14 April 1999

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Agenda: 14 April 1999

Introductions

Opening comments

Frank Ianna -- President, AT&T Network Services

Michael Powell -- FCC Commissioner

Previous recommendations

Marsha MacBride, FCC

John Pasqua, NRIC Steering Committee

Focus Group status reports

Focus Group 1 -- Pete Spring, AT&T(Y2K - Networks/LECs) Gerry Roth, GTE

Focus Group 2 -- Michael Cooke, Nortel(Y2K - CPE)

Focus Group 3 -- Ray Albers, Bell Atlantic (Network Reliability)

Communications plan update -- John Pasqua, Steering Committee Chair

Closing comments

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Recommendation Actions

Meeting with State Department

Agreement to act on requests, subject to priorities and constraints

Letter from Michael Armstrong to Madeline Albright

NRIC recommendations

Legal barrier relief support

Next steps:

Send high risk / major interest country list to State Department

Develop expanded country priority list for consideration

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Communications Plan Update

NRIC Communications Team established:

• Steve Ford, Ameritech

• Judy Glatz, AT&T

• Bob Kenas, Nortel

• Lynn Newman, Lucent

• Clay Owen, BellSouth

• Art Reilly, Bellcore (team leader)

Communications plan revised to reflect feedback of NRIC members

Focused on leveraging work of Focus Group subcommittees

Progress to date:

Press release drafted and ready for distribution

Links to NRIC web site established from 50+ other sites

Preliminary discussions underway for Industry Forum

Communications Team committed to managing implementation of plan

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Timeline

14 October 1998

Kick-off meeting Reach consensus on approach Launch Focus Groups

Progress reports for Focus Groups 1 and 2• Observations• Assessments• Initial recommendations

Focus Group 3 status report NRSC quarterly report

Refined recommendations for Focus Groups 1 and 2• Test results

Focus Group 3 status report NRSC quarterly report

Focus Group 1 and 2 assessment and testing reports Focus Group 3 initial recommendations NRSC quarterly report

Focus Groups 1 and 2 status and test results of inter-carrier and supplier contingency planning

Focus Group 3 recommendations on subcommittee 2 NRSC quarterly report

Focus Group 3 reports:• Proposal on data gathering and reliability

reporting• Final recommendations on outages caused by

CO power, facilities, procedural errors NRSC quarterly report NRIC IV conclusions

• Observations on millennium activities• Recommendations for future activities

6 January 2000

14 January 1999

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14 July 1999

14 October 1999