-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 All, Gadi Evron, Randy Vaughn and myself have initiated an "outages" mailing list. The primary goal of this mailing list ("outages") is to report major outages similar to what FCC provided prior to 9/11 days but they seem to have pulled back due to terrorism concerns. Some also believe that LEC's and IXC's also like this model as they no longer have to air their dirty laundry. Then again, this mailing list is not about making anyone look bad, its all about information sharing and keeping network operators & end users abreast on the situation as close to real-time information as possible in order to assess and respond to major outage such as routing voice/data via different carriers which may directly or indirectly impact us and our customers. The purpose of this list is to have a central place to lookup and report so that end users & network operators know why their services (e-mail, phones, etc) went down eliminating the need to open tons of trouble tickets during a major event. One master ticket - such as fiber cut affect xxx OC48's would suffice. We hope this would empower users and network operators to post such events so that everyone could benefit from it. In a brief poll, I've gotten some good feedback from nanog community and there are some who are also willing to assist with this cause. You know who you are :-) Currently the mailing list is not vetted nor moderated as we would like everyone to benefit from such reports unless you strongly feel that we should vett, which we are willing to listen and discuss. We like to encourage people to participate and help with the process and yes, we need your support! Not sure how this can be balanced against DHS (department of homeland security) perceived needs. We look forward to your feedback and suggestions. Outages mailing is now accepting members. http://isotf.org/mailman/listinfo/outages regards, Gadi Evron Randy Vaughn Virendra Rode -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFG//6pbZvCIJx1bcRAnGGAJwO/8mk297IcTsEaBSl6k8UQ2RcmACfbjBj KHmJX/zmRQoYTzr+5y6WUvE= =ixbS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----