The International Register of Alerting Authorities

1. The International Register of Alerting Authorities Haleh Kootval Chief, Public Weather Services WMO Geneva 23 April 2013

2. Outline • What is the international Register of Alerting Authorities? • Why is the Register necessary? • What are the key features of the Register? • How are the Register entries maintained? • What is in the Register now? The International Register of Alerting Authorities

3. What is the International Register of Alerting Authorities? • Established by WMO (Public Weather Services) and ITU-T (using the OID register) • Identifies officially recognized alerting authorities, designated by WMO Members • 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

4. The WMO Register of Alerting Authorities • Developed for WMO PWS • Members identify their officially recognized alerting authorities for all types of hazards • Register has categories of alert messages, plus URL's for forecasts and CAP messages • Aggregators of alert messages and others can subscribe to a news feed to stay current with any changes to theregister • http://www-db.wmo.int/alerting/authorities.html The International Register of Alerting Authorities

5. 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 tool to address this gap • Each Register entry indicates a particular source of alert messages designated by a WMO Member as authoritative, for particular categories of hazards over a particular area The International Register of Alerting Authorities

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

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8. 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

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

10. 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

11. 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

12. RSS Feed for Changes in Registered Authoritieshttp://www-db.wmo.int/alerting/rss.xml The International Register of Alerting Authorities

13. View Source of RSS Feed The International Register of Alerting Authorities

14. How are the Register entries maintained? • WMO letter to all PRs in 2009 describing the Register; recent follow-up letter • PRs were requested to designate an editor to maintain Register records for the Member’s alerting authorities • The designated editor is approved by WMO/PWS and selects a password • Each editor maintains Register entries on behalf of the Member • The Register application is being redeveloped to operate at Hong Kong Observatory and will be backed up by South Africa Weather Service The International Register of Alerting Authorities

15. What is in the Register Now? • The Register holds at least one alerting authority for each of the 191 WMO Members • There are 231 separate alerting authorities in the Register • About half of the WMO Members have officially designated one or more editors (over 100 editors currently) The International Register of Alerting Authorities

16. Thank You URL for WMO Register of Alerting Authorities http://www.wmo.int/alertingorg The International Register of Alerting Authorities