of course, the
devil is in the details but I'm sure thoughtful engineering, UX design, and
administrative rules can be devised to make it effective and not annoying. ;-)
Jason
On 3/10/19, 10:23 AM, "NANOG on behalf of Rich Kulawiec"
<nanog-boun...@nanog.org on behalf of r...@gsp.org> wrote:
A side point:
On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 02:04:33PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
> Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), i.e., mobile phone alerts, are less than
10
> years old. And mostly on the high-end expensive cell phones and the most
> expensive carriers. People on NANOG may use mostly expensive smartphones,
> but not everyone can afford smartphones.
That's an excellent point that's often lost among people who work in
our industry. Not everyone is so wealthy as to afford the luxury of
a smartphone. And not everyone can use one. And not everyone wants one.
The first two items also happen to describe the people who are most
vulnerable to disasters and have the most difficulty getting assistance
recovering from them: the poor and the elderly.
---rsk
