Update #2: Terminate Ocean Color anonymous FTP service on May 2nd 2019 1400Z

Update#1: The termination of Ocean Color anonymous FTP service has been changed to May 1st 2019

Topic: Migration of Ocean Color anonymous FTP service to new (non-anonymous) FTPS service


Date/Time Issued: April 30, 2019 1917Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted: Data available via Ocean Color anonymous FTP


Date/Time of Initial Impact: May 01, 2019 1500Z


Date/Time of Expected End: None


Length of Outage: Permanent


Details/Specifics of Change: Due to the on-going vulnerabilities associated with non-secure file transfers, the Ocean Color anonymous FTP will be terminated on 05/01/2019 at 1500Z. All data will continue to be available through the Ocean Color FTPS server


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