Tom - The only flaw here is that the Part 63 only says the carrier has to report outages and come up with a plan to reduce outages from the same source. There's little or nothing to *require* a reliable network.
Aside from which, the existence of Part 63 infers that outages are expected and does not use the words "reliable," "guarantee" or "reliability." >From a document on the TIA web site (Project 25), "The purpose is to assist with analysis of issues that can affect reliability and to determine best practices to recover from natural or man-made outages, including those that might be caused by a computer hacker or terrorist. http://www.tiaonline.org/standards/project_25/CIP_HS.pdf Project 25's front page web site states, "Recognizing the need for common standards for First Responders and Homeland Security/Emergency Response professionals, representatives >from the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials International (APCO), the National Association of State Telecommunications Directors (NASTD), selected Federal Agencies and the National Communications System (NCS) established Project 25 (P25), a steering committee for selecting voluntary common system standards for digital public safety radio communications." The TIA document also references the NRIC (Network Reliability and Interoperability Council). Their latest charter looks primarily at emergency services and homeland security. Much reference is made to "best practices." It's interesting to note that the NRIC has statements on certain of their web pages stating, "Implementation of NRIC Best Practices is voluntary." It's also interesting to note that the web server appears to reside on a bell-labs.com domain. http://www.nric.org/ So this whole reliability thingy is primarily aimed at making certain communications systems are up for emergency service providers, especially government entities, with at least some nodding to e911. Nearly everywhere is that word, "voluntary." According to ANSI T1, the NRIC is the successor to the NRC. http://www.t1.org/html/nric.htm Regards, Peter L. Tarver, PE [email protected] > -----Original Message----- > From: William Thomas (Tom) Sykes > Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 9:04 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Should telephones still work during > power loss? > > > All: > > It is in 47 CFR, but not Part 68, but Part 63. > > It has partial roots in the FCC's Office of > Engineering and Technology (OET) Rules and > Regulations regarding Service Outages and > Reporting. If a service outage of a certain > number of customers, or of a certain type, > exceeds a certain duration, it must be reported > to the FCC, along with Root Cause Analysis, etc. > > See Title 47 CFR 63, Section 100 [47CFR63.100] > http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/get-cfr.cg > i?TITLE=47&PART=63&SECTION=100&YEAR=2001&TYPE=TEXT > > If this link came thru too broken, one can link > to it from the FCC OET's Rules and Regulations page > http://www.fcc.gov/oet/info/rules/ > and click on "Outage Reporting Rules Section 63.100" > > > William T. Sykes > Lucent Technologies EH&S > Product Safety/Conformance Manager > Room 7B-516A > 600-700 Mountain Avenue > Murray Hill, NJ 07974-0636 > (908)582-6937 > This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Scott Douglas [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
