Abstract: Public warnings intended for
transmission over the Emergency Alert System (EAS) can
be encoded in Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) messages in
various ways. A consensus among EAS equipment
manufacturers and warning practitioners regarding a
single recommended pattern for compatible encoding—the
“EAS-CAP Profile”—is documented along with a number of
related recommendations.
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