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OASIS, ITU, WMO, Environment Canada, Public Safety Canada, Centre for Security Sciences (Canada) Summary of Prior CAP Workshops: 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011 Presented by Eliot Christian <echristian@usgs. gov> at the EMERGENCY ALERTING POLICY WORKSHOP Montreal, Canada, 1 -3 May 2012 Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012)

Prior CAP Workshops Ø Workshop and Demonstration of Advances in ICT Standards for Public Warning (OASIS and ITU) Geneva, 2006 Ø CAP Workshop (WMO, OASIS and ITU) Geneva, 2008 Ø CAP Workshop on Identifiers (WMO, OASIS and ITU) Geneva, 2009 Ø CAP Implementation Workshop (WMO, OASIS and ITU) Geneva, 2011 Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012) 2

2006 - Workshop and Demonstration of Advances in ICT Standards for Public Warning (Topics) Ø Ø Ø Ø 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 World. Space Public Warning in Washington State Ø Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System Ø Efforts Toward Global Tsunami Warning Ø European Commission Activities Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012) 3

2006 - Workshop and Demonstration (Actions) Ø Coordinate actions to ensure standards-based all-media, all-hazards public warning is part of essential ICT infrastructure Ø Publish CAP as ITU-T Recommendation Ø Promote CAP in new communications Ø Promote deployment of CAP Ø Encourage “Best Practices” for CAP, especially for use in developing countries Ø Invite ITU Member States to give high priority to public warning Link to the 2006 Workshop Documents Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012) 4

Prior CAP Workshops Ø Workshop and Demonstration of Advances in ICT Standards for Public Warning (OASIS and ITU) Geneva, 2006 Ø CAP Workshop (WMO, OASIS and ITU) Geneva, 2008 Ø CAP Workshop on Identifiers (WMO, OASIS and ITU) Geneva, 2009 Ø CAP Implementation Workshop (WMO, OASIS and ITU) Geneva, 2011 Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012) 5

2008 - CAP Workshop (Topics) Ø OASIS EM TC, WMO Public Weather Service, WMO Disaster Risk Reduction, ITU emergency telecomm Ø Canada, Japan, Sweden, United States Ø EUMETSAT and GEONETCast Alert Channel, Meteo. Alarm, European Commission projects Ø Blackboard Connect, Cell. Cast Technologies, ESRI, Google, and Warning Systems Incorporated Ø CAP technical issues: compliance with semantics, services, versions and profiles Ø CAP best practices: text in Description and Instruction elements; moving threat zones between updates; Updates and Cancels Ø Internationally agreed list of alerting authorities Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012) 6

2008 - CAP Workshop (Actions) Ø CAP technical matters for OASIS EM TC (Emergency Management Technical Committee) Ø Need for globally unique identifiers in CAP Ø How to carry CAP messages over the WMO Global Telecommunications System Ø Making the case for CAP readily understandable Link to the 2008 Workshop Documents Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012) 7

Prior CAP Workshops Ø Workshop and Demonstration of Advances in ICT Standards for Public Warning (OASIS and ITU) Geneva, 2006 Ø CAP Workshop (WMO, OASIS and ITU) Geneva, 2008 Ø CAP Workshop on Identifiers (WMO, OASIS and ITU) Geneva, 2009 Ø CAP Implementation Workshop (WMO, OASIS and ITU) Geneva, 2011 Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012) 8

2009 - CAP Workshop on Identifiers Ø Written contributions: "Draft Principles and Framework for CAP Identifiers“, ITU-T Liaison Statement on use of object identifiers (OIDs) Ø 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 Ø "Draft Implementors Note on Harmonizing Certain Identifiers in CAP Implementations" Link to the 2009 Workshop Documents Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012) 9

Alerting in the ISO/ITU OID Tree http: /www. oid-info. com/get/2. 49. 0 Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012) 10

Register entries linked to a country Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012) http: /www. oid-info. com/get/2. 49. 0. 0 11

U. S. entry in the OID tree link to US entry in the Register Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012) 12 http: /www. oid-info. com/get/2. 49. 0. 0. 840

Administrative Procedure for Registering WMO Alerting Identifiers http: //www. wmo. int/pages/prog/ amp/pwsp/documents/AIR_PWS-20. pdf Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012) 13

Prior CAP Workshops Ø Workshop and Demonstration of Advances in ICT Standards for Public Warning (OASIS and ITU) Geneva, 2006 Ø CAP Workshop (WMO, OASIS and ITU) Geneva, 2008 Ø CAP Workshop on Identifiers (WMO, OASIS and ITU) Geneva, 2009 Ø CAP Implementation Workshop (WMO, OASIS and ITU) Geneva, 2011 Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012) 14

2011 - CAP Implementation Workshop (Topics) Ø Register of Alerting Authorities Ø CAP Implementation progress – Anguilla, Australia, Canada, China, Europe, India, Japan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, U. S. Ø CAP Support in open source freeware ESRI Geo. Portal, Google, Sahana Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012) 15

2011 - CAP Implementation Workshop (Actions) Ø Translation of CAP introductory video Ø Update Register of Alerting Authorities Ø CAP Implementation Handbook (update ITU-D Handbook) Ø Automated translation of messages Ø Common vocabulary for types of events Ø Common logo for CAP feeds Ø Request WMO to continue sponsoring CAP Workshops Link to the 2011 Workshop Documents Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012) 16