Alert Gateway Group (AGG) Status Report to the Commercial Mobile Service Alert Advisory Committee September 19, 2007 Anthony Melone, AGG Leader

AGG - Alerting Gateway Group 2 AGG Progress Since Last Update  Submitted Two Drafts on Alert Gateway Requirements August 9th: Third Draft September 7th: Final Draft  Completed all Deliverables Finalized Alert GW filtering and mapping logic from CAP to CMAC protocol  Set alert expiration to one hour if not provided Finalized Alert GW message construction logic to support both free format text and automatic text generation  Use CAP parameter for free format text  For automatic text generation, use canned text “in this area” for area effected instead of listing area names to meet the CMA message length limitation  Limit the sender agency to 12-character if necessary

AGG - Alerting Gateway Group 3 Alert Gateway Requirements  Outline of requirements is as follows: A.Alert Gateway Architecture B.Security C.System capacity and Performance D.Interfaces and Protocols E.Protocol Mapping F.CMS Provider Profiles G.Reporting H.Performance Testing

AGG - Alerting Gateway Group 4 Summary of Draft Conclusions A.Alert Gateway Architecture Flexible Architecture Geo-redundant B.Security Requirements Authentication and Authorization  At both B and C interfaces Assumed that B Interface is within government defined “trust-model” C interface will support non-proprietary standards-based security (e.g. IPSec, SSL) Gateway locations will be physically secured

AGG - Alerting Gateway Group 5 Summary of Draft Conclusions C.System Capacity and Performance Capacity  Based on historical data the Alert Gateway should be designed to support  25,000 CMA’s per year.  Design peak rate of 30 alerts per second. Buffering  The Alert Gateway shall support two queues per CMSP Gateway  One queue for buffering the Presidential alerts  Another queue for buffering non-Presidential alerts  The processing of Presidential alerts takes priority over non- Presidential alerts  Non-Presidential alerts are processed sequentially as received

AGG - Alerting Gateway Group 6 Summary of Draft Conclusions D.Interface and Protocols B Interface  Documented, Non-proprietary standards based (likely IP)  CAP v1.1 protocol (XML) C Interface  Documented, Non-proprietary standards based (likely IP)  XML based protocol E.Protocol Mapping CAP Element to “CMAS” Element (w/CTG, AIG)  Translation Logic  Defined Default Values CAP Element to Text Verbatims (w/UNG, AIG)

AGG - Alerting Gateway Group 7 Summary of Draft Conclusions F.CMSP Profiles CMSP GWs Information (i.e. IP addresses) Geo-Location Coverage on a State Level G.Reporting Message Logs  On-line (90 days)  Archived (36 months) General System & Performance Reporting

AGG - Alerting Gateway Group 8 Summary of Draft Conclusions H.Performance Testing Connectivity (C interface)  Periodic “keep alive” messaging  CMSP requested testing after planned and unplanned outages Functional (Alert GW through CMSP GW)  Alert GW originated Test Messages  Accepted by CMSP GW, but not sent to end user device Support Overall System Testing  Will be treated as a normal message with appropriate mapping of CAP element to CMAS element to maintain “test” identity of alert

AGG - Alerting Gateway Group 9 Conclusions  The AGG has resolved all the technical issues related to Alert GW.  The AGG has completed specifying all technical requirements for the Alert Gateway