RE: Homeland Security now wants to restrict outage notifications

[Scott McGrath <mcgrath () fas harvard edu>]

I did read the article and having worked for gov't agencies twice in my
career a proposal like the one floated by DHS is just the camel's nose.

I should hope the carriers oppose this.

Now a call comes into our ops center "I cant reach my experiment at
Stanford".  Ops looks up the outages Oh yeah there's a fiber cut affecting
service we will let you know when it's fixed.   They check it's fixed they
call the customer telling them to try it now.

Under the proposed regime "We know its dead do not know why or when it
will be fixed because it' classified information"  This makes for
absolutely wonderful customer service and it protects public safety how?.



                            Scott C. McGrath

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Tad Grosvenor wrote:

> Did you read the article?  The DHS is urging that the FCC drop the proposal
> to require outage reporting for "significant outages."   This isn't the DHS
> saying that outage notifications should be muted.  The article also
> mentions: "Telecom companies are generally against the proposed new
> reporting requirements, arguing that the industry's voluntary efforts are
> sufficient."
>
> -Tad
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of
> Scott McGrath
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 12:58 PM
> To: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Homeland Security now wants to restrict outage notifications
>
>
>
> See
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/24/network_outages/
>
> for the gory details.  The Sean Gorman debacle was just the beginning
> this country is becoming more like the Soviet Union under Stalin every
> passing day in its xenophobic paranoia all we need now is a new version of
> the NKVD to enforce the homeland security directives.
>
>                             Scott C. McGrath