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 <[email protected]> at the
EMERGENCY ALERTING POLICY WORKSHOP
Montreal, Canada, 1-3 May 2012
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
Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012)
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2006 - Workshop and Demonstration of Advances
in ICT Standards for Public Warning (Topics)
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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
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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
Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, 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
Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012)
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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
Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, 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
Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012)
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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
Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012)
http:/www.oid-info.com/get/2.49.0.0
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U.S.
entry
in the
OID
tree
link to US entry
in the Register
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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
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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
Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012)
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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
Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012)
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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
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