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    All, <br>
    I have been monitoring the discussion and have decided to vote NO.
    Although there are numerous difficulties with the current set up, I
    think we need to listen to the concerns raised by the communities
    that use the codes we are managing. There needs to be more
    discussion about how to come to some reasonable accommodation for
    both the code managers and the communities that we are trying to
    support.<br>
    Best regards,<br>
    Don Collins<br>
    NOAA/National Centers for Environmental Information<br>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/29/16 10:17 AM, Neil Holdsworth
      wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal">Dear Platform Group,<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">Please respond to this proposal with a
          “Yes” to accept the proposal or “No” to reject the proposal by
          close of business February 12. No reply will be considered as
          a “Yes”.<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">ICES has been assigning codes for JCOMMOP
          vessels for the past 4 months. This has given us the
          opportunity to test and re-evaluate the effectiveness of the
          Platform code system now that the predominant platform class
          has moved from research vessels to ships of opportunity. We
          are finding that these vessels are changing name, flag, and
          owner much more often than research vessels and according to
          the current Platform Decision Tree, some vessels will need 5-6
          codes in their data collecting lifetime. We believe that this
          is an unnecessary complication, especially for vessels which
          have IMO numbers since IMO numbers never change and can be
          used for tracking.<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><i>We would like to propose focusing on
            identification of a given platform which follows the hull
            and not the country of any governance (flag, owner or
            institute). We will keep track of the governance histories
            of the platform in the platform request system.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span
              style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">In order to do this, we propose:<o:p></o:p></p>
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            style="font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span
              style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
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              </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
            style="color:black">a new attribute for “Operational
            Governance”. It will allow multiples and will be based on
            EDMO codes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoListParagraph"
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          <!--[if !supportLists]--><span
            style="font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span
              style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
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            style="color:black">replace the decision tree with a
            simplified process<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoListParagraph"
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          <!--[if !supportLists]--><span
            style="font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span
              style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
                &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">        
              </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
            style="color:black">an update to vocab.ices.dk to offer a
            clear linking between related platform codes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span
              style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
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            style="color:black">to only create codes based on a random
            generated unique identifier (see development history)
            <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">The decision process will be as follows:<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">If
            there is an IMO number:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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              style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
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              </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
            style="color:black">Attribute “Country”, i.e. Flag of
            country where platform is registered, is mandatory.
            <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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              style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
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            style="color:black">The flag and call sign will be set for
            the current registration of the platform.
            <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">If
            there is no IMO number:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoListParagraph"
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          level1 lfo1">
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            style="font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span
              style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
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              </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
            style="color:black">Attribute “Operational Governance” is
            mandatory and designated by EDMO codes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          <!--[if !supportLists]--><span
            style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span
              style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
                &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">        
              </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
            style="color:black">When the flag/call sign/MMSI/Notes etc.
            changes, the attributes will be updated. Name changes will
            be documented in the “Note” attribute as “Built as name,
            became name 2 in xxxx, name 3 in yyyy, name 4 in zzzz etc.".
            The “Previous name” attribute will have the latest previous
            name. The previous flag/call sign attributes will be
            “unaccepted” but kept on the Attribute History page to aid
            user searching and kept on the Action History page for
            tracking</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">For
            both cases above:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoListParagraph"
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          level1 lfo1">
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            style="font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span
              style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
                &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">        
              </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
            style="color:black">A code will be assigned as a random
            generated unique identifier and it will not change.
            <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">Neil<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Development history<o:p></o:p></b></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">When ICES first started assigning platform
          codes, the majority of codes were for research vessels which
          were collecting nationally funded monitoring data or project
          data. The system was based on the assumption that these
          national data were collected by their national vessels so the
          first two digits of the codes designated country.
          <o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">ICES then became part of the SeaDataNet
          project, new attributes were added and a decision tree was
          developed to determine what was needed to assign a code. The
          decision tree was accepted by the SeaDataNet Platform
          Governance Group after many discussions:<o:p></o:p></p>
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            <span
              style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif">should
              there be a country part of the code?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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            <span
              style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif">what
              type of governance should determine the country part of
              the platform code: owner of the vessel, Institute
              collecting the data, flag of the country where the vessel
              was registered?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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            <span
              style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif">Should
              an IMO code be added for identification when most research
              vessels can’t receive an IMO number?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
        </ul>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">Among
            other attributes, it was decided that
          </span>the vessels' flag should determine the country part of
          the code and IMO codes should be added when available.<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">As
          more platform classes were added to L06 (and therefore added
          to the platform request system), new situations and questions
          came up:<span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <ul type="disc">
          <li class="MsoNormal"
            style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
            level1 lfo2">
            <span
              style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif">what
              is the country when multiple Institutes from different
              countries share the vessel during the year or even share
              during the same cruise? See the </span>POGO initiative <span
              style="color:windowtext"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                href="http://www.pogo-oceancruises.org/content/content.asp?pageid=4">http://www.pogo-oceancruises.org/content/content.asp?pageid=4</a></span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
          <li class="MsoNormal"
            style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
            level1 lfo2">
            <span
              style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif">what
              is the country when multiple countries own the platform?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
        </ul>
        <p class="MsoNormal">In preparation for running out of codes and
          removing semantics from codes, in March 2010 it was decided by
          the platform group that the country part of the code could be
          abandoned and the codes extended although in practice we have
          continued to use the country as the first two digits of the
          four digit code.  <span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">In 2015, additional changes were made to
          accommodate JCOMMOPs vessels. It was decided that the codes
          would be extended to 6 digits once the current 4 digit system
          ran out of codes for a particular country, additional
          attributes were added and the possibility to add multiple
          countries was incorporated into the request program. Almost
          2000 platforms have since been requested by JCOMMOPs of which
          98% are Vessels of Opportunity. This has changed the
          predominant platform class of the platform code system. <o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                  style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span
style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;color:dimgray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Neil
                      Holdsworth</span></b><span
style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;color:gray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><br>
                    Head of Data and Information<br>
                    International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
                  </span><span
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style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;color:gray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">T:
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style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;color:gray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Don Collins

[NOTE: The opinions expressed in this email are those of the author alone and do not 
necessarily reflect official NOAA, Department of Commerce, or US government policy.]

Donald W. Collins
Oceanographer
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
(formerly NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center)
NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI
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