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To: Ken Salaets who wrote (26)	10/16/1998 1:40:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 44

INTERESTING! - Email answers from a MDB of the German Green party on Y2k questions These are answers to some Y2k awareness questions that I had emailed to Mr. Kiper, who is member of parlament of the German Green party in the current legislative period. _____________ Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 12:04:10 +0200 From: Manuel Kiper <manuel@kiper.bn.eunet.de> Save Address Block Sender Reply-To: manuel@kiper.bn.eunet.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: john_mansfield@hotmail.com Subject: y2k problem ... Dear John Mansfield, thank You for Your mail that was forwarded to us as the internet experts of our party. Last year, we made the y2k-problem a topic of our parliamentary activities since we regard this as a severe and endangering very many aspects of our computer-based society. The reactions in the US may seem a little bit too exaggerated. But when cultural preferences are put aside, the baseline is correct, especially, alarming the public and the IT users in a timely fashion to prepare for forseeable problems. The reactions from the federal government here were quite evasive. They clearly showed a lack of awareness of the magnitude of the problem. We now lack the time to solve the y2k-problem. We only can reduce the damage and try to fix the must serious bugs. The transition of government here results in a further loss of time. Until the new government is able to act, some valuable time will pass. We have, however, developed some plans to cope with the problem. When and how they can be implemented is not yet clear. I hope this satisfies Your questions, with regards Ingo Ruhmann * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Ingo Ruhmann Dr. Manuel Kiper Mdb Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Buendnis 90/Die Gruenen Tel:xx49-228 - 16 81547 Bundeshaus HT 404 Fax: - 16 86515 D-53113 Bonn Mail: manuel@kiper.bn.eunet.de pweb.de * * * * * * * * * * PGP Key on request * * * * * * * * * *

To: Ken Salaets who wrote (26)	10/16/1998 1:42:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 44

Follow up answers from Mr. Kiper of the German Green party on Y2k in Germany Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:40:22 +0200 From: Manuel Kiper <manuel@kiper.bn.eunet.de> Save Address Block Sender Reply-To: manuel@kiper.bn.eunet.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: john mansfield <john_mansfield@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: y2k problem ... 'Dear John Mansfield on behalf of Your questions: > - were you aware of the contingency planning of the UK government; and > especially with all the details as described in the study of 'Ernst and > Young' (made on request of the UK government)? If this is the case; I am > curious why up till now no questions have been asked to the CDU/FDP > government IN PARLAMENT by your party during the current legislation > period. We raised questions in October 1997 (Bt.-Drs 13/8835) and this year (No 8/223, Aug. 24th 98) concerning nuclear facilities. The effect of last year's questions at least were more intense activities by the German Bundesamt fuer Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (comparable to something between NSA and NIST). To be true, these are still dangerously uncomparable to other countries by far. > - do you allow me to post these questions and your answers on my > dedicated Y2k Germany website (at > siliconinvestor.com I only post > emails after asking and getting consent. I have no trouble with that > - are you interested in any further articles and reports that I have > found and find? As I am investigating this issue in depth for more than > 1 year now, I can be of value to you in this respect. Since I am not a member of Parliament in the next period and can only follow the course of action from the outside, it is up to You, if You still feel it useful to keep me on a mailing list of Yours. sincerly Manuel Kiper