IP: White House, Net experts seek to deter millennium bug fears Brock Meeks

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

Internet is Y2K ready… maybe            
                
White House, Net experts seek to deter millennium bug fears             
                
By Brock N. Meeks
MSNBC           

                
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 — The Internet’s core structure is expected to remain operational during the transition to the new 
year, unaffected by the infamous Year 2000 technology problem, a White House official said Tuesday after meeting with a 
group of Internet experts. That optimistic outlook, however, contains a soft-white underbelly: uncertainty. All 
assessments of Internet readiness addressing the Y2K problem are merely taken for granted; there are no independent 
audits to confirm the Internet’s readiness, the official admitted to MSNBC.          

REST AT http://www.msnbc.com/news/301678.asp