[LEAPSECS] USNO has one web server back up

[Demetrios Matsakis]

Good  news - the USNO’s Earth Orientation department has solved its Information Assurance problems and now has its public web service fully functional.

I am told that the USNO’s Precise Time department is also working on getting its web server at tycho.usno.navy.mil to be IA-compliant.   It will not happen tomorrow, but the success of the EO department is encouraging.

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> From: central_bureau at iers.org
> Subject: IERS Message No. 450: Announcement of new IERS RS/PC website
> Date: February 14, 2022 at 12:58:00 AM EST
> To: messages at iers.org
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> IERS Message No. 450                                   February 14, 2022
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> 
> Announcement of new IERS RS/PC website
> 
> 
> The U.S. Naval Observatory's Earth Orientation department is pleased to
> announce the re-opening of the official IERS Rapid Service / Prediction
> Center website at the following URL address:
> 
> https://maia.usno.navy.mil
> 
> Starting Feb 10, 2022, this site will be the primary public source for
> data products published by the IERS Rapid Service / Prediction Center,
> as well as the primary source for announcements and information
> concerning those products. Data products may be found through browsing
> the site, or downloaded directly from the main product index at
> https://maia.usno.navy.mil/ser7/
> 
> In addition to the overhauled website design, we have also made our
> services more robust and secure:
> 
> * We have moved to distributing our products via HTTPS for increased
> data integrity and security of data transmission. Please note that the
> unsecured HTTP protocol is no longer supported.
> 
> * Our website and data are now hosted on an Amazon Web Services Cloud
> environment, improving server up-time and reliability.
> 
> * We have consolidated our publication servers to a single instance,
> removing any confusion over the "best" server to use. The former backup
> site (toshi.nofs.navy.mil) has been retired and will not be returning.
> 
> * A new version of the EO Matrix Calculator web application with an
> improved interface is now available at
> https://maia.usno.navy.mil/matrix-calculator
> 
> During the outage, we hope you were able to continue receiving our
> products through the IERS Data and Information System or through NASA
> CDDIS, which graciously provided mirrors for our data while our main
> site was down. While this was not ideal for some customers, we thank you
> for your patience and understanding while we made several improvements
> to our website. All data products will continue to be uploaded to the
> IERS mirrors at www.iers.org and ftp.iers.org as well as the CDDIS
> mirror at https://cddis.nasa.gov/archive/products/iers/, so users should
> not expect any of their current links or data retrieval scripts to
> break. However, we encourage users to review their options and begin
> transitioning to https://maia.usno.navy.mil as their primary source if
> this new site meets their needs, as this site will receive our
> publications more promptly and directly, and does not require login to
> any user accounts as in the case of NASA CDDIS.
> 
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