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Update on the International Register of Alerting Authorities

World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Weather and Disaster Risk Reduction Services Department (WDS) Public Weather Services Programme (PWS). Update on the International Register of Alerting Authorities.

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Update on the International Register of Alerting Authorities

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  1. World Meteorological Organization (WMO)Weather and Disaster Risk Reduction Services Department (WDS)Public Weather Services Programme (PWS) Update on the International Register of Alerting Authorities Presented at the CAP Implementation Workshopin Negombo, Sri Lanka, 17 June 2014, byEliot Christian <echristian@usgs.gov>Advisor to WMO Public Weather Services Division

  2. What is the international Register of Alerting Authorities? • Established by WMO and ITU • Identifies officially recognized alerting authorities, asserted by WMO Members (treaty among 185 nations and 6 territories) • Register has categories of alert messages, plus URL's for forecasts and CAP messages • Users of alert messages and others can subscribe to a news feed to stay current with any changes to the Register The International Register of Alerting Authorities

  3. Why is the Register necessary? • Aggregators and other intermediaries typically lack direct knowledge needed to distinguish an authoritative source of alert messages • This lack becomes more critical as alerting makes more use of large public networks • The Register of Alerting Authorities is a reference to address that knowledge gap • Each Register entry asserts that a particular source of alert messages is regarded by a WMO Member as authoritative The International Register of Alerting Authorities

  4. What are the key features of the Register? The International Register of Alerting Authorities

  5. The International Register of Alerting Authorities

  6. The Register itself is linked to theISO/ITU OID Tree http:/www.oid-info.com/get/2.49.0 The International Register of Alerting Authorities

  7. Register entries are typically linked to a nation http:/www.oid-info.com/get/2.49.0.0 The International Register of Alerting Authorities

  8. link to US entry in the Register U.S. entry in the OID tree links back to the WMO register http:/www.oid-info.com/get/2.49.0.0.840 The International Register of Alerting Authorities

  9. Administrative Procedure for Registering WMO Alerting Identifiers http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/amp/pwsp/documents/AIR_PWS-20.pdf The International Register of Alerting Authorities

  10. RSS Feed for Changes in Registered Authoritieshttp://alerting.worldweather.org/rss.xml The International Register of Alerting Authorities

  11. How are the Register entries maintained? • WMO Member PR’s were requested to designate editors for their Register records • Each designated editor is approved by WMO/PWS to use the Register application • Register application operates at Hong Kong Observatory; will be mirrored in South Africa The International Register of Alerting Authorities

  12. What is in the Register Right Now? • One or more editors have been officially designated by 121 of the WMO Members • The Register has 128 editors currently • The Register has at least one alerting authority record for each of the 191 WMO Members (185 nations and 6 territories) • There are 249 separate alerting authority records in the Register at present The International Register of Alerting Authorities

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