I will save this in my
notes in the directory that contains EventListCmteNote,
PracticesGuide and CAPv1.2Errata. Suggest someone else do
likewise to double our chances of remembering to get back in
contact after September's CAP Workshop.
Cheers,
Rex
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Hello Rex –
Thank you
for your response! We look forward to hearing from you after
your September meeting in Rome. We are happy to help in any
way you think would be beneficial.
Kind
regards,
Erica
Erica
Kuligowski, PhD
Leader,
Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Group
Fire
Research Division
Engineering
Laboratory
National
Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg,
Maryland
Phone:
301-975-2309
Hello
Erica,
Thanks
for your patience. I've held off replying until after our
latest CAP Subcommittee meeting, in which I took the action
to draft a reply to you. Elysa will be replying separately
in some detail to your questions beyond my own previous
answers.
However,
your interest is timely from our perspective and we would
like to engage you more thoroughly after the upcoming
international CAP Workshop 2017 being held this September in
Rome, Italy.
Your
specific interest in CAP guidance for WEA Alert Messages in
the U.S. coincides with the broader topic of guidance for
cell broadcast internationally which we will be raising in
the CAP Workshop. Hence our wish to postpone discussions of
guidance for WEA so that we can include it within the larger
context of guidance for cell broadcast internationally. The
topic is one that we want to include in the updated
Practices Guide for CAP v1.2 we are working on, and plan to
finish shortly after we absorb feedback from the CAP
Workshop in early October.
Additionally,
based on feedback from the 2016 CAP Workshop, we are
developing a list of event terms (including event codes) to
enhance local, regional, national and international
interoperability. Since NIST is responsible for maintaining
US event codes, and there are upcoming changes regarding the
use of event codes for triggering of WEA messages, we think
your input could be especially valuable for this work, and
we would like to see if we can combine/coordinate these
distinct discussions, event terms (including event codes)
and short message cell broadcast guidance.
Best
Regards,
Rex Brooks
On 7/12/2017 6:26 AM, Kuligowski, Erica
D. (Fed) wrote:
Hello Rex
–
Thank you
very much for your quick responses to my questions. I
really do appreciate it! And, thank you for Ccing Elysa on
your reply, in case she has anything to add to your
responses.
And, thank
you also for suggesting that we arrange a mechanism
to address your SC on the topic/question re: CAP
parameters for the expansion of messages from 90 to 360
characters. I would be happy to discuss this further with
the SC, if you and Elysa find that useful.
Thank you and I look forward to any
additional correspondence on this – including a discussion
about attending a future SC meeting.
Kind regards,
Erica
Erica
Kuligowski, PhD
Leader,
Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Group
Fire
Research Division
Engineering
Laboratory
National
Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg,
Maryland
Phone:
301-975-2309
Hi
Erica,
I
am copying Elysa Jones with my reply here. I will answer
you questions as best I can, but I am sure Elysa is more
knowledgeable about these issues than I am.
1. We are working on an errata for CAP v1.2 and looking
forward to a longer process for developing the next full
version of CAP, which is likely to be CAP v2.0. That will
almost undoubtedly take a year to 18 months if not more to
complete. We are also working on an updated Practices Guide
as an informational Committee Note aimed at Q4 2017, or Q1
2018.
2. I will bring this up to the CAP Subcommittee (SC) which
meets this Friday, since we are working on an updated
Practices Guide. As of now, we haven't included this topic
in our current draft.
3. I will include this when I bring up the topic of
WEA/cell broadcast guidance in the SC. I am sure our group
will be interested in this topic since it also applies more
widely to the international community where developing
countries actually have a greater need for guidance for this
kind of technology since cell broadcast often represents
their frontline alerting capability rather than an adjunct
to more widely implemented older broadcast media
technologies. This just means it is more immediately
important to them than it is in the more traditionally
technologically developed countries.
4. This is another question that hasn't yet been explored
in our group, so I can't provide an answer as such. However,
it would be wise of us to listen to those, like you, who are
actively exploring this topic, so if you have the time, and
the ability through NIST, you might want to arrange to
address our SC on this topic as a way to help us bnetter
understand the need for such guidance as we can develop. So,
I suggest coordinating with Elysa to arrange for a briefing
to our SC or the overall Emergency Management Technical
Committee on this topic.
Sorry I couldn't provide better answers, bu this is an area
we need to explore further before we can offer good
guidance.
Thanks for you interest,
Rex
On 7/11/2017 8:16 AM, Kuligowski, Erica
D. (Fed) wrote:
Hello Mr. Brooks –
I sent an email with some questions to
Elysa Jones, below. I am a researcher at NIST who has been
working in the area of alerting and warning for buildings
and communities for several years now. I am currently
working on a project that focuses on providing guidance to
communities on short message alerting – either via WEA or
Twitter (since both messages are restricted in character
length). I have some questions regarding CAP for WEA,
below – and I am hoping that I can speak with you or
someone from the OASIS EM TC. Would you be available to
help with some of these questions? Or, perhaps I should
wait to hear back from Elysa, if she is my appropriate
contact? Or, is there is someone else I should contact
regarding these questions? Any help would be greatly
appreciated!
Thank you in advance and I very much
look forward to your response.
Best,
Erica
Erica
Kuligowski, PhD
Fire
Protection Engineer and Sociologist
Leader,
Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Group
Fire
Research Division
Engineering
Laboratory
National
Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg,
Maryland
Phone:
301-975-2309
Hello Elysa –
I hope that this email finds you well!
I am not sure if you remember me, but we met a few years
ago at the NFPA 1616 meeting when I presented about some
upcoming NIST research on the use of short message
platforms for public alerting before/during disasters,
including Twitter and wireless emergency alerts (WEAs). At
NIST, we are currently working on reviewing literature on
how the public responds to short messages – to eventually
provide evidence-based guidance to the alerting community.
I am writing because we are very
interested in the Common Alerting Protocol for WEAs. I
have included a list of questions, below, that I am hoping
you might be able to help us with. Would you have some
time next week, perhaps, to have a brief phone call with
us regarding our questions (below)? Thank you in advance
and I look forward to hearing from you.
- I know that OASIS developed a standard for
CAP (version 1.2) in July 2010. Has there been an update
of this standard since then? (https://docs.oasis-open.org/emergency/cap/v1.2/CAP-v1.2-os.pdf)
- Additionally, I have read through the
standard and am aware that CAP can be used for many
different applications/telecom methods. However, there
are certainly character limitations, for example, if one
was to use CAP for WEAs vs. NOAA WR or EAS warnings. Is
there any special guidance or information for alert
originators when using CAP for WEA? The reason I am
asking is because I am trying to better understand the
user-interface involved with using CAP for WEA – e.g.,
how does the user know how to best populate certain
required elements/sub-elements when they have a
character limit of 90 characters (for WEAs)?
- Related to my previous question, now that
the FCC has released new regulations expanding WEA
character lengths to 360 characters (for 4G-LTE and
future networks), how would the CAP standard, its
elements/sub-elements, or at least the templates for WEA
change (if at all)?
- Finally, where in the CAP parameters would
message provides (or alert originators) be able to
expand their messages from 90 to 360 characters? Maybe
via the “description” (i.e., An extended
human readable description of the hazard or event that
occasioned this message) or “instruction”
(An extended human readable instruction to targeted
recipients) elements? Do these elements (or others)
offer an opportunity for alert originators to supply
free form text?
Thank you in advance and I very much
look forward to hearing from you. If you know of others at
OASIS or elsewhere that we should be talking with about
these questions, please let me know.
Thank you and kind regards,
Erica
Erica
Kuligowski, PhD
Leader,
Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Group
Fire
Research Division
Engineering
Laboratory
National
Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg,
Maryland
Phone:
301-975-2309
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Email: rexb@starbourne.com
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Starbourne Communications Design
Email: rexb@starbourne.com
GeoAddress:
1361 Addison St. Apt. A
Berkeley, CA 94702
Phone: 510-898-0670
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