Guidance on assigning a Centre Identifier for Global Services
Summary
- All Global Services operators have a centre-id, following the naming convention, indicated in the Guide to the WMO Information System (WMO-No. 1060), Volume II.
- As a convention, Global Broker centre-id will be tld-{centre-name}-global-broker
- As a convention,Global Cache centre-id will be tld-{centre-name}-global-cache.
- As a convention, GDC centre-id will be tld-{centre-name}-global-discovery-catalogue.
- As a convention, Global Monitor centre-id will be tld-{centre-name}-global-monitor.
- The index of top-level domains (TLDs) can be found here.
- centre name: may contain dashes (but no other special characters).
- Guidance on assigning a Centre Identifier for a WIS2 Node is also available.
| Global Services | Naming convention | Example |
| Global Broker | tld-{centre-name}-global-broker | fr-meteofrance-global-broker br-inmet-global-broker |
| Global Cache | tld-{centre-name}-global-cache | de-dwd-global-cache jp-jma-global-cache data-metoffice-noaa-global-cache |
| Global Discovery Catalogue | tld-{centre-name}-global-discovery-catalogue | ca-eccc-msc-global-discovery-catalogue cn-cma-global-discovery-catalogue |
| Global Monitor | tld-{centre-name}-global-monitor | ma-marocmeteo-global-monitor cn-cma-global-monitor |
(Last update: 7 March 2025)