On 3/12/19 4:52 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
On Tue, 12 Mar 2019, Michael Thomas wrote:
What's with perpetuating the thought that it needs to be in the bios?
It's
just a normal app on a normal computer like Biff.
I know, after working with network engineers in too many meetings.
As I keep repeating, for smart devices (Smart TVs, Smart Speakers)
emergency alerts should be part of the intelligent assistant mediation
layer (Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant). The specifics vary depending on
the smart device ecosystem. Its not part of the hardware bios. Its not
part of a third-party app. Its not part of the content stream. Most of
the intelligent assistant "smarts" live in a "cloud" in a bunch of
data centers.
On classic desktop computers, i.e. linux and windows, an emergency
alert handler is usually implemented as a daemon or background
process. Desktop computers would likely use a thick-client
implementation. There are several vendors that sell classic desktop
emergency alerting products. If you've ever been inside a Department
of Defense facility during one of their active shooter drills, its a
bit insane when all the alerting systems go off.
I would suggest a different UX for home users.
This seriously seems like something that needs formal standardization.
Not the exact UI of course, but how it's transported, what the nature of
the alert is (= prioritization), the security profile, location
information. Jason Livingood chimed in so maybe there's something up
that I'm just not aware of, but this strikes me as a pretty ietf-y kind
of thing since we already had to deal with e911, calea and all of that
for telephony... so there's some clue there.
One thing that does bug me a little are the privacy implications (ie, it
needs to know approximately where you are). But maybe with everything
else we do it's... yet another part of our brave new world.
Mike
