Status of AI/Comment:   In Progress -- Reference: &nbps; Home Support Policy response

Update from 10/18/02 conference call:   (IN PROGRESS) RCS to draft Home Computing guidelines. Scott has just sent out draft to ITAC and needs feedback from group. CA has been through this already and developed guidelines. Scott is incorporating their guidelines and ideas into his draft. CO also has a home support policy and he has include the link in the draft. Katherine wants us to stay in compliance with bureau policy. Scott is reading the flexi-place policy that addresses home computing. The bureau policy requires users bring computers into office for support. Grady mentioned that the NY policy is that users use government computers. They pay for ISDN line. Katherine says this makes sense for people that do it frequently but what about the ad hoc user?

Update Dec 02:   Reference following two draft documents prepared by Jessica Alvarez:

• Recommended Policy for Dial-up (PPP or Point to Point Protocol) Connections (draft doc)
• Policy and Procedures for VPN Service (draft doc)

Update January 2003 -- Reference:   WRD Policy Memo No. 2003.03 -- Guidance for Support of USGS Employees and Contractors using Government Computers at Private Residences and/or Privately Owned Computers to Perform Government Duties.

Status of AI/Comment:   DONE - Brian sent it out to ITAC and the group approved the goal. No changes were suggested.

Status of AI/Comment:   DONE, 9/12/02

Status of AI/Comment:   10/18/02 -- HASS feedback: Jessie emailed Audrey Ishiiand is waiting for her reply. Sonja was also gathering input form field.

Katherine: Senior staff believes they have dealt with this by giving responsibility to disciplines. Lorna is working in a draft so that WRD can put pressure on the disciplines. I no longer have a unit to provide this support. I think it is important for Senior Staff to understand ramifications of their decision. There is a new team, Science Support Review Team, to handle these issues. Bill Sexton is the chair. (Bill Alley opinion is that if you develop a model you should support it but NRP does not want to do this, they do not have the support staff.) We will end up with varying levels of support now that disciplines have to support models.

Scott: It's going to take lots of attention. He likes Sonja.s approach; she alerts the disciplines when they put a report out referencing a specific model. The disciplines have to work with the authors of the models to make sure documentation is in place and updates are made available on the HASS page.

Somebody at NRP needs to get grounded as to what is going on out in the filed in regard to these models.

Modification to action item Sep2002.AL.4:   Jessie should send Ishii's feedback to Bill Sexton and cc Katherine and Bob Hirsh instead of just sending this feedback to Katherine.

12/02 update:   1) Senior Staff will address HASS next week to make a formal hand-off; 2) Katherine Lins will report back to ITAC on Sr. Staff decision.

Status of AI/Comment:   Update 12/18/02 from Susan Trapanese:   this will be discussed at the NatWeb combined work-group session in Jan 7-9, as a short discussion topic for brainstorming only, not for implementing with the first production release of NWIS-RT.

Update 1/27/03 from Colleen Babcock:   Colleen briefed ITAC on the discussion at the NATWEB meeting; and indicated that "essentially the NWIS RT team and NATWeb likes the idea of a "depot" with the sites setting up there own contingency plans for communication backup, but NWIS can not spend any time on it this year. The data from the non-GOES sites need to get into the sentry_depot directory for each district on the NWIS RT site. Several issues need to be resolved about securely writing to the NWIS RT systems" sent a brief status email.

Status of AI/Comment:   Completed

Status of AI/Comment:   Update 10/18/02 conf call:   Site Admin Training IN PROGRESS -- Jessie: I got feed back from Scott, Graig McHendrie and Nelson. Need to incorporate on their comments to make it final. Grady said that his Computer unit looked it over and though it was good.

Update 12/20/02:   See Computer Support Staff Training document (draft), compiled by Jessica Alvarez -- 1/27/03 update -- Still Pending

Status of AI/Comment:   Update 10/18/02 conf call:   DBA training- (PENDING) Scott: has been talking to Joe. They will work on it as soon as NWIS 4.2 conversion is done. Scott asked Colleen if the goal is to develop training for DBA. She agrees that this issue is on their radar screen. They hope to spread out the load of putting this training together. Colleen does not know how much time Greg Shank will have to work on this because his top priority is to handle NWISRT implementation. Colleen needs to find someone other than Greg to teach the course. She has someone in mind but has not discussed it with the person.

Update 1/27/03 conf call meeting:   Still pending/work in progress.

Update 4/18/03 conf call meeting:   Joel reported that he has spoken to Colleen, and she has Lynn (GW), Dorrie (QW), and Joel for Surface Water -- who will probably be able to hold the DB training in August 2003. Joel will setup a conf call with these folks to prepare an agenda for the training.

Status of AI/Comment:   DONE -- Sent 9/18/02 final list of NWIS database administrator duties

In addition to ITAC (CPAC) review and approval, this document was also reviewed by Colleen Babcock, Linda Gieger, and the discipline offices. Mark Nilles coordinated modifications by the discipline offices in November 2000. Mark gave ownership of this document over to Alan and NWIS prior to the Columbus meeting (January 2001). Alan was supposed to distribute the document "to all Senior managers distributions A,B,C, D, DC, CD, ETC". Was this done? The last e-mail I can find from Alan on this subject was sent in October 2000.

Status of AI/Comment:   DONE -- Reference: GCLAS STATUS AND FY03 PLANS

Status of AI/Comment:   1/27/02 update:   The SLEDS direction is negative (could be a funding problem). But the group feels that this action item should be cancelled.

Status of AI/Comment:   DONE -- Dave Lorenz made this fix in the Piper code and it will be included in the NWIS 4.2 release. Both James Robinson and James Kingsbury have been notified. -- 10/1/02

Status of AI/Comment:   DONE -- Scott will find email and forward to Jessie to include in notes. SWTAT. Most of us think that SWSTAT should only read flat files and not DWM files but this is not going to be taken out of the program.

Status of AI/Comment:   DONE -- In lieu of waiting for the next DIS Newsletter, Katherine sent an email to all WRD employees on 9/18/02, subject:   Secured Remote Access to USGS Internal Networks. In the memo, Katherine reminded employees to check the bulletin board weekly for important information since that is the distribution method of choice from the Office of Communications.

Status of AI/Comment:   DONE -- Feedback from group was that no changes needed to be made.

Status of AI/Comment:   DONE -- Katherine Lins provided the following response to this action item:

Carlyn is now on detail to NMD to perform these same functions for WRD and also to transfer her knowledge to the person who will be taking on these responsibilities for the Bureau. Her new home is in the Office of Business Development. It is in NMD but has a bureau role. (This is where CRADAs are reviewed and assistance is provided.) She has the same physical office and mail stop as far as I know. Standard procedures and Delegations of Authority are being prepared as a Survey Chapter revision by a bureau team and WRD is providing input. Additionally, I have the action to set up a meeting with the Technical Offices and Carlyn to discuss the OFA,s and how we expect to operate. I assume the Boundary Agreements may be discussed there as well, but for now at least Carlyn will continue to perform this function for the Districts.

Status of AI/Comment:   Update at 10/18/02 conf call:   (IN PROGRESS) Tom has recently revised the chart to include links to technical teams. No team members are listed but it shows the matrix. Do we want to see the list of members? This action item was for the benefit of ITAC in case we have to explain it to others. Katherine suggested this chart be posted on ITAC web page so that we can point the GIOs and Regions and other disciplines to this page.

DONE -- 11/14/02 Status:   Here are two documents that may satisfy this action item:

1. DIS Org Chart showing matrix relationships with GIO and technical teams
2. List of Core WRD DIS Technical Team members (TACs, etc.)

Status of AI/Comment:   DONE reference Montgomery Support Staff Awards

Status of AI/Comment:   Update at 10/18/02 conf call:   IN PROGRESS. Jessie: I sent out the ER IT plan to ITAC twice and have not received feedback. Last chance to comment is next week, the final plan will be presented to ERLT early November. You may skip the introduction and go straight to the problems and recommendations part. Let me know if any "issues/problems" have been overlooked or if you do not agree with any of the recommendations.
COMPLETED, 11/15/02

Status of AI/Comment:   Update at 10/18/02 conf call:   IN PROGRESS. Jessie: I have a 2 page draft that will be sent out to RCSers and the security team by the end of the day -- PENDING.

Update at 1/27/03 conf call meeting:   "still pending" but will try to complete before the February meeting.

4/18/03 update -- Pending.

8/15/03 update -- Pending. Garry Neverdon will send Jessie's draft to Maryjon McAvery for review and appropriate approval to send out to WRD SAs.

COMPLETED

Status of AI/Comment:   On the agenda again for February meeting.

Status of AI/Comment:   Update at 10/18/02 conf call:   PENDING, to be completed on Tuesday, 10/22. Charlie will give presentation instead of Mike. Katherine: Mike provided slides from the last presentation and Charlie is working on it.