Re: Final report: national diversity assurance initiative
It may be ridiculous and incredible, as you suggest, but, in an ironic way it also opens the door to a discussion on nationalizing the 'Net's backbone infrastructure ;-) ---------------- Christian Kuhtz <christian@kuhtz.com> wrote: "Due to the cost structures for these projects, the telecommunications carriers believe that funding for the scoping effort and the implementation of an automated solution would need to come from the Federal government or some other external source prior to project implementation." .. and not afraid to ask for handouts either to fix their own backoffice challenges.. In a word: ridiculous, and flat out incredible. On Mar 21, 2006, at 2:17 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
ATIS has issued its final reports about its circuit national diversiety assurance initiative.
"The NDAI report confirmed our suspicions that diversity assurance is not for the meek," Malphrus added. "It is expensive and requires commitment by the customer to work closely with carriers in performing due diligence. Until the problem is solved, circuit route diversity should not be promoted as a general customer best practice."
Press release: http://www.atis.org/PRESS/pressreleases2006/031506.htm
Report: http://www.atis.org/ndai/
*groan* Oh that's a lovely thought! On Mar 21, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Frank Coluccio wrote:
It may be ridiculous and incredible, as you suggest, but, in an ironic way it also opens the door to a discussion on nationalizing the 'Net's backbone infrastructure ;-)
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Christian Kuhtz <christian@kuhtz.com> wrote:
"Due to the cost structures for these projects, the telecommunications carriers believe that funding for the scoping effort and the implementation of an automated solution would need to come from the Federal government or some other external source prior to project implementation."
.. and not afraid to ask for handouts either to fix their own backoffice challenges..
In a word: ridiculous, and flat out incredible.
On Mar 21, 2006, at 2:17 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
ATIS has issued its final reports about its circuit national diversiety assurance initiative.
"The NDAI report confirmed our suspicions that diversity assurance is not for the meek," Malphrus added. "It is expensive and requires commitment by the customer to work closely with carriers in performing due diligence. Until the problem is solved, circuit route diversity should not be promoted as a general customer best practice."
Press release: http://www.atis.org/PRESS/pressreleases2006/031506.htm
Report: http://www.atis.org/ndai/
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:23:57 CST, Frank Coluccio said:
It may be ridiculous and incredible, as you suggest, but, in an ironic way it also opens the door to a discussion on nationalizing the 'Net's backbone infrastructure ;-)
Well, looking at the recent security scorecards, we can choose between letting DHS call the shots (wait, they got an F for their OWN security), and the NSF, which got an A. Wait, didn't those guys used to run the backbone? ;)
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