Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 10:56:27 -0400 From: "Jim.Ray" Subject: [IGSMAIL-5774]: U.S. Federal Register Notice on Semi-Codeless GPS Access To: IGSMail , Canadian Space Geodesy Forum Reply-to: jim.ray@noaa.gov Message-id: <482DA09B.5090401@noaa.gov> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) Sender: owner-igsmail Precedence: bulk ****************************************************************************** IGS Electronic Mail 16 May 07:56:34 PDT 2008 Message Number 5774 ****************************************************************************** Author: Jim Ray (forward of Dept. of Commerce notice) On 16 May 2008, the Office of Space Commercialization published a notice in the U.S. Federal Register requesting public comments (from U.S. and non-U.S.) on the U.S. Government's plan to phase out codeless and semi-codeless access to GPS by 31 December 2020. The government seeks to encourage the civilian user community to migrate to new GPS equipment utilizing the next-generation signals known as L2C and L5, as well as the current L1C/A. The deadline for submitting comments is 16 June 2008. All comments received will be posted for public viewing. The Office of Space Commercialization will review all comments received by the submission deadline and use them to inform ongoing government discussions regarding the transition plan for codeless and semi-codeless GPS access. Information about this notice is online at http://www.space.commerce.gov/gps/semicodeless/ .