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FCC's Network Reliability and Interoperability Council

  • 56. Second, commenters should discuss what role, if any, the Commission or its designees should have in ensuring the network reliability and interoperability of wireline  broadband Internet access services.  For telecommunications service providers, the Commission has found that network reliability is of paramount importance in any number of settings  and, in particular, has directed the Network Reliability and Interoperability Council (NRIC) to explore and recommend measures that would enhance network reliability and interconnectivity.   Commenters should address the costs and benefits of authorizing NRIC to make technical interconnectivity and interoperability recommendations with respect to wireline broadband Internet access service.
  • Network Reliability and Interoperability Council to Hold Meeting on December 5, 2003, FCC 11/25/2003
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    NRIC VI

    NRIC V

  • NRIC Report to the Nation Jan 2002

    • NRIC One Year Trial Monitoring Internet Reliability
    NRIC V held its meeting at the FCC on August 23, 2000. 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 only known letter to the Internet community was to IOPS.  (NANOG, which does a significant amount of reliability work, did not apparently receive such a letter.  PJ Aduskevicz of AT&T and NRIC did make a presentation on the one year trial at the Fall meeting of NANOG. Powerpoint slides | Real Audio).  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. (As of Dec 2000 no information had been posted) 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 Trial is being administered by the National Coordinating Center of the National Communications System.  The FCC Designated Federal Officer is Kent Nilsson.

    Jan 2002:  NRIC V recommended that the voluntary outage trial not be continued.

    		 Network Reliability and NRIC Links

    A real audio recording of the NRIC meeting is available on the FCC website.

    WIP Federal Advisory Council Act Webpage

    Aug 23 FCC NRIC Meeting (among other things, NRIC is engaged in a one year voluntary trial of monitoring ISP reliability).

    National Coordinationg Center on Telecommunications (which mentions but does not elaborate on trial)

    July 14, 1999 NRIC IV Meeting NRIC recommends one year voluntary trial of outage reporting by ISPs (and others) to the FCC.  Powerpoint presentation
     
    • Statement of NRIC V FG4 on Internet Peering. June 2001 Letter from FG4 to Jim Crowe, Chair of NRIC June 21, 2001
    • Jun 26 Network Reliability and Interoperability Council 10 am - noon. Real Audio Avail.
    • Released: 06/20/2001. NETWORK RELIABILITY AND INTEROPERABILITY COUNCIL TO HOLD MEETING. (DA No. 01-1471). OET. Contact: Kent Nilsson at (202) 418-0845, TTY: (202) 418-2989, Real Audio and streaming video access to the meeting will be available at http//www.fcc.gov DA-01-1471A1.pdf DA-01-1471A1.doc DA-01-1471A1.txt, FCC 6/21/01
    • Released: July 31, 2000. NETWORK RELIABILITY AND INTEROPERABILITY COUNCIL TO HOLD MEETING.Contact Kent Nilsson 202-418-0845. (DA No. 00-1700). Internet URL:  fcc
    • Mar 20. FCC's NRIC V to meet - discussion includes Y2K and reliability of packet networks
    • Released: February 25, 2000. FCC RENEWS AND AMENDS CHARTER OF NETWORK RELIABIITY AND INTEROPERABILITY COUNCIL.Contact: Kent Nilsson 202-418-0845. (DA No. 00-338).
    • NRIC Website www.nric.org
    • From the NRIC meeting Oct 14, 1999:
        • NRIC VI Focus Group I
        Subcommitee 2
        L Scerbo Telecordia

        Y2K Interoprability Testing
        Finding #1 and Recommendation

        ISP Interoperability with Internet Backbones Networks - Gather and Analyze
        Information on Interoperability Testing Plans

        7/14/99 This "gap" was identified by the NRIC Testing subcommittee and
        reported to the President's Council on Y2K at the NSTAC meeting in June.
        The President's Council will pursue ISP interoperability with NSF and other
        agencies.  Subcommittee 2 requested to monitor results.

        10/14/99  Status:  Interoperability testing now planned between a large ISP
        and a major Internet backbone provider

        Focus Group III
        PJ Auduskevicz
        ATT
         

        • n A voluntary trial is recommended with participation by service providers of CMRS (Commercial Mobile Radio Service), satellite, cable, data networking and ISPs to alert NCS/NCC of "widespread outages" that have significant public impact.
        • n A process for reporting data during the voluntary trial including what report fields need to be populated and time frames for filing reports has been addressed and will be included in the Final Report.
        • n Industry associations should provide an informational notice to their members to inform them of the voluntary outage reporting trial and encourage their participation.
        • n Analysis of the data from the voluntary trial should be done by a neutral party similar to the analysis conducted on wireline carrier segments.
        • u At the completion of the voluntary trial period (minimum 1 year) an evaluation of the effectiveness of the data for usefulness to participants and the FCC should be undertaken.
        Data to be held confidential (potential FOIA exemption may be needed in
        order to facilitate participation in the voluntary trial).
         

        ISPs  Alert Situation Criteria:  A failure that would cause a loss of
        service to a large number of customers for 30 minutes or more.  Outage
        examples:  A DNS failure
         

        Focus Group III will place its proposal online for comments.  The comment
        period proposed is as follows:

        Reports posted on FCC web site                        Nov. 23
        Comment period for NRIC members               Nov. 23 - Dec. 7
        Comment period closed                         Dec. 7
        Reports revised as appropriate                        Dec. 15
        Final reports available on FCC web site         Dec. 16

    • July 14, 1999 NRIC IV Meeting
    • In 1996, in response to the Telecom Act of 1996, the FCC changed the "Network Reliability Council" into the "Network Reliability and Interoperability Council.  61 FedReg 26516 (May 29, 1996).
    • The Network Reliability Council was established in 1991.  56 FedReg 65900 (Dec 19, 1991) ("The Federal Communications Commission has established an Advisory Committee, called the Network Reliability Council, to provide recommendations to the Commission that will help prevent network outages or limit their impact.")  The first meeting was held on February 27, 1992.  57 Fed Reg 4757 (Feb 7, 1992).

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