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Subject: More CAP News!
Hi, I wanted to make certain that everyone saw Robin Cover's article below. This is another great time to request that you and/or your organization join the Emergency Interoperability Member Section, http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/emergency-ms/index.php. Your organization can affiliate by becoming a Supporting Entity to help fund the many initiatives going forward. This means that you can direct OASIS to allocate a percentage of your dues to go directly to the EI MS, this will not increase your annual dues; it simply affects distribution of your dues. Please ask your OASIS primary rep to send an email to (member-services@oasis-open.org) requesting affiliation with the EI Member Section. Your company/org. will be listed as a supporter on the EI Member Section web pages; you will also gain voting rights in determining the MS Steering Committee and other governance matters as described in the Rules of Procedure. Please contact me with any questions or concerns! Best regards, Dee Schur ********************************************************************** XML Daily Newslink. Wednesday, 18 July 2007 A Cover Pages Publication http://xml.coverpages.org/ Provided by OASIS http://www.oasis-open.org Edited by Robin Cover ==================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Emergency Alert System (EAS) Poised for Massive Overhaul Staff, Radio World Online For more than 50 years, our government-imposed emergency alerting systems have tried and too often failed to fulfill their collective intended mission and benefit to the public. The Integrated Public Alert and Warning System or IPAWS is a new initiative launched within DHS and FEMA to work with stakeholders to improve our public warning systems. We are seeing the fruit of that labor start to ripen. On May 31, 2007 the FCC adopted a Second Report and Order and FNPRM regarding EAS that will require EAS participants to accept messages using CAP, the Common Alerting Protocol. This will be incorporated in the next generation of EAS delivery systems no later than 180 days after FEMA announces its adoption of standards. CAP is an open, non-proprietary, XML-based standard data interchange format used by DHS, FEMA, NWS, USGS and more recently by the FCC. It can be used to collect all types of hazard warnings and reports locally, regionally and nationally for input into a range of information management and warning dissemination systems. The beauty of CAP is that it's readily used by the Internet, cellphones, PDAs, newsgathering organizations, radio, TV and cable operators, highway messaging, lottery machines and so on. The new EAS delivery structure will need to incorporate a text-based engine that will easily be harnessed by CAP. Existing EAS hardware manufacturers and perhaps new players will be introducing new codec versions that include CAP capability when rules are finalized. Perhaps most important for existing broadcasters, the new rules will require transmitting state and locally targeted EAS alerts that are originated by governors or their designees. The goal in forging a new EAS system is to quickly and reliably reach 99 percent of the nation using radio, TV and other media with geo-targeted voice, video, text and data emergency information. The government has fast-tracked this proceeding, and input from broadcasters is very much needed and encouraged. Radio World urges all interested parties to participate in the rulemaking process. We have a real opportunity to make EAS work the way it was intended. [Note: CAP http://www.rwonline.com/pages/s.0044/t.7243.html See also OASIS Emergency Management TC and CAP: http://xml.coverpages.org/emergencyManagement.html#oasis ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ====================================================
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