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

2. Contents
Scope
Audit Criteria
Breakout sessions
Next steps

3. Scope
An action which was initiated in the joint meeting of ET-WISC, ET-CTS and TT-GISC in Geneva in November, 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

4. 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).

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

6. 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

7. 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

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

9. 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

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

11. Thank you
Merci