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Re: blueskiess is down (fwd)


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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 19:37:22 GMT
From: David J. Knight <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden, address@hidden
Subject: Re: blueskiess is down

Jeff,
    As you know I just got out of a thesis defense.
Your request came after I went in. Please send all
computing requests for Albany to address@hidden.

But we have another problem here.
The agreement with GDS that allows us to freely distribute
lightning data to Unidata Universities stipulates
that the recipients of this data not redistribute
it in *any* form. It is to be used for research
and education *only* within the institutions that
receive it. While I assume you and Pete are
living by the spirit of the GDS agreement,
you have violated the letter of the agreement.

If this is occuring elsewhere in the IDD system,
and GDS finds out about it, it is quite likely
that they will rescind our agreement to distribute
this data. This is proprietory data and GDS requires
that tight control be maintained on how it is used
and distributed (Too bad in my opinion but that is
another matter). It would be unfortunate if UAlbany
was prevented from freely providing this data to Unidata
Universities. 

Please everybody, lets not get free and loose with this data
it is too valuable a resource to our community to risk loosing.

Thanks
David

> 
> yin.engin.umich.edu is now getting the MCIDAS feed from
> unidata.ssec.wisc.edu, and I am grabbing the lighting feed from
> sunset.meteor.wisc.edu until I hear back from Albany.
> 
> So, yin is now a fully functional IDD machine. I will have to work with
> our new sysadmin to get the stats mailed to UNIDATA, though, that is not
> being done yet.
> 
> Jeff
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> On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Pete Pokrandt wrote:
> 
> > 
> > In a previous message to me, you wrote: 
> > 
> >  >
> >  >The machine is getting the DDPLUS and HDS data, but is not yet
> >  >permitted to get MCIDAS and lightning data. I have just made the
> >  >requests to Chad Johnson at SSEC and David Knight at Albany to modify
> >  >their ldmd.conf files and have yin.engin.umich.edu permitted to
> >  >grab the data from their machines. Until this happens, users of the
> >  >umich.edu relay site may want to failover to an alternate site instead
> >  >of yin.engin.umich.edu.
> > 
> > Anyone who was feeding from blueskies or aldehyde who wants
> > the full feed is welcome to feed from our top level feed at
> > sunset.meteor.wisc.edu. I've got the full feed, including an 
> > on-campus link to the McIDAS feed from SSEC 8 floors down.
> > 
> > Just drop me an email with the machine you need me to ALLOW and I'll
> > be happy to set you up.
> > 
> > Jeff, I've also ALLOWed yen.engin.umich.edu also, if you want to get
> > the data from me until you hear back from the sources.  As soon
> > as all the ldm processes stop and it's restarted you're ready to go,
> > should be like 5 min or so.
> > 
> > Pete
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > +>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>+<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<+
> > ^ Pete Pokrandt                    V 1447  AOSS Bldg  1225 W Dayton St^
> > ^ Systems Programmer               V Madison,         WI     53706    ^
> > ^                                  V      address@hidden       ^
> > ^ Dept of Atmos & Oceanic Sciences V (608) 262-3086 (Phone/voicemail) ^
> > ^ University of Wisconsin-Madison  V       262-0166 (Fax)             ^
> > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<+>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>+
> > 
> > 
> 
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