CAP - Implementation Update (Implementation Workshop – Geneva, Switzerland 9-10 December 2008) Norm Paulsen (norm.paulsen@ec.gc.ca) Meteorological Service of Canada (Toronto) - Information Strategy Section December 9th, 2008

National Public Alerting System (NPAS) Canada building a National Public Alerting System using CAP Involves Governments at all levels Media at all levels Some private companies Meteorological Service of Canada (part of Environment Canada) Estimating 100,000 weather alerts annually (250 most critical level) Natural Resources Canada Estimating 100 geo-hazard alerts annually (25 most critical level) Numerous other jurisdictions Estimates not yet available (Issuer and event list growing and open ended for growth)

CAP - Canadian Profile All parties jointly have built a Canadian Profile of CAP Canadian events Canadian locations Canadian interpretations Canadian rules Languages Issuer rights A valid CAP-CP file will also validate to CAP

The Most Critical Alerts… are the main interest of the political leaders are defined as “Broadcast Intrusive” within the Public Alerting System Distributors are to apply intrusive measures in getting the message out (pushing with bells and whistles) The Intrusive setting will be handled with the use of a <parameter> tag in the NPAS layer of the CAP files NPAS to aggregate, validate, modify where necessary, and act as a dispatch centre for the distributors within the NPAS community

Met. Service of Canada (MSC)… has built an implementation of CAP-CP as a guide to all other Canadian efforts in public alerting Over 32000 MSC CAP-CP messages produced since June 2008 So far…6 different “Feeds” (message conduits) created to demonstrate message targeting… Targeting by Location (city, location) Targeting by Urgency (immediate, future, etc..) Targeting by Event Kind (tornado, blizzard) Others This MSC implementation is known as the CAP Canadian Profile “Reference Implementation” We see it as a template for Canadian public alerting stakeholders to follow for interpretation and guidance of CAP and CAP-CP.

Web Site (www.alerting.ca/cap) Sections Include RSS alert feeds Reference Implementation CAP examples Alerting Scenarios Supporting Documents Site Change log Future Change log Others Access filtered to those who self identify to EC