From Roleigh Martin's list server:
'A friend of mine, Snyder, sent this in late August but it
references a good paper to read from TAVA. Snyder also brings up his
concern over just how thorough has been the Y2k assessment of
satellites. He's researched this thoroughly but he is not satisifed
that the assessment has been thorough. Personally, I doubt if we
will find out before 2000 because I think that would be classified
information. It's too sensitive in the realm of national security
information, in my opinion.
TTYL (talk to you later) - Roleigh
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>Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 07:34:12 -0500
Dear Y2k Friends and Acquaintances:
There is a link to an excellent whitepaper discussing the
impact of Y2k on process control, factory automation, and
embedded systems in manufacturing companies, written by TAVA
Technologies Inc. on Ed Yardeni's web-site. As I understand
it, TAVA is the leading company for remediating Y2k plant
floor embedded chip issues. The whitepaper is found at
tavatech.com It is the most
understandable and real life discussion I have found on the
issue. From the little I have read, TAVA has a good
reputation. The paper takes the lid off some of the black
boxes, and discribes the various systems it has found, and the
issues that can arise.
TAVA states:
"Although the plant floor Y2k experience is still in its early
stage across almost all industries, TAVA Technologies can
point to two compelling statistics. To date, with plant floor
Y2k experience at over 400 sites, the company has yet to find
a single site that did not require some degree of remediation;
and, to date, having researched tens of thousands of
manufacturing automation systems and components for Y2k
readiness, the company has found more than 20% to be either
non-compliant or "suspect", that is non-compliant under
certain circumstances"
Presumably we would feel uncomfortable relying upon anyone's
assertion that one of our client's key factories was
"compliant", unless they could produce an assessment (and
supporting documentation) supporting their assertion.
Do we have any evidence that anyone has assessed the
automation systems and embedded systems in our key satellites?
If the grid, banking and telecommunications rely upon these,
should not we assure the satellites can be remediated, before
we complete our "fixes" of the rest? Part of our fixes might
need to be "work-arounds" that do not rely on a key component:
satellites. That would not be a simple, last minute, thing.
Satellites may be a key weak link in everything. Shouldn't we
check?
Thanks for your consideration of these thoughts.
Snyder
Roleigh Martin ourworld.compuserve.com
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