Fwd: Interest in Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) ImplementersWorkshop

-----Original Message-----
From: Eliot Christian [mailto:EChristian@wmo.int]
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 3:13 AM
To: Dee Schur <dee.schur@oasis-open.org
Subject: Interest in Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) ImplementersWorkshop

The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), an OASIS standard
adopted as ITU Recommendation X.1303, is the foundation
standard for all-media public warning. Designed as an
all-hazards alert format, CAP is being implemented
worldwide for earthquakes, public health, and many
other emergencies, in addition to weather events.

I am writing to organizations that may be interested
to participate in a 2-day CAP Implementers Workshop.
If your organization is interested, please reply as soon
as possible ( mailto:echristian@wmo.int ) 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 to participate.

Details:

This 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.

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.



Eliot Christian, WIS Senior Scientific Officer
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Case Postal 2300, CH 1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland
phone: +41 22 730 81 71

Received on Sunday, 17 August 2008 23:27:23 UTC