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 WIS, Vol II, WIS 2.0.

    • 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 TLD list can be found here

  • centre name: may contain dashes (but not other special characters). 

  • Guidance on assigning a Centre Identifier for a WIS2 Node can also be found here

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: 2 July 2024)