Watch/Warning/Advisory/Statements in CAP NWS Partners Meeting

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Watch/Warning/Advisory/Statementsin CAPNWS
Partners Meeting

Herb WhiteOCWWS6/18/08
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Review Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)

• Non proprietary digital message format, based on
  XML, that provides for Interoperability in
  all-hazard warning
• Compatible with current geocoding schema (e.g.,
  NWR Specific Area Message Encoding and Emergency
  Alert System)
• Partnership for Public Warning
• Warning systems in the United States today are a
  patchwork of technologies and processes.
• Need to distribute warnings consistently over all
  available channels.

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CAP v1.1 NWS Update

• Continued progress on CAP 1.1 web based feeds
• Extensive partner coordination and input
• Partners encouraged better parsing/detail in lieu
  of faster schedule
• Experimental deployment expected this month
• PNS draft reviewed by partners last week
• Robust parsing and breakout of
• VTEC/UGC
• Description
• Robust use of geo tags
• Atom/XML indexes
• Use of index feeds in Atom format

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Other Current Activities

• Call-to-Action Markers in existing NWS
  Watch/Warning/Advisory/Follow-up Statements
• Needed to enable discreet CAP Description and
  Instruction elements
• Partner coordination and input resulted in
  improved markers
• Deployment in AWIPS OB9 1st quarter CY09
• Service Change Notice to be issued soon
• Documenting NWS CAP Profile
• Federal D/A Partners forming CAP working groups
  under IPAWS to work with emergency standards
  communities
• Including standards and profiles working groups

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Future Activities

• Incremental changes to CAP v1.1 Beta feed (late
  2008 and 2009)
• Wrap CAP in WMO-formatted product and push on
  text feeds (2009)
• Work with OASIS EMTC on CAP v2.0 development
  (18-24 month cycle expected)

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OASIS Membership

• Identified Level of Membership and funding source
• Membership agreement currently in review by Dept.
  of Commerce General Counsel
• NWS OCIO starting procurement process

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Contact InfoBob BungeInternet
Dissemination Officer, NWS OCIORobert.Bunge_at_noaa.
gov301-713-1381 x140Herb WhiteDissemination
Services Manager, NWS OCWWSHerbert.White_at_noaa.gov
301-713-0090 x146
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