Dear Colleagues,

due to Jim's last e-mail we recognized that we missed to 
inform you about the current status of the ftp access for
the IERS Combination Pilot Project.

The ftp-server is now accepting active and passive 
connections. 
The information to connect to the server is:

ftp-server: iers1.bkg.bund.de
user:       combination
password:   cpp04

Please notice that anonymous login is currently denied.

To login via browser you can use the following link:

ftp://combination:cpp04@iers1.bkg.bund.de

Automatic retrieving of files is also possible; for example
to download the file "igs04060p7_01.sum.Z" by using the 
program wget using the command:

wget "ftp://combination:cpp04@iers1.bkg.bund.de/intra-technique/GPS/2004/igs04060p7_01.sum.Z"

You can use a "*" in the file name to receive multiple files.

Additionally, the development of a bulletin board to indicate
the newest files in the archive is in progress. Hopefully, this
will be realized by the end of next week.

In case your contributions to the combination pilot project are
not in the archive, please let us know where to download them.

With best regards,

Wolfgang Schwegmann

__________________________________________
Wolfgang Schwegmann
IERS Central Bureau

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie
Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy
Richard-Strauss-Allee 11
D-60598 Frankfurt am Main
Internet: http://www.iers.org

Tel: # 49-69-6333-314
Fax: # 49-69-6333-425
Email: schwegmann@iers.org


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Ray [mailto:jray@bipm.org]
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 9:01 AM
> To: cpp@iers.org
> Subject: status of CPP ?
> 
> 
> Following are some questions and comments about the current
> status of the IERS Combination Pilot Project.  If anybody
> can respond, I would appreciate it very much.
> 
> * website -- The IERS has a website at
>   http://www.iers.org/iers/about/wg/wg3/cfp_cpp.html
> but it contains no new information since the time the CPP
> proposals were submitted.  There is a separate site at TUM
> but it also contains no new information.  There is no public
> indication that I can find that the CPP is actually underway;
> no IERS Message has ever been sent.  In particular, I would
> expect to find the information provided in the letter from
> Markus on 04 April concerning location of data files, naming
> conventions, etc.
> 
> * communications -- The cpp@iers.org e-mail exploder seems to
> be dormant (except for this message and the one from Zuheir
> and me last month).  I can find no message archive.
> 
> * Nice meeting -- I did not see any summary of the Nice
> splinter meeting nor any posting of the material presented
> there.  This is unfair to the people who prepared material
> and to those who could not attend.
> 
> * downloading data files -- Access to the data system via
> active ftp only is extremely inconvenient.  It should be
> accessible via any browser or wget.  When I try to navigate
> the site manually, I can find no data files now.  Earlier
> there seemed to be IGS GPS solution files and DORIS solutions
> from Pascal.  Now the intra-technique directories all seem to
> terminate in an inaccessible "bkg" directory.  Even if the
> current system actually contained data files, it would not
> be possible to use it for any practical purposes because
> automated access is necessary.
> 
> * solution types -- As Zuheir and I emphasized at the Nice
> meeting, it is essential (not simply desirable) to have
> long time series of technique solutions.  No meaningful
> inter-technique combinations are possible until several
> time series are available, as long as possible.
> 
> * workshop -- The question of a Fall workshop was raised in
> the CPP CfP and in Nice but no further information has been
> provided.  While a splinter meeting might be useful, a full
> workshop seems pointless to me without at least 6 months
> time to process and examine some long solution sets.
> 
> If I have misunderstood anything, please accept my regrets
> and please correct me.  Best regards,
> --Jim
> 
> 
>