Presented by Eliot Christian at the EMERGENCY ALERTING POLICY WORKSHOP Montreal, Canada, 1-3 May 2012 OASIS, ITU, WMO, Environment Canada, Public Safety Canada, Centre for Security Sciences (Canada) Summary of Prior CAP Workshops: 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011

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

Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012) 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

Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012) 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)5 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) 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

Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012) 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)8 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) 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

Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012)10 Alerting in the ISO/ITU OID Tree

Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012)11 Register entries linked to a country

Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012)12 U.S. entry in the OID tree link to US entry in the Register

Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012)13 Administrative Procedure for Registering WMO Alerting Identifiers amp/pwsp/documents/AIR_PWS-20.pdf

Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal, Canada, May 2012)14 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) 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) 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