CAP-CP Event References 1.0

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Purpose of this Document

This document presents the current and complete list of event name and event code references that are recognized for use in CAP alerts as part of the Canadian Profile of the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP-CP). Rules associated with this reference list can be found in the associated CAP-CP Rules document.

This document is managed and versioned independently of the CAP-CP Rules document and the CAP-CP Location References document so that it is not dependent on updates to either documents, and is not subject to update each time the others are updated. This approach limits the scope of CAP-CP updates to each of the rules, locations or event references, and supports more specialized focus of the participants to the change management process.

The event list is all encompassing, evergreen, and may be broader than a specific community of practice may wish to support. With this in mind, Canadian communities of practice may wish to identify and use subsets of the list for very specific purposes or systems. For example, the SOREM public alerting “broadcast immediately” list is a subset of the CAP-CP event references list.

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The CAP-CP 1.0 Specification Committee requires users of the CAP-CP Canadian Profile to make reference in their documentation to the Standard title listed in the title block above, the version of the Standard, and reference the official web site where the Standard resides www.cap-cp.ca.

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Notices

This document and the information contained herein is provided on an "AS IS" basis and the Authors, and their officers, employees or agents DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE RIGHTS OF OTHERS, OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Official versions are available at www.CAP-CP.ca.

Terms

• “CEMCS” refers to Canadian Emergency Management Communications Specifications governed by SOREM.
• “CEMCS CMP” refers to the Change Management Process established for managing Canadian Emergency Management Communications Specifications.
• “SC” refers to Common Alerting Protocol – Canadian Profile (CAP-CP) 1.0 Specification Committee as established under the CEMCS CMP and the CAP-CP 1.0 SC Terms of Reference.
• “SOREM” refers to Senior Officials Responsible for Emergency Management. It reports to the Federal/Provincial/ Territorial Deputy Ministers Responsible for Emergency Management.

Terminology

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in IETF RFC 2119, available at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt

CAP-CP 1.0 Specification Committee

The Specification Committee membership may include both voting and non-voting members. A Chair and Vice-Chair shall be selected from the committee’s voting membership with a Secretary selected from either group.

Voting Representation

Organizations with voting oversight of this document included the following:

• Alberta Emergency Management Agency
• Canadian Public Safety Operations Organization (formerly known as the Canadian Association for Public Alerting and Notification)
• Centre for Security Science
• Environment Canada
• Industry Canada
• Natural Resources Canada
• Pelmorex Communications Inc.
• Public Safety Canada
• Sécurité Publique Québec
• NetAlerts Inc.

Non-Voting Representation

Organizations overseeing the process used to manage this document included the following:

• Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
• Federal, Provincial, Territorial – Interoperability Working Group (FPT IWG), on behalf of the federal, provincial, territorial Senior Officials Responsible for Emergency Management (SOREM)
• Public Safety Canada – Interoperability Development Office
• Canadian General Standards Board (CGSB) in a consultative role

Acknowledgement

The Specifications Committee gratefully acknowledges the contributions of the following people in the preparation of this CAP-CP document.

• Norm Paulsen (Committee Chair)
• Doug Allport
• Khalil Hayek
• Kirsten Wells
• Robert De La Durantaye
• Thomas Poirier-Blanchet
• Philip Dawe
• Wendy Wu
• Tim Trytten
• Jacob Westfall
• April Diver
• Jay Shah
• Jeff Conrad
• Noah Moser
• Tyler Andrews

Other CAP-CP Documents

The entire CAP-CP is defined by three documents, all of which can be found at www.CAP-CP.ca. The other two documents are titled as follows:

• CAP-CP Rules. This document details the specific requirements, constraints, and recommendations associated with the Canadian Profile of the CAP. It is versioned independently of this document.
• CAP-CP Location References. This document identifies Canadian location references for use with CAP-CP. It is versioned independently of this document.

Additionally, the following Annex is supported:

• CAP-CP Location References Geocode Annex. This document lists the Canadian location references for use with CAP-CP. It is an appendix to the CAP-CP Location References document and also contains additional supporting material.

CAP Event References Overview

Event References in a CAP message are optional and are left to the issuing authority to manage. In CAP-CP the event reference list is managed by the CAP-CP Working Group as a means to formalize a list of event codes for all CAP-CP practitioners within Canada in order to standardize on the list for consistency across partners.

Event Reference <valueName>

CAP-CP has adopted a URN-like scheme for creating valueNames. Event reference valueNames use the following format:

profile:CAP-CP:Event:{version number}

The following <valueName> is defined for this version of the Event References document:

profile:CAP-CP:Event:1.0

Event List

CAP-CP events are identified as belonging to one of two tiers of event types: Tier I or Tier II.

Tier I events typically refer to a class of events; Tier II events refer to specific events. As an example, “heat wave” and “cold wave” are Tier II events, within the Tier I class of events titled “temperature”. Similarly, Tier II “dangerous person” and “home crime” are within the Tier I class of “criminal activity”.

We note that Tier I and Tier II events may be associated with one or more CAP categories. As an example, “air quality” may be associated with CAP categories “Met”, “Env”, “Geo”, “Health” and “Transport”. The associations found herein are suggested, but not definitive.

Originators are encouraged to use Tier II selections whenever applicable. Tier I references are better suited to events which do not have a specific Tier II selection.

The event list is presented in six columns. The first two columns present the Tier I class of events in English and French. The next two present the Tier II specific events in English and French. The fifth column provides the event code.

The sixth column identifies the CAP categories to which the event may be associated. eventCode and category values, listed and shaded in the table below, are computer based codes that are used as given, irrespective of language.

The event code format is 4 to 12 characters, is not case-sensitive, and has no spaces allowed.

Appendix A

Date modified:

2022-08-12