IP: FCC's NRIC to look at ISP Network Reliability

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

> Date:         Fri, 17 Mar 2000 21:46:08 -0400
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> The first meeting of NRIC V will take place Monday March 20 from 10:00am
> to 12:30pm at the Federal Communications Commission, 445 12th Street,
> SW, Room TW-C305, Washington, DC.  Frequently there are real audio feeds
> of these things.
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> NRIC V's Charter is now online at http://www.nric.org/charter_v.html
> Please note the following from the charter:
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> 2. Network Reliability.
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> (a) The Committee will evaluate, and report on, the reliability of
> public telecommunications network services in the United States,
> including the reliability of packet switched networks.
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> . . . . .
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> (c) During the charter of the previous Committee, interested
> participants recommended that the FCC adopt a voluntary reporting
> program, administered by the National Communications System, to gather
> outage data for those telecommunications and information [Internet]
> service providers not currently required to report outages. The
> Committee will monitor this process, analyze the data obtained from the
> voluntary trial and report on the efficacy of that process, as well as
> the on-going reliability of such services.
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