****************************************************************************** dorismail 04-Apr-2011 12:37:21 Message No 0742 ****************************************************************************** Author: Carey Noll Subject: Possible CDDIS outage due to U.S. Government furlough 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. ----- 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@nasa.gov Voice: (301) 614-6542 Fax: (301) 614-6015 WWW: http://cddis.gsfc.nasa.gov Please do not reply directly to this message, but send comments and suggestions to IDS.central.bureau@cls.fr