[IGSMAIL-6379] Possible CDDIS outage due to U.S. Government furlough

[Carey Noll]

Author: Carey Noll/CDDIS

As many of you may have heard, ongoing budget debates within the U.S. Federal Government may come to a critical point on April 8, causing a potential furlough that will shut down non-essential U.S. Government services. CDDIS is funded and operated by NASA and will be affected by this action. Not only will CDDIS staff not be permitted to work, it appears that NASA will not permit access to public web/ftp servers during this furlough. Thus CDDIS will not be accessible to users and will not be able to receive incoming files for our archive. We regret the GREAT inconvenience this outage will cause, which could last a week or more.

While the CDDIS is unavailable, users can access one of the other
data centers supporting the services:

IGS:  http://www.igscb.org/organization/centers.html
ILRS: http://ilrs.gsfc.nasa.gov/products_formats_procedures/data_centers.html
IVS:  http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/org/components/dc-list.html
IDS:  http://ids-doris.org/data-products/info.html

Let's all hope that the U.S. Government passes a budget so we all can continue to work. I will keep you informed as I hear more news.

Regards,
Carey.
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Ms. Carey Noll
Manager, Crustal Dynamics Data Information System (CDDIS)
Secretary, ILRS Central Bureau
NASA GSFC
Code 690.1
Greenbelt, MD 20771
USA

E-mail:  Carey.Noll at nasa.gov
Voice: (301) 614-6542
Fax: (301) 614-6015
WWW:  http://cddis.gsfc.nasa.gov