Message Scheme

COMMS-ID MESSAGE XR-00 Updated April 13, 2001

              Message Scheme - NWS Communications Identifier 
                            Implementation Plan

THE FILES LISTED BELOW ARE POSTED WITH THE INDICATED IDENTIFICATION.
THESE FILES WILL BE KEPT CURRENT AND NOTICES WILL BE SENT WHENEVER
UPDATES ARE MADE. THIS ESTABLISHES SPECIFIC FILES WHERE SPECIFIC 
INFORMATION WILL ALWAYS BE FOUND. THIS HAS BEEN DONE TO MAKE NWS
COMMUNICATIONS IDENTIFIER IMPLEMENTATION INFORMATION MORE READILY 
AVAILABLE AND TO SIMPLIFY UPDATING THIS INFORMATION.


THIS SERIES OF CROSS-REFERENCE LISTS WILL USE MESSAGE IDS OF XR-00
THROUGH XR-NN.  NN WILL BE INCREMENTED AS NEEDED.

MESSAGE ID                 DESCRIPTION

COMMS-ID MESSAGE XR-00   COMMS-IDENTIFIER MESSAGES SCHEME

COMMS-ID MESSAGE XR-04   CATEGORY/TT-ii CROSS-REFERENCE BY NNN

COMMS-ID MESSAGE XR-05   CATEGORY/TT-ii CROSS-REFERENCE BY TT

COMMS-ID MESSAGE XR-06   ii VS STATE CROSS-REFERENCE LIST

COMMS-ID MESSAGE XR-07   CENTER IDENTIFIERS LIST

COMMS-ID MESSAGE XR-08   CCCC IDENTIFIERS LIST

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CHANGE AND UPDATE NOTICES / OTHER INFORMATION OR MESSAGES

INFORMATION CONCERNING COMMUNICATIONS IDENTIFIERS WILL BE DISTRIBUTED
IN DATA MANAGEMENT MESSAGES.  THE IDS OF THESE MESSAGES ARE IN THE FORM 

    MM-YY.NN TEXT DESCRIPTION

MM IS THE MONTH AND YY IS THE YEAR OF ISSUANCE AND NN IS INCREMENTED AS
NEEDED BEGINNING WITH 01 FOR THE FIRST MESSAGE OF EACH MONTH.  AN EXAMPLE IS
PROVIDED BELOW.

MESSAGE ID                 DESCRIPTION

DATA MGT MESSAGE 05-00.4   WMO Heading Changes for Southern Region Offices 

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THIS MESSAGE AND ALL FOLLOWING MESSAGES WILL BE AVAILABLE
ON THE NWS SYSTEMS OPERATIONS CENTER CHANGE NOTICES WEB
PAGE AT THE FOLLOWING URL.

NOTE THE URL SHOULD BE TYPED IN ALL LOWER CASE.

     http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oso/notices/notices.shtml

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE
ANY FEEDBACK PLEASE CONTACT

FRED BRANSKI
TEAM LEADER FOR DATA MANAGEMENT

 PHONE 301-713-0864 EXTENSION 146
 EMAIL fred.branski@noaa.gov