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Re: 20040426: ECMWF data on your website (cont.)

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Unidata Support wrote:

> Just to be clear on this, I want to review what I think I understand
> about your setup.  Please correct all things that are incorrect:
> 
> - you work for the NIU Physical plant
> 
> - Physical plant provides no monies for you to create/maintain/populate
>   your web site

No direct money. I do that as part of my job. But it's technically not in 
my job description.
 
> The situation would be crystal clear if you were an employee of the
> Department of Geography (or any other academic department) and your
> web pages were hosted out of that same department.
> 
> By the way, WMO Resolution 40 is not the only possible rule base for
> product re-export restrictions.  ECMWF could also have its own set of
> restrictions that have to be abided by.  We are trying to see if they
> do, in fact, place additional restrictions on use of their data.  If
> they do, you could well be in violation of their restrictions and so be
> required to stop making plots of their data generally available.
> 
> Again, we are starting to research this now.

They do. I cannot residtribute anything but Day 3-6 850 temps and surface 
pressure in raw GRIB format, and here is where I am not sure...
"value-added" plotted data. I had always assumed that it was banned from 
the 'net in real-time. That website was just for a few friends, and not 
linked to anything.

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