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End of year freeze (Re: Y2k silly season)
by Sean Donelan 30 Dec '99

30 Dec '99

On Mon, 27 December 1999, Deepak Jain wrote: > Speaking of telephone style networks. Has anyone noticed significant > degradation in their cell/pager coverage/performance over the last couple > of weeks? What type of degradation? I haven't noticed any larger than normal problems. Many carriers have a end of year freeze on network changes. Although the freeze has been planned for a long time, I notice it didn't stop sales people from promising due dates during the freeze period. If you are expecting to see new service turned up on Dec 31, I don't think your odds are very good. Some of my friends at other carriers told me they had a big push to get a lot of changes into their networks before December 23 to beat the freeze.

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y2k call / infoline for the first timezones to switch over
by Jan Ahrent Czmok 29 Dec '99

29 Dec '99

Dear Collegues, did any conference exist for the first isps in the timezones who are switching over ? If yes, what are the appropiate websites / phone numbers ? Jan

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Re: y2k call / infoline for the first timezones to switch over
by Robert Cannon 29 Dec '99

29 Dec '99

Agreeing with Bill, you should also contact Izumi Aizu who is heading up an International Coordination Effort out of the Internet Association of Japan and the Asia and Pacific Internet Association. izumi(a)anr.org I would say his effort is very complimentary to Sean's, with a more Asian International focus. Izumi's invitation to participate in the International Center can be found on http://www.iaj.or.jp/y2kcc/invitation-e.html I guess he is calling it the Y2KCC/JP. The announcement says "To participate, please send e-mail to: y2kcc-intl(a)iaj.or.jp as soon as possible." -Robert Cannon Speaking Almost Entirely For Myself ------Original Message------ From: bmanning(a)vacation.karoshi.com To: Jan Ahrent Czmok <czmok(a)darwin.gigabell.net> Sent: December 29, 1999 3:29:00 PM GMT Subject: Re: y2k call / infoline for the first timezones to switch over > > > Dear Collegues, > > did any conference exist for the first isps in the timezones who are > switching over ? > > If yes, what are the appropiate websites / phone numbers ? > > Jan > Yes, there will be a conference call / coordination center for ISPs in the AP region. The coordination will be funnled through the ICC/IOPS site and I expect will be posted on Seans excellent notification mailing list. --bill ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com?sr=mc.mk.mcm.tag001

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More on Y2K "glitches"....
by Paul Ferguson 29 Dec '99

29 Dec '99

See: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33324,00.html - paul

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Re: More on Y2K "glitches"....
by Vern Paxson 29 Dec '99

29 Dec '99

> http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33324,00.html Hmmmm, a pretty misleading article. The headline is "The Glitches Start Marching In", but it reports exactly one glitch, the one we already heard about, and then has a nine-bullet list that the headline makes you think will be additional glitches, but in fact is a list of precautionary measures various people have taken. Vern

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Even Area 51 has DACS problems
by Sean Donelan 29 Dec '99

29 Dec '99

Sprint filed an outage report covering Area 51 (yes, that Area 51) last week. A circuit breaker was turned off disrupting 8 DS3s, long distance and "special services." Full details are not known. Power was restored to the DACS shelf and service restored after about 5 hours. http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/Filings/Network_Outage/19…

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The Y2K glitches start being reported
by Sean Donelan 29 Dec '99

29 Dec '99

And it begins, the early reports from England on a particular POS machine. Although this glitch was related to Y2K, POS machines are flaky on the best of days. >There have been some problems with a small percentage (5%) of point of sale >terminals (the card readers in shops that are used to process credit and debit >card transactions). The affected terminals show an error message which simply >needs to be cleared to allow the transaction to be processed. Although there >is a simple workaround, details were not immediately available to all affected >retailers, so consumers were inconvenienced yesterday. Now that the details >have been widely disseminated, consumers are much less likely to be affected. > >The problem is restricted to some of the machines produced by Racal Electronics >plc. Although the fault relates to the Y2K bug, it will disappear on 1.1.2000. > >This is only a minor glitch. It is typical of the sort of problem that it was >expected would need to be dealt with over this period. This problem does not >affect any other point of sale terminals, ATMs, the cards themselves or other >methods of payment, and does not lead us to expect any significant problems in >the financial sector.

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Re: Y2k silly season
by Dean Anderson 28 Dec '99

28 Dec '99

Around 03:58 PM 12/27/1999 -0500, rumor has it that David Lesher said: >And in the words of an official Y2K plan from an unnamed agency: > > Do not tie up the phone lines; send a fax instead. This is just a typo. It should read: send an IP-fax instead.... ;-) --Dean ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Plain Aviation, Inc dean(a)av8.com LAN/WAN/UNIX/NT/TCPIP http://www.av8.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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Re: US Federal Y2K web site is now online
by Sean Donelan 28 Dec '99

28 Dec '99

On Mon, 27 December 1999, Eric Germann wrote: > Maybe they could use the marspolarlander.org infrastructure since NASA > doesn't have a use for it now ... At a post-mortum after one of the big events last year, I suggested the federal agencies might want to join together and create a way they could share their web infrastructures for these big events. Different agencies face this problem on a regular basis. Each time they set up a one of a kind project. Afterwards, the vendors pack up all the fancy boxes and go home. If the agencies had a pre-arranged way to distribute information through all the servers they have, they have a lot of server power spread out across many different backbones and could re-use what they've learned from the previous events. On one hand, its good because each project gets the latest, greatest boxes. Government procurement policies aren't designed for the bleeding edge. Allowing vendors to show off their wares, gets a lot of bang for the government buck. On the other hand, it takes six months to get enough network and server power ready. If an agency needs to set up an event site on short notice, they are S.O.L. Since no one has been completely successfull handling event sites, maybe having different vendors experiment with different solutions is best. According to Koskinen the new www.y2k.gov web site can handle an estimated 40 million hits a day. Yes, I know there already was a site using the www.y2k.gov address. It handled about 1 million hits a month. If you remember your performance and simulation class in college, there are all sorts of queues in queuing theory. You get very different results depending on the predicted arrival rates.

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US Federal Y2K web site is now online
by Sean Donelan 28 Dec '99

28 Dec '99

The US Federal Y2K web site www.y2k.gov is up and online. Of course, the government and the contractors believe they have prepared as well as they can. But as we've seen with event sites throughout the years, traffic always seems to exceed everyone's expectations. I read an interview with one of the spokespeople who indicated the expectation is most of the load will come from the media, and the media web sites will distribute the load. In other words, if you can't get to www.y2k.gov or www.iy2kcc.org; CNN.com, MSNBC.com, bbc.co.uk, etc will have the same information.

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