Presented by Eliot Christian at the EMERGENCY ALERTING POLICY WORKSHOP

Presented by Eliot Christian <[email protected]> at the

EMERGENCY ALERTING POLICY WORKSHOPMontreal, Canada, 1-3 May 2012

OASIS, ITU, WMO,Environment Canada, Public Safety Canada,

Centre for Security Sciences (Canada)

Summary of Prior CAP Workshops:

2006, 2008, 2009, 2011

Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012) 2

Prior CAP Workshops

Workshop and Demonstration of Advances in ICT Standards for Public Warning (OASIS and ITU) Geneva, 2006

CAP Workshop (WMO, OASIS and ITU) Geneva, 2008

CAP Workshop on Identifiers (WMO, OASIS and ITU) Geneva, 2009

CAP Implementation Workshop (WMO, OASIS and ITU) Geneva, 2011

http://www.oasis-open.org/events/ITU-T-OASISWorkshop2006/proceedings.php



http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/ISS/Meetings/WIS-CAP_Geneva2008/DocPlan.html







2006 - Workshop and Demonstration of Advances in ICT Standards for Public Warning (Topics)

WMO World Weather Watch and Public Warning U.S. DHS - Emergency Interoperable Standards Efforts CAP Alerts in the Google Earth Infrastructure World Health Organisation CAP for Hazard Warning in Sri Lanka Cell Alert Harmonization A CAP-based Warning System by WorldSpace Public Warning in Washington State Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System Efforts Toward Global Tsunami Warning European Commission Activities


2006 - Workshop and Demonstration (Actions)

Coordinate actions to ensure standards-based

all-media, all-hazards public warning is part of essential ICT infrastructure

Publish CAP as ITU-T Recommendation Promote CAP in new communications Promote deployment of CAP Encourage “Best Practices” for CAP,

especially for use in developing countries Invite ITU Member States to give high

priority to public warningLink to the 2006 Workshop Documents



Prior CAP Workshops

Workshop and Demonstration of Advances

in ICT Standards for Public Warning (OASIS and ITU) Geneva, 2006





2008 - CAP Workshop (Topics)

OASIS EM TC, WMO Public Weather Service, WMO Disaster Risk Reduction, ITU emergency telecomm

Canada, Japan, Sweden, United States EUMETSAT and GEONETCast Alert Channel,

MeteoAlarm, European Commission projects Blackboard Connect, CellCast Technologies, ESRI,

Google, and Warning Systems Incorporated CAP technical issues: compliance with semantics,

services, versions and profiles CAP best practices: text in Description and Instruction

elements; moving threat zones between updates; Updates and Cancels

Internationally agreed list of alerting authorities


2008 - CAP Workshop (Actions)

CAP technical matters for OASIS EM TC (Emergency Management Technical Committee)

Need for globally unique identifiers in CAP

How to carry CAP messages over the WMO Global Telecommunications System

Making the case for CAP readily understandable

Link to the 2008 Workshop Documents



Prior CAP Workshops







2009 - CAP Workshop on Identifiers

Written contributions: "Draft Principles and Framework for CAP Identifiers“, ITU-T Liaison Statement on use of object identifiers (OIDs)

Discussions included: general requirements of identifiers; distributed versus centralized management; long-term reliability of identifier registrars; availability of tools for discovering information associated with any given identifier

"Draft Implementors Note on Harmonizing Certain Identifiers in CAP Implementations"




Alerting in the

ISO/ITU OID Tree

http:/www.oid-info.com/get/2.49.0

http://www.oid-info.com/get/2.49.0


Register

entries linked

to a country

http:/www.oid-info.com/get/2.49.0.0

http://www.oid-info.com/get/2.49.0.0


U.S. entry in the OID tree

http:/www.oid-info.com/get/2.49.0.0.840

link to US entry in the Register


Administrative Procedure for Registering WMO Alerting Identifiers

http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/amp/pwsp/documents/AIR_PWS-20.pdf


Prior CAP Workshops







2011 - CAP Implementation Workshop (Topics)

Register of Alerting Authorities CAP Implementation progress –

Anguilla, Australia, Canada, China, Europe, India, Japan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, U.S.

CAP Support in open source freeware -ESRI GeoPortal, Google, Sahana


2011 - CAP Implementation Workshop (Actions)

Translation of CAP introductory video Update Register of Alerting Authorities CAP Implementation Handbook

(update ITU-D Handbook) Automated translation of messages Common vocabulary for types of events Common logo for CAP feeds Request WMO to continue sponsoring

CAP Workshops



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