also NSIDC is shutting down FTP services

Posted Jan 29, 2017 20:28 UTC (Sun) by tnoo (subscriber, #20427)
Parent article: Shutting down FTP services (kernel.org)

this seems to be a trend

> NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC
DAAC) will transition data distribution protocols from FTP to HTTPS on 31 January 2017.