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RE: FAA - ASDI servers

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Finnesey)
Tue Jan 4 23:53:29 2011

Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 20:52:32 -0800
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinDogk9LP8j336W1Bh4jkhsyjKQm4a9WfjXSBt5@mail.gmail.com>
From: "Ryan Finnesey" <ryan.finnesey@HarrierInvestments.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

Yes I did read the VPN document before posting to the group but it does =
not give any IP address information and the e-mail address within the =
document is bouncing. =20

-----Original Message-----
From: christopher.morrow@gmail.com [mailto:christopher.morrow@gmail.com] =
On Behalf Of Christopher Morrow
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 11:07 PM
To: Menerick, John
Cc: Ryan Finnesey; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: FAA - ASDI servers

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Menerick, John <jmenerick@netsuite.com> =
wrote:
> Every joke has a bit of truth. =A0For instance, until recently (last =
10 years?), O'hare's traffic controllers relied upon vacuum tube =
technology to perform their job.

yea, I was really referring to the ATC part of the FAA I suppose...
I'm not sure it's still true, but every time I hear it come up in =
conversation (I bet owen delong would actually know...or rs) there is a =
bit of:
 "Well, we could migrate to something NOT VT based, but that'd take 3+ =
years and ... we have other priorities and ... "

wash/rinse/repeat... On a serious note though:

<http://www.fly.faa.gov/ASDI/asdi.html>
(note this is the first hit in google searches for 'adsi server faa') =
seems to have all manner of information on it about the systems in =
question. They seem to mention VPN services, I suspect there isn't v6 =
access, I would have read the requirements doc, but they wanted to send =
it to me as a .doc file... uhm, this is the 21st century could we =
distribute this in some sort of cross-platform manner? like txt ? or =
pdf? (though I hesitate to suggest pdf, what with the adobe pwnage =
consistently ongoing these days)

-chris
(not a pilot, not even on tv)


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