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To: Jeff Mizer who wrote ()	8/18/1999 5:57:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (4) of 662

THE INTERNET MAY BE THE BIGGEST QUESTION MARK OF THEM ALL Paris - August 17, 1999 - International Herald Tribune ... One thing is clear: Many of the basic elements of the Internet - components that go by names such as routers and switches - have been identified as 'noncompliant ' and thus could malfunction if they are not fixed or replaced before the new year arrives ... Cisco Systems Inc., the world's leading Internet component supplier, lists 25 products on its Web site cisco.com that are not compliant and a further 31 that the company does not plan on testing because it regards them as too old to be serviced. Some of these products were sold as recently as three years ago. Many are still in use ... A recent survey by the Network Reliability and Interoperability Council, a group made up of top executives from U.S. telephone companies, found that 62 percent of countries with large volumes of telephone traffic were perceived as 'high risk' in terms of Y2K problems. Only 18 percent were considered low risk ... 'What will the impact be? I have no idea in the world,' said Dave Farber, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and one of the world's leading experts on the Internet. 'There are going to be some really strange events. There will be some places that will be cut off. They may disconnect certain countries until those countries get their act together. How long that will last I don't know. I don't think anyone does.' Internet users may get a foretaste of Y2K confusion on Aug. 24, when, for reasons not directly related to the millennium bug, the clocks in some satellites that carry Internet traffic will reset themselves to zero.That could affect the way computers linked to the Internet register such things as financial transactions ... [Not sure why reporter used Aug 24 date. GPS rollover is Aug 21.] iht.com Very serious article. Many things I had never considered before. Cheryl 135 Days until 2000 MORE Y2K INTERNET INFO: msnbc.com Check out Y2K Motorola non-compliant "real time-clocks", and stuff they're not gonna fix: mot-sps.com

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