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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Homeland Security now wants to restrict outage notifications
I think you (and possibly The Register) are overreacting. The DHS is doing what it is paid to do: Look for the worst case scenario, predict the damage. And the reporting requirements that the DHS is arguing against _aren't even in effect yet._ ** Reply to message from Scott McGrath <[email protected]> on Thu, 24 Jun 2004 14:05:56 -0400 (EDT) > 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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > > Scott McGrath > > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 12:58 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Homeland Security now wants to restrict outage notifications > > > > > > > > See > > > > 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 > > > > -- Jeff Shultz A railfan pulls up to a RR crossing hoping that there will be a train.
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