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The message included below was sent earlier on our communication lines. It is also posted to the Data Management Change Notices web page at the following URL: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/datamgmt/notices.shtml 2003/11/25 DM 11-03.11 INITIAL COMMUNICATION IDENTIFIER TRANSITION MESSAGE NOXX10KWBC 251235 DATA MGT MESSAGE 11-03.11 TO AWIPS/NOAAPORT USERS...FAMILY OF SERVICES/FOS/SUBSCRIBERS... EMERGENCY MANAGERS WEATHER INFORMATION NETWORK/EMWIN/ NOAA WEATHER WIRE SERVICE /NWWS/ AND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE/NWS/CUSTOMERS. FROM RTH WASHINGTON DATA MANAGEMENT ATTENTION ALL THE NWS HAS BEEN REVIEWING ALL COMMUNICATION IDENTIFIERS (CID) FOR COMPLIANCE WITH NWS AND WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION (WMO)CID POLICIES. NWS CID CONSIST OF THE WMO HEADING ON ONE LINE FOLLOWED BY THE AWIPS IDENTIFIER ON THE SECOND LINE. NOTE - NOT ALL NWS PRODUCTS REQUIRE AN AWIPS ID. SOME ARE COMPLIANT WITH CURRENT NWS AND WMO POLICIES WHILE OTHERS ARE NOT. STARTING IN JANUARY 2004, AND OVER THE COURSE OF THE UPCOMING YEAR NWS WILL BE WORKING TO CONVERT ALL CIDS SO THEY ARE COMPLIANT WITH NWS AND WMO POLICIES. CID CHANGES ARE PLANNED FOR SIX PHASES BASED PRIMARILY ON RELATED PRODUCT CATEGORIES. THE FIRST PHASE IS PLANNED FOR JANUARY 2004, WITH SUBSEQUENT PHASES FOLLOWING APPROXIMATELY SIXTY DAYS APART. CONSIDERATION WILL BE GIVEN TO THE NUMBER OF CHANGES IN EACH PHASE AND PRODUCT CATEGORIES MAY BE MOVED TO BETTER BALANCE THE PHASES OR FOR OPERATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS. THIS CONVERSION WILL REQUIRE CUSTOMERS TO UPDATE THEIR PRODUCT LISTINGS TO REFLECT THE NEW WMO HEADINGS AND AWIPS ID. A MORE DETAIL MESSAGE CONTAINING THE AFFECTED PRODUCTS WILL BE ISSUED WITH EACH PHASE. DATA MANAGEMENT IS THE PRIMARY LEAD FOR TRANSITION IMPLEMENTATION. HOWEVER EACH REGION WILL HAVE A CID TRANSITION POC. INFORMATION CONCERNING THE IMPENDING CHANGES WILL BE POSTED ON THE DATA MANAGEMENT WEB PAGE AND ON A CID TRANSITION WEB PAGE WHICH IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION. THE URL FOR THE DM WEB PAGE IS POSTED BELOW. BEST REGARDS WALTER SMITH SENIOR DATA MANAGER THIS INFORMATION IS ALSO POSTED ON THE NWS DATA MANAGEMENT WEB PAGE UNDER CHANGE NOTICES. THE URL IS LISTED BELOW. http://www.nws.noaa.gov/datamgmt/index.html DATA MANAGEMENT TELECOMMUNICATION OPERATIONS CENTER RTH WASHINGTON SENDS ---------- End Forwarded Message ----------
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