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Part II. Phased Implementation Plan for DMAC5.9. The IOOS shall support web browsers Netscape and Microsoft Internet Explorer and othersTBD.5.10. The IOOS shall provide tools for remote content management of the portal structure.5.11. The portal shall provide links to relevant information such as tools available for generation ofthe metadata required for this specific system.5.12. The portal shall provide information on requirements for IOOS data providers.5.13. The portal shall provide links to the supporting organizations.5.14. The portal shall be easily modified to a new look and feel.5.15. The portal shall provide FAQs.5.16. The portal shall provide on-line documentation.5.17. The IOOS shall provide a mechanism to solicit and receive user feedback concerning the operationof the system, data quality, portal content, and other issues.5.17.1. User comments on data sets shall be accessible to IOOS staff for review.5.17.2. The user feedback mechanism shall provide a “Help” function.5.17.3. The user feedback mechanism shall provide a mechanism for Usage Tracking.2. Data Transport (DT) Requirements1. Overall requirement1.1. The DT shall support machine-to-machine interoperability with semantic meaning, i.e., theDT shall incorporate some collection of methodologies that promote the scripted exchange ofdata between computers, with all computers involved in a transaction capable of determiningboth the syntax and the semantics of the exchanged data without human intervention.1.2. The DT shall include an access method that is consistent with that which is referred to as “Webservices” in the literature.1.2.1. “A Web service is a software system identified by a Universal Resource Identifier 4 , whosepublic interfaces and bindings are defined and described using XML 5 .”1.3. Other Web services requirements TBD.4Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax, IETF RFC 2396, T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, L. Masinter, August 1998 (Seehttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt)5Web Services Glossary W3C Working Draft 14 November 2002 (See http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-gloss/)62