[W3GV] FCC Universal Licensing System to be Down for Maintenance

[Robert]

On 8/25/2015 11:41 AM, Ucdavid--- via W3GV wrote:
> FCC Universal Licensing System, Other Applications to be Down for
> Maintenance
>
> FCC website maintenance in early September will make  the Universal
> Licensing System (ULS), the Electronic Comment Filing System  (ECFS),
> the Electronic Document Management System (EDOCS) and other  public
> applications unavailable for more than 5 days. The Commission  said
> the outage will begin at 2200 UTC on Wednesday, September 2,  and
> continue through the Labor Day weekend. The maintenance work should
> be  completed by 1200 UTC on Tuesday, September 8. During the ULS
> outage, it will  not be possible to file any Amateur Radio
> applications.
>
> "[M]ost  Commission resources normally accessible through the
> Commission's website,  including access to all electronic filing
> systems and electronic dockets,  will be inaccessible for the same
> period, with the exception of the Network  Outage Reporting System
> (NORS), the Consumer Help Center (CHC), and the  Disaster Information
> Reporting System (DIRS), which will remain available,"  an FCC Public
> Notice said on August 20. "The Commission's website will  remain
> available, but with reduced content and limited  search
> capabilities." According to the Public Notice, the FCC will  follow
> its normal schedule of operation during the maintenance period,  but
> voicemail will be offline, and most Commission staffers will not
> have  access to e-mail. Static content webpages on the fcc.gov
> domain, such as the  FCC consumer guides, should remain available
> during the outage.
>
> The  FCC will extend filing deadlines for all regulatory and
> enforcement filings  that fall during the maintenance period. Filings
> due on September 2, 3, 4, or  8 now will be due on Wednesday,
> September 9. "Except for the due dates  specified herein, we are not
> automatically extending the deadlines for any  other comment or
> filing periods that will be running during this time period,  but
> requests for extension of time will be considered consistent with
> the  Commission's normal practice," the FCC Public Notice said. "To
> the extent the  due dates for filings to which reply or responsive
> pleadings are allowed are  affected by this Public Notice, the due
> dates for reply or responsive  pleadings shall be extended by the
> same number of days."
>
> In a blog,  "Modernizing the FCC's IT," FCC CIO David Bray said that
> with the world and  the technology we use are changing rapidly, "the
> information technology used  by the Federal Communications Commission
> must change as well." Bray said the  FCC has "made significant
> progress to upgrade and modernize our  infrastructure, and we
> continue to work on modernizing the FCC's legacy IT  systems with the
> resources we have available."
>
> "We understand that  this temporary downtime before and during the
> Labor Day Weekend may be  inconvenient for some FCC stakeholders,"
> Bray  added.
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*Dave please change my e-mail address to k3sbu at verizon.net---Bob*


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