NRIC V held its meeting at the FCC today. NRIC announced that the one year voluntary trial period of monitoring non traditional network reliability, including ISP reliability, will be initiated in September. Letters have been sent out to industry associations announcing the voluntary trail and inviting participation. The letter includes a template for filling out outage information. Data collected from the voluntary trial will be posted at the NRIC website www.nric.org. There will be a mid-year report and a report at the end concerning whether NRIC recommends going forward with this type of outage reporting. The FCC Designated Federal Officer is Kent Nilsson. A real audio recording of the NRIC meeting is available on the FCC website. -B www.cybertelecom.org ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup