> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sean Donelan
> Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 6:24 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: International Emergency Preference Scheme
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>
> On Fri, 22 December 2000, "Folts, Harold" wrote:
> > Harald Alvestrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> > > note - this effort is focused at recovering the society from
> > > a serious
> > > disaster, not recovering the network, I think.
> >
> > You are quite right. Recovery operations does primarily mean
> restoration for
> > society. However, recovery of network resources is often necessary to
> > facilitate the ultimate objective.
>
> Its usually doesn't get addressed directly in the priority scheme, but
> elsewhere. If you need to recover the network, none of the government
> priority schemes apply. The carrier has first dibs on their own
> infrastructure. What gets confusing is we don't have monolithic
> vertically integrated carriers. So it is possible to create a recovery
> deadlock.
>
>