[93012] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Collocation Access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Coluccio)
Tue Oct 24 09:37:37 2006
From: Frank Coluccio <frank@dticonsulting.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: frank@dticonsulting.com
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:30:27 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Most list members here will probably find difficulty fathoming this, but du=
ring
the Cold War years of the Nineteen Sixties, many telco employees, depending=
on
the type of work they were engaged in, were actually issued government "Civ=
il
Defense" ID's for the purpose of gaining access to their workplaces and for
transit to contingency assignments during natural disasters and acts of war=
. Long
Lines staff and local operating company switching and transmission staff we=
re
given high priority in those days. I'm not sure exactly when, but I think t=
he
practice was suspended around 1968-9, or so.=20
Do you suppose that telecoms and Internet is critical enough to the nation's
infrastructure today that it should carry this level of regard by governmen=
t?
Say, qualified personnel working in critical sectors be issued "Homeland
Security" ID's? Would such ID's issued by Homeland Security satisfy the cle=
arance
requirements for gaining access to collocation centers?
On Tue Oct 24 8:51 , "David Schwartz" sent:
>
>
>> In recent memory, I can think of two large collocation
>> centers that retain your ID. One is in Miami and one in New York (I don=
't
>> think I need to name names, most of you know to which I refer).
>> All others
>> (including AT&T) have never asked to retain my ID.
>
>Then you broke the law, assuming you had a Florida license and you present=
ed
>it to the Miami facility.
>
>Florida law, Title 13 section 322.32(2), "Unlawful use of license" says
>"[i]t is a misdemeanor of the second degree ... for any person ... [t]o le=
nd
>his or her driver's license to any other person or knowingly permit the use
>thereof by another."
>
>DS
>
>
