NWS reviewing Headers!

• To: ldm-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
• Subject: NWS reviewing Headers!
• From: Daryl Herzmann <akrherz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:21:18 -0600 (CST)

All,

The following Data Management Message is very good news!  It is probably a
good time to bug your local WFO about products that you are not getting or
have 'incorrect' headers. I, for one, would like to be getting all of the
DSM messages from the ASOS sites.  My understanding is that many of those
ASOS DSM products have incorrect Orginating Center Ids(??) and are dropped
at the gateway.  

Later,
  Daryl

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NOXX10 KWBC 231601
DATA MGT MESSAGE 03-04.08
EFFECTIVE MARCH 23 2004

TO AWIPS/NOAAPORT USERS...FAMILY OF SERVICES/FOS/SUBSCRIBERS...
EMERGENCY MANAGERS WEATHER INFORMATION NETWORK/EMWIN/
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 CIDS CONSIST OF THE
WMO HEADING ON ONE LINE FOLLOWED BY THE AWIPS
IDENTIFIER ON A SECOND LINE. NOTE-NOT ALL NWS PRODUCTS
REQUIRE AN AWIPS IDENTIFIER.
PRESENTLY MANY NWS OFFICES ISSUE PRODUCTS WITH A MIX OF CIDS.
SOME ARE COMPLIANT WITH CURRENT NWS AND WMO POLICIES WHILE
OTHERS ARE NOT. EXAMPLE MANY NWS OFFICES ISSUE SOME PRODUCTS
USING THEIR OLD SITE IDS AND OTHER PRODUCTS WITH THEIR NEWER
SITE ID. OVER THE NEXT 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 JUNE 2004 WITH
SUBSEQUENT PHASES FOLLOWING APPROXIMATELY 60 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.

FUTURE DATA MANAGEMENT NOTICES WILL BE ISSUED 75 DAYS BEFORE THE
EFFECTIVE DATE OF EACH OF THE SIX PHASES OF CID CHANGES. EACH
NOTICE WILL REFERENCE AN EXPLICIT LIST OF ALL AFFECTED CIDS IN
THAT PHASE AND THE SPECIFIC CID CHANGES TO BE MADE. SIMILAR
NOTICES SUCH AS NATIONAL SERVICE CHANGE NOTICE /WMO HEADING..
NOUS42 KWBC... AWIPS ID.. PNSWSH/ AND LOCAL OR REGIONAL PUBLIC
INFORMATION STATEMENTS WILL ALSO BE DISSEMINATED IN THE
SAME TIME FRAME.

INFORMATION CONCERNING THE IMPENDING CHANGES WILL BE POSTED
ON THE DATA MANAGEMENT /DM/ WEB PAGE AND ON A CID TRANSITION
WEB PAGE. THE URL FOR THE DM WEB PAGE AND THE CID TRANSITION
WEB PAGE ARE POSTED BELOW...

HTTP/COLON///WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/DATAMGMT/INDEX.HTML

THE URL FOR THE CID TRANSITION WEB PAGE IS

HTTP/COLON///WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/DATAMGMT/CID.HTML

DATA MANAGEMENT IS THE PRIMARY LEAD FOR CID TRANSITION
IMPLEMENTATION. EACH NWS REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS OFFICE
THE NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTION /NCEP/
AND MANY LOCAL NWS OFFICES ALSO HAVE A CID TRANSITION POINT
OF CONTACT /POC/.

BEFORE EACH PHASE NWS OFFICES MAY ELECT TO TEST PRODUCTS AS
PART OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CID CHANGES.
ALL TEST PRODUCTS WILL FOLLOW THE PRESCRIBED FORMAT FOR TEST
MESSAGES DOCUMENTED IN NWS INSTRUCTION 10-1701.

ALL TESTS SHOULD BE COORDINATED WITH DATA MANAGEMENT.

BEST REGARDS

DATA MANAGEMENT

DATA MANAGEMENT
TELECOMMUNICATION OPERATIONS CENTER
RTH WASHINGTON SENDS