'Responses to Y2K inquiries should be consistent, vague, content-free...
This is one of the mayor problems facing y2k remediators: how to get reliable information (i.e. not 'vague, content-free') on y2k compliance status in products, suppliers, etc. Such recommendations do not help at all.
From:
'State CIOs Meet on Y2K'
John
_______________
'According to one dinner companion, while public enterprises
must be more open to public scrutiny, much of the legal
advice they are getting is similar to that of corporate general
counsel: "Responses to Y2K inquiries should be consistent,
vague, content-free, warm and fuzzy reassurances that are
non-actionable statements in any future legal action
regardless of the true state of the present situation. You
should only say, 'We are aware of the problem, are working on
it, and plan to have completed our remediation by the end of
1998 which will leave all of 1999 for testing.'" Everyone at the
table smiled knowingly.
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