Re: [emergency-cap-profiles] Important Items from Today's CAP Profiles S

I see that I'm being asked about CAP videos.

The Canadian Centre for Security Science (CSS), who I work for under contract, recently released a series of video vignettes that relate to the Canada – United States Enhanced Resiliency Experiment (CAUSE) sponsored by CSS and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security – Science and Technology (DHS S&T). There is a video specific to the Multi-Agency Situational Awareness System (MASAS) that refers to CAP, CAP-CP and IPAWS. Here's the link: http://vimeo.com/planetworks/review/32349953/641b7b05c0 (yes I'm greying quickly!). Information regarding the MASAS Information eXchange (MASAS-X), now operating as an initial operating capability, can be found at http://www.MASAS-X.ca.

While I have your attention I'll provide a few further updates and links.

FEMA and CSS now have an agreement in place to support the development and exercising of CAP transmissions between MASAS and IPAWS. OASIS EM TC member Jacob Westfall has the lead on this. He and Gary Hamm are working towards operational capabilities that will support U.S. stakeholders having access to Canadian situational awareness and alerts through IPAWS, and Canadian stakeholders to that shared by U.S. colleagues in IPAWS through MASAS. We already consume and display IPAWS public alerts in MASAS, and have demonstrated publishing to COG 999.

OASAS members Jacob Westfall and Darrell O'Donnell manage a technical resource that includes the MASAS technical requirements and MASAS viewing and publishing tool source code at http://www.MASAS.ca. The site will feature updated documents in the coming weeks. You will find that we are packaging CAP in an Atom GeoRSS envelope…which in due course is to align with EDXL-DE – used as a label.

Information on CAP-CP can be found at http://www.CAP-CP.ca. CAPAN's technical page http://capan.ca/index.php/en/technical/ features a comprehensive CAP-CP implementation guide that OASIS member Norm Paulsen had a key role in developing. This site also features the CAP Event Location Layer which describes how we include an event location in a CAP alert.

To this last point, I cannot emphasize enough the importance of including an event location in a CAP alert. Showing alerts on a map, and then filtering them live based on the CAP category value, has provided me with countless "Now I get it" moments within our emergency management community. CAP on a map is why we are experiencing such rapid adoption of CAP and MASAS in Canada.

And finally, it is this rapid adoption of MASAS that is keeping Jacob, Darrell and me from attending more OASIS meetings. I believe you will hear much more from us in the new year after we complete the current release cycle and launch of MASAS-X.

Cheers,

Doug AllportDoug@Allport.ca

(613) 271-1040 Office

(613) 294-4425 BlackBerry

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