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Subject: OASIS Common Alerting Protocol - Workshop 9-10 December 2008
Dear OASIS Members, OASIS members are invited to suggest major discussion topics/issues and potential participants for a high-level Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop that will be organized jointly by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), ITU and OASIS. The Workshop will take place in Geneva on 09-10 December. The event will focus on the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), an OASIS Standard, adopted as ITU Recommendation X.1303, and the foundational standard for all-media public warning. Designed as an all-hazards alert format, CAP is being implemented worldwide for earthquakes, public health/epidemics, and many other emergencies, in addition to weather events. If your organization is interested, please reply by September 8 (mailto:echristian@wmo.int) with a copy to me as to: - How many persons from your organization are likely to participate in this Workshop? - Is your organization interested in showing a technology demo or best practices poster? - What high-priority coordination topics should be discussed at this Workshop? Please also forward this note to any discussion lists or individuals that may be interested in participating. Details: The Workshop is planned for 9-10 December 2008 at the WMO (World Meteorological Organization) in Geneva, in cooperation with OASIS and ITU. It will be primarily a forum for discussions among CAP implementers and ICT or emergency management organizations on topics requiring coordination. These topics may include, among others: having an internationally agreed list of authorities for common types of CAP alerts; disseminating, aggregating, and authenticating CAP alerts; making globally unique identifiers for CAP alerts; and, best practices for text in the CAP "description" and "instruction" elements. There is no charge for participation in the Workshop. You may be aware that this Workshop follows on the October 2006 "Workshop and Demonstration of Advances in ICT Standards for Public Warning" held at ITU in Geneva. see http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/worksem/ictspw and http://www.oasis-open.org/events/ITU-T-OASISWorkshop2006/proceedings.php. Since that 2006 Workshop, there have been notable developments including: - The ITU-D (ITU Development sector) approved guidance for developing nations on CAP implementation - OASIS established its Emergency Management Member Section to accelerate implementation of CAP and allied emergency data exchange standards - The U.S. FCC (Federal Communications Commission) issued an order requiring use of CAP - The WMO SWIC (Severe Weather Information Centre) began work on CAP warnings of Tropical Cyclones - The U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) continued improving its CAP messages and developing its Next Generation Warning Tool - The Weather Channel underscored to NWS the need to institute CAP - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began developing CAP alerts for air quality warnings - The Earth Observations Summit highlighted CAP implementation as a major achievement - Canada and the U.S. coordinated on implementation of their respective CAP-based alerting systems - EUMETNET began exploring how to adapt METEOALARM to support CAP. The Chair of the organizing group is: Eliot Christian, WIS Senior Scientific Officer World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Case Postal 2300, CH 1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland phone: +41 22 730 81 71 Thank you for your attention, -- Dee Schur, Manager of Member Support OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society http://www.oasis-open.org +1.978.667.5115 x211 Join us at the OASIS Forum on Security 30 Sept - 3 Oct, near London http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2008
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