Advisory
Circular
U.S. Department
of Transportation
Federal Aviation
Administration
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Subject: INTERNET COMMUNICATIONS OF Date: 11/1/02 AC No.: 00-62
AVIATION WEATHER AND NOTAMS Initiated by: ARS-100
1. PURPOSE
. This Advisory Circular (AC) describes the process for any person or organization that
provides access to aviation weather and Notices to Airmen (NOTAMs) via the Public Internet to become
a Qualified Internet Communications Provider (QICP).
The FAA Aerospace Weather Standards Division (ARS-200) is responsible for establishing and
maintaining a current list of all QICPs on a designated Web page accessible by the general public.
This AC pertains only to Internet communications
between a civil aviation user and a QICP. This AC
addresses data quality only to the extent of considering QICP security practices to protect data from
unauthorized modification and encouraging the identification of the operational or experimental status of
QICP products. The FAA Web page containing the current list of all QICPs contains a notice that being
listed as a QICP does not mean that the quality of the QICP data (e.g., accuracy, timeliness or content) is
certified or otherwise approved by the FAA.
Like all advisory material, this AC is not mandatory and does not constitute a regulation. Definitions
used in this AC are contained in Appendix 1.
2. GENERAL
. A person or organization that accomplishes and maintains the following as they pertain
to the provider's facility (i.e., all hardware, software and Internet connectivity under the applicant’s direct
control) may become an approved QICP:
a. Reliability means users are able to retrieve requested data from the provider with no outage
lasting longer than 10 minutes, and no more than 30 minutes of total outages (including outages
due to maintenance) in any continuous 3-month period.
b. Accessibility means turnaround time within the provider's facility. The provider should be
capable of initiating transmission of requested data during transactions with 100% of its users
within 2 minutes.
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