Document and Website Links

From CAP Cookbook

Specification and Specification Drafts

• CAP 1.1 Specification - (Adopted October,2005)
• CAP 1.0 Specification - (Adopted April 2004)

Background Documents

• An Advanced EAS Relay Network - Concept whitpaper for "digital EAS", 2003

• Effective Disaster Warnings - National Science and Technology Council report, 2000

News Coverage

• Justice issues fusion center guidelines - "The Justice Department has released its first Fusion Center Guidelines making recommendations about the center's law enforcement role, governance, connectivity standards, databases and security. Related to IT needs, the report specifically recommends use of the Global Justice Extensible Markup Language (XML) data model, the Common Alerting Protocol messaging standards, and service-oriented architectures for improved information-sharing." Washington Technology, August 30, 2005.
• Disaster Software Standards May Get Muscle from DHS - Government Computer News article on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's activities around mandating interoperability standards, May 2, 2005