1. Issues Mechanisms to discover and validate CAP feeds
WIS CAP Implementers Workshop, 9-10 Dec 2008, WMO Geneva
Mechanisms to discover and validate CAP feeds
Brokers
Internationally agreed list of authorities for common types of CAP alerts
Language
Metadata
Profiles
What is a valid CAP feed?
XML standard: easy
Content: more difficult
When is a geographic area defined well enough? ISO3 country codes?
Thresholds for severity, certainty and urgency?
Use of ‘incidents’?
CAP in a closed system or in open system
Platforms (Google, GDACS) ID
CAP for
alerting (last mile)
to move data between components of an alert system (e.g. common operational picture)
Alert is only one step in response
Alert as input or as output: alerting chain