Looks like everything's back up and running at NIST, as of 16.40 ET:

http://ts.nist.gov/ts/htdocs/200/202/mpo_home.htm

Nat


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of James R. Frysinger
Sent: Monday, 2001 July 23 17:08
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:14571] Re: metric usage at www.whyfiles.org


Yes, much of the information that used to reside on the Metric Program
Office site has now migrated to the Physics site, as Bill describes
below. Nonetheless, the Metric Program Office site
   http://ts.nist.gov/ts/htdocs/200/202/mpo_home.htm
returns a 404 error, even when attempts are made to open in from the
alphabetical listing on NIST's main pages. For example, from
   http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/siteindex.htm

There has been some reorganization in this area and I suspect that all
the bits and pieces have not yet been put in their new places.

I am a bit concerned that I didn't see any reference to the MPO on the
Office of Weights and Measures page at
   http://ts.nist.gov/ts/htdocs/230/235/owmhome.htm
It seems to me that this would have been a logical place to put a highly
visible link to the MPO. But I did go to
   http://www.ts.nist.gov/
and that gave me a link to
   http://ois.nist.gov/tsweb/orglinks.cfm?DivisionNo=202
On that page is "202 Metric Programs" and a description of the MPO,
headed by Gerry Iannelli. The link on that page
   http://ts.nist.gov/ts/htdocs/200/202/mpo_home.htm
is also broken, though.

I still think they are rearranging wires and hyperlinks; we've just
caught them in medias res.

Jim

Bill Potts wrote:
>
> Try http://physics.nist.gov.
>
> Most of their stuff moved to the "physics" zone some weeks ago. I updated
> all the links from SI Navigator at that time.
>
> Their reference material on Constants, Units and Uncertainty is now at
> http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/index.html.
>
> Bill Potts, CMS
> Roseville, CA
> http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > Behalf Of James R. Frysinger
> > Sent: July 23, 2001 13:00
> > To: U.S. Metric Association
> > Subject: [USMA:14566] Re: metric usage at www.whyfiles.org
> >
> >
> > Strange, Bruce. I called up there on other business and had hoped to ask
> > this question, too, but Jim McCracken is out of the office today.
> >
> > Perhaps they've had to turn it off due to hackers, equipment
> > reconfiguration, or some other reason. OTOH, that fire in the tunnel in
> > Baltimore wiped out a large optic cable trunk that normally carries a
> > lot of internet traffic. Perhaps part of the 'net is down to repair
> > that.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > Bruce Raup wrote:
> > >
> > > Another web-site related exchange.  BTW, what happened to the
> > NIST Metric
> > > Program Office site, which used to be at http://www.nist.gov/metric ?
> > >
> > > Bruce
> >
> > --
> > Metric Methods(SM)           "Don't be late to metricate!"
> > James R. Frysinger, CAMS     http://www.metricmethods.com/
> > 10 Captiva Row               e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Charleston, SC 29407         phone/FAX:  843.225.6789
> >

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Metric Methods(SM)           "Don't be late to metricate!"
James R. Frysinger, CAMS     http://www.metricmethods.com/
10 Captiva Row               e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Charleston, SC 29407         phone/FAX:  843.225.6789


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