Pilot Implementations of CAP in DOI

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OASIS, ITU, WMO, Environment Canada, Public
Safety Canada, Centre for Security Sciences
(Canada)
Summary of Prior CAP Workshops2006, 2008,
2009, 2011
Presented by Eliot Christian ltechristian_at_usgs.gov
gt at the EMERGENCY ALERTING POLICY
WORKSHOP Montreal, Canada, 1-3 May 2012
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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

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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

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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 warning

Link to the 2006 Workshop Documents
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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

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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

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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
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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

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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"

Link to the 2009 Workshop Documents
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Alerting in the ISO/ITU OID Tree
http/www.oid-info.com/get/2.49.0
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Register entries linked to a country
http/www.oid-info.com/get/2.49.0.0
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U.S. entry in the OID tree
http/www.oid-info.com/get/2.49.0.0.840
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Administrative Procedure for Registering WMO
Alerting Identifiers
http//www.wmo.int/pages/prog/amp/pwsp/documents/
AIR_PWS-20.pdf
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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

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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

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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

Link to the 2011 Workshop Documents