RE: NIDS on NOAAPORT (fwd)

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
address@hidden             WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 18:26:22 -0400
From: Dan Vietor <address@hidden>
To: Chad Johnson <address@hidden>
Subject: RE: NIDS on NOAAPORT

Time to clear up some stuff.

I wrote this email about a month ago when I started seeing NIDS data on
NOAAPORT.  Because these were tagged as text, the product was truncated,
prompting the email.

The NIDS data on NOAAPORT is currently straight NIDS data (with a WMO
and AWIPS header) but it will be encrypted shortly.  In other words,
there is no reason at this point to spin your wheels trying to decode
these products as they exist on NOAAPORT today.  They will remain
encrypted until the end of the new NIDS contract (likely Sept 2001 at
the earliest) and access to the decryption algorithms may only be given
to the NWS.  Most of this has yet to be ironed out between NWS and the
NIDS providers so stay tuned!!

Robb Kambic has implemented a filter to keep these products from making
it onto IDD.  This solves a couple of problems.  First, to protect the
current NIDS providers during the period where the NIDS products will be
sent on NOAAPORT as is.  Second, to keep the IDD bandwidth at a
reasonable amount.  As more and more NIDS data goes onto NOAAPORT, this
could clog some local Internet connections.

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