Emergency Management Technical Committee R. Allen Wyke TC Chair 2003.05.22 Update

Summary Deliverable Update Notable Progress Next Steps

Deliverable Update Timeframe Item Status Q1 2003 Research standards and bodies Done Q2 2003 First draft of EM TC standard CAP v0.7 out – working on “written” part of standard. Q3 2003 Compliance suite and scenarios Publish best practices Q4 2003 Committee approval of first standard

Notable Progress Three subcommittees have been formed: Notification and Messaging (EM MSG) Infrastructure Framework (EM IF) Geospatial Information System (EM GIS) EM MSG Subcommittee has leveraged CAP (Common Alerting Protocol), which is at version 0.7 schema draft. Successful CAP workshop at annual PPW (Partnership for Public Warning) Conference.

Next Steps Draft “written” part of CAP standard. Begin designing CAP reference implementations. Initiate design of CAP compliance and scenario tools to assist implementors. Start working on CAP implementer's guide as reference implementations are being built EM IF to finalize Requirements document.