[44533] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: @Home ordered to shutdown at Midnight
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Fri Nov 30 17:17:32 2001
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 17:14:48 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: James Smith <jsmith@PRESIDIO.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, James Smith wrote:
> Interesting to note that even though the govt is all for getting everyone on
> the "Information Superhigway", no mention is made of any government
> sponsored plan to prevent the service from going dark.
The FCC Chairman Michael Powell did write to the Judge overseeing
the bankruptcy proceedings.
> If this were a provider of POTS, and it was dialtone being turned off, would
> there would be some scrambling by the govt to prevent it?
The Judge said only if "public health or safety" would be affected.
A hospital or similar type of customer could come forward, and request
the judge re-consider because a shutdown would affect some critical
public health of safety function. But I think that is unlikely in
this case.
