Alert Interface Group (AIG)

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Alert Interface Group(AIG)

• Status Report to the Commercial Mobile Service
  Alert Advisory Committee
• May 16, 2007
• David Webb, AIG Leader

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Participants

• FEMA (Group Leader)
• Contra Costa County, California (Deputy Group
  Leader)
• Battelle
• The Weather Channel
• Spectra Rep
• Global Security Systems, LLC
• Association of Public Television Stations
• International Association of Fire Chiefs
• Florida Association of Broadcasters
• National Association of Broadcasters
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• National Association of State EMS Officials

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Status

• Current Status
• Decision to define requirements of the alerting
  format and protocols A on reference model
• Collaborated with UNG to derive opt-out criteria
  using urgency, severity and certainty
• Next Steps
• Consider Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) fields
  that will interface with the Alert Gateway most
  efficiently
• Methods and requirements to prioritize message
  type by urgency, severity and certainty if needed
• Recommend Alert Interface Trust Model

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Draft Conclusions

• New
• Collaborated with other Working groups to
  recommend using event code, location, expiration
  and instruction as a minimum message
• From March Meeting
• OASIS CAP is recommended as the message standard
  that will be used to submit warnings to the CMAS

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Milestones

• Next steps
• Alert authorization and security to PMG
• Personnel authorization to release messages
• Trust model specifications
• Geo-targeting specifications after input from
  CTG/AGG
• Final recommendations to PMG