Audit Criteria Mark Francis ET-WISC/TT-DC Agenda item 10 12-15 March 2019, Beijing

Contents Scope Audit Criteria Breakout sessions Next steps

Scope An action which was initiated in the joint meeting of ET-WISC, ET-CTS and TT-GISC in Geneva in November, 2017. The final report contains the following decision (D17) ET-CAC requests that ET-WISC to review audit criteria and to update the GISC Audit Check List. Working group - Mark FRANCIS, LI Xiang, Sungsoo DO and Kai-Thorsten WIRT

Scope of GISC Audits Criteria taken from “Guide-to-WIS” page 61. (a) GISC to GISC backup; (b) Security; (c) Monitoring; (d) Quality of service provided by the WIS; (e) WIS core network (e.g. in 2014, this was the Regional Meteorological Data Communication Network – Next generation); (i) Connectivity and management; (ii) Cacheing of “Globally distributed data” content; (f) Management of the GISC area of responsibility; (i) Capacity development; (ii) The AMDCN connecting the GISC to NCs and DCPCs in its area; a. Cacheing of “Area of responsibility” content; (iii) Participation in WIS coordination and planning mechanisms (e.g. CBS Inter-programme Expert Teams, Expert Teams and Task Teams).

Audit Criteria Organisation Factors (chair – LI Xiang) QMS Funding Training

Audit Criteria Operational (chair - Kia-Thorsten WIRT) 24/7 operational capability SLA guidlines Monitoring – GISC Watch Reporting Plan/Do/Check – How do you close the loop How does an organisation manage risk within their organisation

Audit Criteria Technical (chair Weiqing QU) Compliance of technical defininitions in WIS 1.0 Training of NC/DCPC Compliance of Technical Regulations Monitoring Json file

Audit Criteria Backup (Kenji TSUNODA) GISC to GISC Nomination of alternate GISC‘s Progression of management of the service

Audit Criteria Breakout Sessions Each group to discuss a topic 1.5 – 2 hours Group presents their findings (nominated person from each group) 10 minutes per group Kevin Alder to provide support to each group Group discussion (All) 20 minutes

Audit Criteria Next steps Sub group to continue to draft a paper with updated criteria.

Thank you Merci