scope:

The scope of this Standard is the definition of the interface between the Federal Alert Gateway and the Commercial Mobile Service Provider (CMSP) Gateway for WEA alerts. Any processing in either the Federal network or the CMSP network that is not related to this interface is beyond the scope of this Standard.

Purpose

This Standard is based upon the five Reports & Orders issued to date by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in regard to the Wireless Emergency Alerts [Refs 9, 22, 24, 48 and 51]. Modifications to this Standard may be required as future relevant Reports & Orders are released by the FCC.

The Federal government will perform the function of aggregating all state, local, and Federal alerts and will provide one logical interface to each CMSP that elects to support WEA alerts.

The purpose of this Standard is to define the interface between the Federal Alert Gateway and the CMSP Gateway for WEA alerts.