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Subject: FEMA IPAWS Note on CAP Profile
All, Following a request from the FEMA IPAWS Program, I am forwarding
the below statement. Thanks Sukumar ----------------------------------------------------- History: - In short, per the FCC’s 2nd Report &
Order in 12 Jul 07, the FCC deferred adoption of standards and protocols for
the EAS system to FEMA. A 180-day implementation clock starts for
industry upon FEMA’s adoption of its standards and protocols. - On 30 Jul 08, FEMA announced in a press release that it
will be working with its federal, state, local and industry partners, including
OASIS, to develop its standards and protocols. At that time, FEMA gave
notice to the community that it intends on adopting its standards and protocols
by 1QCY09, or 31 Mar 09. - On 25 Sep 08, the EAS-CAP Industry Group (ECIG) published
its draft CAP Profile. - On 22 Oct 08, FEMA and DHS S&T conducted a
teleconference with the ECIG and discussed our plans and activities with them,
including the OASIC process. - On 12 Dec 08, FEMA published a draft Profile Requirements
document to the OASIS Profiles Sub-Committee and to the ECIG and the ATIS/TIA
Joint CMAS standard development working group. The FEMA draft Profile
Requirements document addressed only one exchange partner system, namely EAS. - Since 12 Dec 08, the OASIS Profiles SC has been
adjudicating contributions from FEMA, DHS S&T, from within the SC
(including NOAA and HazCollect), and from subject matter experts from the ECIG
and ATIS/TIA to develop a draft IPAWS CAP Profile. FEMA welcomed the
expansion of scope for the Profile development to include other exchange
partner systems by including CMAS and HazCollect in addition to EAS. Statement: FEMA and DHS S&T acknowledge that not every community
member is aware of the OASIS process or is able to participate in the OASIS
process. We have been engaging Emergency Managers via a separate
Practitioners Working Group (PWG) and plan to engage Industry via a separate
Industry Engagement Day (IED) later this month. We have asked the PWG to
provide comments on the original Profile Requirements document from Dec
08. We intend to adjudicate all comments on the Profile Requirements
document in order to refine the Profile Requirements document. Further,
as the OASIS Profile document has developed, that document has addressed many
of the matters from the Profile Requirements document. We intend on
offering all comments to the FEMA Profile Requirements document as contributions
to the OASIS Profiles SC to help shape the OASIS IPAWS CAP Profile as well. FEMA’s goal is to fulfill its responsibilities under
the FCC’s 2nd R&O to adopt standards and protocols for the
Next-Generation EAS system. The OASIS standards-making process offers a
public, open, fair, and rigorous forum for gathering and adjudicating all
contributions from all members of the community. The community requests a
single CAP message for use among multiple dissemination systems, which we have
called exchange partners. We welcome contributions from the whole
community in order to develop a singular OASIS IPAWS CAP Profile that will
address constraints on the CAP v1.1 standard among all exchange partners. It is FEMA’s responsibility to publish its standards
and protocols. FEMA will consider and adjudicate the OASIS IPAWS CAP
Profile as appropriate in preparation for its adoption of standards and
protocols for the Next-Generation EAS. FEMA recognizes that the
FCC’s 2nd R&O does not require standards and protocols to
be published at this time regarding security, multiple languages, alerts &
warnings of special needs communities, or of video media types. Hence, we
feel that it is reasonable to consider adopting the OASIS IPAWS CAP Profile as
part of its pending standards and protocols. Note, however, in accordance
with statements made publicly, that FEMA intends on pursuing the development of
additional requirements to address any outstanding issues for NG-EAS systems. ------------------------------------------------------ Sukumar
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