Expert Team on WIS-GTS Communication Techniques and Structure

Info on the meeting

Location: Geneva
Date: 21 Sep - 24 Sep 2010
Registration: 9am. Meeting 9:30am
Meeting Room: Press Room
Co-Chairs: Ichijo Hiroyuki, Giraud Remy
WMO contacts: Peiliang Shi, Timo Proescholdt

Register for the meeting

Core members will be sent an official invitation. Associate members are also welcome to register by submitting a form
Upon receipt of a request, the secretariat will coordinate with the chair to arrange for an invitation to be sent to the member's WMO Permanent Representative requesting participation of the member.

Reference documents

• ET-CTS TORs
• Final report of the ET-CTS meeting in Toulouse
• ET-CTS_Work_Plan(16Jul2010).xls

Final report

Draft report

Working documents

Should be submitted untill Friday 3rd of September.

1. ORGANIZATION OF THE MEETING

• Information for participants
• List of participants
• Provisional agenda and document plan

1.1. Opening of the meeting

1.2. Adoption of the agenda

1.3. Working arrangements

* Workplan

2. REVIEW OF THE CURRENT STATUS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF TCP/IP PROCEDURES AND APPLICATIONS AT GTS CENTRES

Note: To avoid having all the presentation at the same moment, the presentations will be spread over the 4 days (Please limit your presentation to 15’ maximum).

2.1. Status RTH Offenbach (provided by Ilona Glaser)

2.2. Status RTH Melbourne (provided by Ian Senior)

2.3. Status RTH Tokyo | Presentation (provided by by Kenji Tsunoda)

2.4. Status NMC RSMC Montreal (provided by Jean-Francois Gagnon)

2.5. Status of RTH BuenosAires (provided by Jose Luis Gianni –Argentina)

3. RECOMMENDED PRACTICES FOR DATA COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES

3.1. Development of Guidance on “push” and “pull” technologies for use in WIS ( Document )

3.2. Review of the status and advice on adoption of IPv6 (Provided by by Hongliang Lang and Hugues Ayina)

4. REVIEW AND DEVELOP UPDATES TO RECOMMENDED PRACTICES FOR DATA-COMMUNICATION AND DATA ACCESS PROCEDURES

4.1. Study procedure for priority messages (e.g. tsunami warnings) (GTS and WIS) ( Presentation ) (provided by Ian Senior)

4.2. Investigate blog technologies for use in GISC synchronisation (provided by Tatsuya Noyori)

5. REVIEW OF GUIDANCE MATERIALS FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF DATA COMMUNICATION FACILITIES AT WWW CENTRES

5.1. Review of Guide on Information Technology Security (ITS) at WWW centres

5.2. Review of Guide on Internet Practices

5.3. Update of the Guide on Virtual Private Network (VPN via the Internet between GTS centres (Provided by Ilona Glaser)

5.4. Update of the Attachment II-15 of the Manual on the GTS (Presentation ) (Provided by Jean-François Gagnon)

5.5. Update the Attachment II-16 of the Manual on the GTS (Clarification, Presentation) (Provided by Kenji Tsunoda)

6. DEVELOP THE ORGANIZATION AND DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR THE WIS DATA COMMUNICATION STRUCTURE, AND RELATED CONSIDERATION MATTERS

6.1. Review and further develop the organizational and design document for WIS data communication structure

6.2. Report on the consolidation of two IMTN clouds (migration of the current “cloud 1” to the RMDCN) (Provided by Remy Giraud)

6.3. Study the reasonable maximum number of GISCs from the view of necessary bandwidth based on estimate traffic volume (annex)

6.4. Develop a list of synchronisation protocols among GISCs (Provided by Hiroyuki ICHIJO in cooperation with Markus HEENE, LI Xiang and TOYODA Eizi )

6.5. Guidance on administrative and contractual aspects of data communication services for WIS implementation: the example of the RMDCN in RA VI (Provided by Remy Giraud)

7. WIS PLAN AND ROADMAP (JOINT SESSION WITH ET-OI)

7.1. Offical Documents of the WIS (Manual on WIS, and Guide to WIS) (Presentation) (contributed by Eliot Christian)

7.2. Implementation of the file-naming convention ( Report ) (from ET-OI Doc 4.5.1)

8. ANY OTHER BUSINESS

• Discussion on the working method within the WG and the plan for the coming months and years
• Relevance and future use of social networking

9. CLOSURE OF THE MEETING