Data Center Response Form
             Joint CSTG/IERS Call for Participation
       International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry

Data Center name:	Crustal Dynamics Data Information System (CDDIS)	

Parent/Funding organization:	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Name and title of primary technical contact:	Carey E. Noll		

Name and title of administrative contact:	Carey E. Noll		

Mailing address:	Code 922, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771		

Phone:	301-286-9283		Fax:	301-286-0213		

E-mail address:	noll@cddis.gsfc.nasa.gov		

Web address:	http://cddisa.gsfc.nasa.gov/cddis_welcome.html	

Indicate which IVS Network Stations, Operation Centers, 
Correlators, and Analysis Centers you will support:	Any/all								
Internet connection type or bit rate:	multi
Data storage capacity:	~20 Gb (for VLBI)

Mirror sites planned:	Other data centers							
Describe any planned facility upgrades:	Additional disk space				
Number of full-time-equivalent personnel assigned to data center functions:	0.5 FTE	

Indicate and explain briefly which of the following IVS Data Center 
functions you will perform:
	Receive and archive schedule files
	Receive and archive log files
	Receive and archive data products
	Provide public access to IVS data products
The CDDIS proposes to participate in all the above activities.				
Attach a list of personnel (names and titles) whom you designate as 
IVS Associate Members through their affiliation with your data center.
Ms. Carey E. Noll, Manager, CDDIS
Dr. Maurice P. Dube, Senior Programmer
Ms. Ruth Kennard, Request Coordinator

Please provide any other information that you feel will be helpful in 
demonstrating the capabilities of your data center to participate in the IVS. 

The CDDIS has been an archive and distribution center for VLBI data since 
its inception in 1982.  Recently, the CDDIS has provided a home for all 
historic and current VLBI data sets, providing both ftp and web access 
to these data.  The CDDIS has set up disk areas to accommodate a variety 
of VLBI ancillary information, such as log files and schedules.	

Your signature on this form indicates your agreement to participate in the 
IVS as a Data Center and to work closely with the IVS Coordinating Center. 
If this is a new proposal (i.e. not carried over from IERS) your signature 
commits your organization to participate in the IVS.

Name of person signing:	
         Carey E. Noll		Title:	CDDIS Manager	
         John Bosworth          Title:  Associate Chief, Laboratory for
                                        Terrestrial Physics

Signature:	_______________________________	Date: ___________________