Topic: Shutdown of Data Distribution Server (DDS)
Date/Time Issued: May 10, 2018 1700 UTC
Product(s) or Data Impacted: All products currently distributed on DDS
Date/Time of Initial Impact: June 19, 2018 1500 UTC
Date/Time of Expected End: None
Length of Outage: Ongoing change
Details and Specifics of Change: As the final step in decommissioning the DDS system, user access to DDS will be shutoff on Tuesday, June 19, 2018 at 1500 UTC.
On January 22, 2018, PDA was declared as the primary distribution server for all legacy data, and support to DDS was dropped to 8x5. All legacy data has been available on PDA since Sep 13, 2017.

External data providers to DDS may shut off their delivery to DDS anytime after Tuesday, June 12, 2018. (Contact donna.mcnamara@noaa.gov if you need to do this sooner.)
Please note - Any DDS users who have not been re-validated for PDA access may complete and submit a Data Access Request (DAR) form. The DAR form is available at the website listed below.
Contact Information for Further Information: email: NESDIS.Data.Access@noaa.gov for DAR submission or other questions
Web Site(s) for applicable information: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Organization/About/access.html
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