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Fast-track process; proposed updates and target dates
In response to a question regarding the Fast Track (FT) plan, Anna confirmed that it includes two cycles per year, scheduled for February/June and MayJuly/November. She emphasized the need to implement the changes as soon as possible, ensuring approval by the SC-IMT chairs before submission to the focal points.
Regarding the publication of WIS documents on GitHub, the meeting agreed on the following approach.
Approved documents will be published in the main branch.
Proposed changes will be managed in separate branches via pull requests.
Once reviewed and approved, changes will be merged into the FT branch before final integration.
Discussion on Metadata-id in Fast Track (if it can meet FT-2025-1 schedule)
(Enrico) It is important to know changes implementation impact
Formalisation of documentation for WIS2 alerting and monitoring - focus on practical information provided in the Guide, with updates to the Manual coming later (noting that as we’re not asking WIS2 Nodes to provide metrics only organisations providing global services and/or sensor centres are impacted) https://wmo-im.github.io/wis2-monitoring-events/standard/wis2-monitoring-events-DRAFT.html#_conformance
Decision: it is agreed to add a new appendix to WIS2 manual to be approved by INFCOM-4 (2026) and endorsed by Executive Council.
Action: Global Services are requested to review, internally agree on, and implement the document by autumn this year, without waiting for formal approval at INFCOM-4 and endorsement by the Executive Council in 2026. It is highly recommended that Global Services operators proceed with implementation as soon as possible
“Lifecycle” of technical guidance - i.e., what do we publish to the “cookbook”, to the Guide, to the Manual; and when/if we should “promote” technical information from cookbook->Guide->Manual
A discussion raised on the cookbook published on GitHub https://wmo-im.github.io/wis2-cookbook/cookbook/wis2-cookbook-DRAFT.html
It has been agreed that this is an important document, and we should focus on finding ways to consolidate it with additional recipes.
Regarding the client-side filtering for data subscriptions in WCMP2 part, it was agreed that this paragraph “ 3.4. Advertise client side filters for data subscriptions in WCMP2 and WNM”” to be implemented as soon as possible, not to wait for two years to implement.
Decision : this part shall go for FT-2025-2, to be an update in existing appendix WCMP2 in WIS2 manual, one additional recommendation of link
Action: ET-WISMD to review 3.4 part and draft a proposal for FT
Question: is the current wis2 cookbook ready for consumption by the public? (Answer: the cookbook still an informal document)
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