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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155cc;background:white">NOAA IDP-GIS Status Message</span></b></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155cc;background:white">9:00 AM EST Thursday, January 19, 2017</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155cc;background:white">The restriction of access to IDP-GIS map services to only HTTPS has been implemented.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155cc;background:white">At your earliest convenience, please update all bookmarks and application references to use the HTTPS address: </span><a href="https://idpgis.ncep.noaa.gov"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155cc;background:white">https://idpgis.ncep.noaa.gov</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155cc;background:white">Additional information:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155cc;background:white">The U.S. Office of Management and Budget required that all federal government public-facing federal websites transition to serving data via only Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) by the end of 2016. Due to this requirement, IDP-GIS’s map services are NO LONGER available via unsecured HTTP.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155cc;background:white">IDP-GIS mapservice viewers are now automatically redirected to the HTTPS site URL. However all client applications, including but not limited to JavaScript or FLEX-based web mapping sites; web-based map portal references, such as ArcGIS Online; and desktop GIS applications with direct references to the old URL should switch to use </span><a href="https://idpgis.ncep.noaa.gov"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155cc;background:white">https://idpgis.ncep.noaa.gov</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155cc;background:white">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155cc;background:white">Therefore, <b>we highly recommend that IDP-GIS users and partners switch to using HTTPS to access IDP-GIS map services immediately</b>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155cc;background:white">Please contact us at </span><a href="mailto:idp.gis.support@noaa.gov"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155cc;background:white">idp.gis.support@noaa.gov</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155cc;background:white"> with any questions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155cc;background:white">Nipa Parikh</span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155cc;background:white">IDP-GIS Project</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#1f497d">********************************************************<br><b>Nipa Parikh, PMP</b><br>IT Specialist, Office of Dissemination<br>NOAA Integrated Dissemination Program (IDP)<br>1325 East-West Hwy<br>SSMC2, #12320<br>Silver Spring, MD, 20910<br>301-427-9428 (W)</span></i><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#222222"><br></span></i><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#1f497d">410-841-8292 (C)<br><a href="mailto:Nipa.Parikh@noaa.gov" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Nipa.Parikh@noaa.gov</span></a></span></i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#222222"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#1f497d">*********************************************************</span></i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#222222"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>