Defence Alert Status

Level 4 - Green - No immediate threat

• Intelligence gathering continues in the usual manner - through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Embassies.

Level 3 - Yellow - Minimal risk

• Intelligence gathering shall continue on specified targets, but increased awareness for unanticipated actions / reaction / movements / posting;
  (Examples include the gaining or loss of UN status or change in endorsement patterns.)

Level 2 - Orange - Elevated risk

• Intelligence gathering to prioritise collection of data on specific target(s) identified as a threat; (Examples include log in time (or last activity) for both the nation in question and forum profile)
  
• All Canadian Regional Defense Force members will be issued a sign in request in the appropriate Forum;
  
• Regional Forum will check for multiples of new profiles with exsiting resources
  
• Minister of Defence to check and ensure that all Canadian Regional Defence Force Soldiers have the sitting delegate, members of Cabinet and other Canadian Regional Defence Force Soldiers endorsed.
  
• Diplomatic contacts shall be informed that diplomatic discussions will reduce;
  
• All intelligence related discussion will be relocated to either Command or the Administrator Discussion forum based on severity. The severity to be decided by the Prime Minister as the Commander in Chief of the Canadian Regional Defence force and Minister of Defence. If felt appropriate, a Cabinet roll call vote may be taken to gauge Cabinet’s position on the current item;
  
• Regional Forum will activiate Administrator validation protocol and conduct intensive investigation into new Nations and/or profiles;
  Investigation’s will include, but not be limited to, IP traces (to determine if alive or dead); host details (for proxying or reverse DNSing) and in extreme circumstances GPS location to ascertain a legitimate physical location.

Level 1 - Red - Danger

• Intelligence gathering to cease on targets identified as minimal threat and focus on analysis of strategy;
  
• All available UN Nations are requested to endorse the sitting delegate and Cabinet if not already done so.
  
• All intelligence / Cabinet related discussion to be relocated to the Administrator Discussion sub forum and important information to be relayed via the forum personal message facility;
  
• Command and Administrator Discussion to be enabled with URL redirect;
  
• Regional Forum to continue with validation protocols as described in Level 2;
  
• Diplomatic contacts shall be informed that until level 2 or greater is achieved that Diplomatic contacts such as Ambassadorial reports will not contain governmental or Cabinet related items
  
• The sitting Delegate shall password protect the Region. If there is indisputable evidence, the sitting delegate can add the suspected invader nation name to the regional ban list.

Additional Notes
Regions are most vulnerable prior to the server-update;
As long as Nations are ejected before the update, the current sitting Delegate will retain their Delegacy;
In this instance the sitting Delegate will be required to monitor Nation movement within the Region;
As long as we password protect the region near the update, we will remain safe;

It is suggested that subsequent sitting Delegates adopt these procedures.
This defence strategy should protect the region from invaders in times of "Code Red" status.
It is suggested that the endorsement script is run approximately every two weeks.
In periods of high alert, it is recommended that it is run more frequently to be able to identify patters in endorsements.