WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION

INTERCOMMISSION COORDINATION GROUP ON THE FUTURE WMO INFORMATION SYSTEM

GENEVA, 12 - 14 JANUARY 2005

Chairperson: Geerd-R. Hoffmann

Secretariat Contact:
Jean-Michel Rainer jmrainer@wmo.int

Last update: 29/1/2005

Outcome: Actions & Report to PTC Meeting 2005
Reference documents:
Extracts from Cg-XIV and EC-LV (Geneva, May 2003) final reports Word
Extracts from EC-LVI (Geneva, June 2004) final reports Word
Outcome of the CBS/Inter-Programme Task Team on FWIS (September 2004) Word and documents
Working documents
Agenda Item & Document Number	Title	Submitted by
	List of participants
	Information to participants
1.2(1)	Agenda	Secretariat
1.2(2)	Explanatory memorandum	Secretariat
2(1)	Review of relevant decisions of EC-LVI	Secretariat
3(1)	Status of development of the FWIS: Executive summary on FWIS	Chair
3(2)	WMO Metadata standard	Secretariat
3(3)	Generation of unique identifiers for WMO purposes	CBS/ISS (Steve Foreman)
3(4)	FWIS VPN Pilot Project in Regions II and V; Considering the role of the GTS as a communication component of the FWIS	H. Ichijo
3(5)	GISC Prototype and E2EDM Technology	D. Thomas
3(x)	Pilot projects and related development	Participants
4(1)	Data exchange requirements of WMO programmes: letter to presidents of TCs	Secretariat
4(x)	For each WMO Programme: (a) Data exchange and data management requirements (b) Current status and future development of data exchange and data management components	Participants
5	Coordination mechanisms for the FWIS development
5(1)	World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)	Secretariat
5(2)	Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS) extracts from the draft10-years implementation plan	Secretariat
6	Future activities