****************************************************************************** dorismail 14-Apr-2020 12:45:56 Message No 1226 ****************************************************************************** Author: "Michael, Benjamin P. (GSFC-61A0)" Subject: REMINDER - TERMINATION of Anonymous ftp at CDDIS All, Reminder that unencrypted anonymous ftp will be terminated at CDDIS on 31 Oct 2020 with limits on bandwidth starting this summer. At present CDDIS is seeing only about 20% of the current daily activities having been transitioned to https or ftp-ssl. Do not wait until the last minute. Please give this email widest dissemination to your colleagues. Original email announcing the termination and links are listed below. Please pay particular attention to the instructions linked, especially the requirement for using a .netrc file. Questions should be addressed to support-cddis@earthdata.nasa.gov R Pat Patrick Michael Manager Crustal Dynamics Data Information System (CDDIS) NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD 20771 301-614-5370 Patrick.Michael@nasa.gov Dear CDDIS Users PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE EMAIL! For more than two years now CDDIS has been warning our user community about the eventual termination of anonymous ftp to the CDDIS archive. On 31 October 2020, unencrypted anonymous ftp access will officially be discontinued at CDDIS. CDDIS will bandwidth limit ALL unencrypted ftp service starting the summer of 2020. CDDIS will implement bandwidth limits and final discontinuation of unencrypted ftp service in the timeline below. 1. 1 July 2020 – all unencrypted ftp service will be bandwidth limited to 1MB/s 2. 10 August 2020 – all unencrypted ftp service will be bandwidth limited to 250KB/s 3. 1 October 2020 – all unencrypted ftp service will be bandwidth limited to 50KB/s 4. 31 Oct 2020 – all unencrypted ftp service will be permanently discontinued at CDDIS CDDIS is STRONGLY recommending all users begin to transition to use https (https://cddis.nasa.gov/archive) as the preferred method of access to the CDDIS archive. Download procedures can be found at: https://cddis.nasa.gov/About/CDDIS_File_Download_Documentation.html, along with a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) link and links of how to use cURL, wget and Python (https://cddis.nasa.gov/Data_and_Derived_Products/CDDIS_Archive_Access.html) CDDIS has also made available ftp-ssl (gdc.cddis.eosdis.nasa.gov) as a secondary method to access the archive. In some cases the use of ftp-ssl may make the conversion of existing scripts easier than using https. Examples of how to use ftp-ssl are listed at: https://cddis.nasa.gov/Data_and_Derived_Products/CDDIS_Archive_Access.html. CDDIS will NOT be changing the archive structure. So the locations that you are using to access files will stay the same. Though a prefix in the URL might be needed, (i.e. /archive for the https method) or a new host (for ftp-ssl). CDDIS currently supports approximately 300,000 users and has served out almost 2 billion files in 2019. We understand that this change can have a significant impact on some of our users and have tried to make this process as easy as possible. Unfortunately this change is mandated by the US Government and outside of CDDIS’s control. If there are questions or comments, we ask that you address them to support-cddis@earthdata.nasa.gov and not directly to any CDDIS staff member. So in summary: 1. Anonymous ftp service will be discontinued 31 October 2020. 2. Transition to https or ftp-ssl needs to begin NOW 3. Questions should be addressed to support-cddis@earthdata.nasa.gov