Working Group #9CAP Implementation

June 6, 2012

Co-Chair Chris HomerCo-Chair Ed Czarnecki

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Working Group #9 CAP Implementation

Description: The overall goal for Working Group 9 is provide recommendations and best practices to the FCC on CAP/EAS implementation progress through 2012. A specific near-term goal is to review the FCC’s Fifth Report & Order (released January 10, 2012) on CAP deployment.

Duration: First Report March 2012 Second Report June 2012

CSRIC Working Group Structure

Communications Security, Reliability, and Interoperability Council (CSRIC) III

Working Group 5: DNSSEC

Implementation Practices for ISPs

Working Group 6: Secure BGP Deployment

Working Group 4: Network Security

Best Practices

Working Group 7: Botnet

Remediation

Working Group 3: E911 Location

Accuracy

Working Group 8:E911 Best Practices

Working Group 2: Next Generation

Alerting

Working Group 9: Legacy Broadcast

Alerting Issues

Working Group 1: Next Generation

911

Working Group 10:911 Prioritization

CSRIC Steering Committee

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Working Group Deliverable Timeline

D = draft report to Steering Committee F = final report to CSRIC Members V = Vote by full CSRIC

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Working Group 9 – 24 Team Members Al Kenyon FEMA Andy Scott, National Cable Television

Association (NCTA) Bill Marriott, ComLabs Bill Robertson, DAS Bob Sherry, Intrado Chris Homer, DirecTV (Chair) Clay Freinwald, Washington SECC Daryl Parker, TFT Donald Walker, GRM Doug Semon, Time Warner Cable Edward Czarnecki, Monroe Electronics

(Co-Chair) Gary Timm, Wisconsin SECC Harold Price, Sage Alerting Systems

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Jeb Benedict, CenturyLink Jeff Staigh, Univision Jim Gorman, Gorman-Redlich Kelly Williams, National

Association of Broadcasters (NAB)

Larry Estlack, Michigan Association of Broadcasters

Matthew Straeb, GSS Michael Hooker, T-Mobile Mike Nawrocki, Verizon Ron Boyer, Boyer Broadband Tim Dunn, T-Mobile Eric Ehrenreich, FCC

Working Group 9 - Executive Summary The Emergency Alert System is the primary warning system

that provides the President with the means to address the nation during a national crisis.

CSRIC Working Group 9 was established to provide recommendations and best practices for the deployment of CAP. March 2012

Text to Speech Device Certification

June 2012 Audio File Security Audio File Format

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Working Group # 9 - Findings

#1 CAP 1.2 provides an optional means of securing resource elements (audio, graphics, documents or other multimedia), but its’ use is not currently required by the IPAWS profile.

#2 After ECIG issued its version 1.0 Implementation Guide, FEMA concurred with ECIG about limiting audio types to MP3 only. ECIG noted this FEMA memoranda on their web site, but has not yet issued an update to their 1.0 Implementation Guide.

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Working Group # 9 - Recommendations

Authentication of Audio Resources in CAP Messaging The Working Group’s recommendation is that any CAP

messages intended for dissemination via the IPAWS aggregator should include a digest element, as referenced in the CAP 1.2 standard. The digest element is “optional” in the CAP 1.2 standard.

The Working Group suggests that this approach would provide for authentication of resource elements and that use of the “digest element” should be required when a resource element is referenced in a CAP message, if needed for CAP EAS.

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Working Group # 9 - Recommendations

Audio file types for CAP EAS messaging The Working Group agreed on a recommendation for ECIG to

update their implementation guide to specify of file/MIME types to MP3 audio file only for EAS broadcast.

We further agreed on a recommendation that, if amending the standards incorporated by reference represents a substantive change to a rule section in Title 47 CFR Part 11, the FCC should undertake its notice and comment rulemaking proceeding prior to implementing the change. (or)

Short of an additional rule change, we recommend that the FCC should clarify whether the FEMA concurrence memorandum suffices as guidance documentation, without further rules.

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Working Group # 9 – Best Practices

Best Practices• The FEMA aggregator should inspect for “non-conforming”

audio mime types in EAS message.• Origination developers should be strongly encouraged to

subject their systems to the existing FEMA conformity assessment for originators, to ensure proper conformance to the audio file specification.

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Working Group # 9 - Next Steps

WG 9-1 CAP Post June 30 WG 9-2 Discussion Items

Discuss open items from 3rd & 5th R&O

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2012

CSRIC MeetingFriday, 12/16/2011

AprFebJanDecNov Mar

Final CSRIC MeetingWednesday, March 6, 2013

CSRIC MeetingThurs, 3/8/2012WG-9 Report 1

FCC CAP Deadline6/30/2012

OctAugJulJunMay Sep JanDecNov

CSRIC MeetingFriday, 12/5/2012WG-9 Report 4

2013

Tentative - Project Timeline

WG9 KickoffMeeting

CSRIC MeetingWeds, 6/6/2012WG-9 Report 2

CSRIC MeetingWeds, 9/12/2012WG-9 Report 3