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Subject: [IGSMAIL-4951]: IERS Conventions Center: New discussion forum and web site.
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IGS Electronic Mail      15 Jun 07:51:39 PDT 2004      Message Number 4951
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Author: G=E9rard Petit and Dennis D. McCarthy

-----Original Message-----
From: IERS CB
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 11:00 AM
To: 'messages@iers.org'
Subject: IERS Message No. 58: IERS Conventions Center: New discussion
forum and web site.


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IERS Message No. 58                                           June 15,
2004
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IERS Conventions Center: New discussion forum and web site.

The IERS Conventions center has developed a Discussion Forum and a new
web
and ftp site for the IERS Conventions, on a server at the BIPM.

1) The user discussion forum http://tai.bipm.org/iers/forum/
is open for users to offer their comments, criticism, and suggestions
regarding the update of the IERS Conventions. It is organized in
themes following the present structure of the IERS Conventions (2003).

To post a contribution it is necessary to be registered.
Registration is a very simple procedure. It is only necessary to provide
a login_name and password, and a valid e-mail address. It is recommended
that the login_name be representative of your real name because
the login_name is used to identify the authors of contributions.

Reading the contributions is open and anonymous.

A number of contributions have been posted in advance of the public=20
opening by Jim Ray in order to stimulate discussions. Responses and new=20
contributions are welcome.

2) The new ftp site ftp://tai.bipm.org/iers/ has two directories:
* ftp://tai.bipm.org/iers/conv2003/ is a mirror of the usual ftp site
  ftp://maia.usno.navy.mil/conv2003/ containing all files of the=20
  Conventions (2003) (Note that as of June 4, 2004 the pdf files of the=20
  chapters have not been updated on the USNO site).
* ftp://tai.bipm.org/iers/convupdt/ is used to store material relative
to
  future updates of the IERS Conventions.

3) The new web site http://tai.bipm.org/iers/ has two main pages:
* http://tai.bipm.org/iers/conv2003/conv2003.html which ultimately
points
  to the material of the Conventions (2003).
* http://tai.bipm.org/iers/convupdt/convupdt.html which is used for=20
  Conventions updates.
It is planned to save all the information on successive updates
incrementing in the pages of each chapter. See an example version in
http://tai.bipm.org/iers/convupdt/convupdt_c5.html

G=E9rard Petit and Dennis D. McCarthy
IERS Conventions Center


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