Date: 16 Aug 2000 06:15:11 -0400 Message-ID: <20000816101511.27280.qmail@xuxa.iecc.com> From: owner-telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org (Telecom Digest) To: telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org Subject: Telecom Digest V2000 #24 Reply-To: editor@telecom-digest.org Sender: owner-telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org Errors-To: owner-telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org Precedence: bulk X-UIDL: 7700dbcbfd0bcf5cd61995c29b298510 Status: RO X-Status: Telecom Digest Wednesday, August 16 2000 Volume 2000 : Number 024 In this issue: Re: Lieberman's Privacy 'Tap' Dance Re: Legal AT&T Wireless LD slam Re: V & H Coordinates ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 16 Aug 2000 01:35:45 -0400 From: phr@netcom.com (Paul Rubin) Subject: Re: Lieberman's Privacy 'Tap' Dance In article , Monty Solomon wrote: >Lieberman's Privacy 'Tap' Dance >by Declan McCullagh > >7:53 a.m. Aug. 15, 2000 PDT >LOS ANGELES -- The Democratic Party platform that delegates will >adopt this week embraces personal privacy despite the checkered >voting record of its vice presidential candidate. > >During his 12 years in the Senate, Connecticut's Joseph Lieberman has >supported regulations on medical data collection while at the same >time championing expanded surveillance powers for law enforcement. > >http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38207,00.html Gore and Lieberman scare me from a privacy perspective. For example, http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?contentid=913&knlgAreaID=85&subsecid=108 is a press release from the Progressive Policy Institute (part of Lieberman's Democratic Leadership Council) about their proposal to make the DMCA even worse than it is. Among other things it requires ISP's to get verifiable ID from their users or face liability for copyright-infringing content that the users post, and allows judges to shut down ISP's if they host infringing stuff. Gore, of course, also backed the Clipper chip and has kept cryptography bogged down for many years by keeping the bogus crypto export regulations alive. Of course I have plenty of problems with GW Bush as well... - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 16 Aug 2000 02:18:13 -0400 From: "Michael D. Sullivan" Subject: Re: Legal AT&T Wireless LD slam Actually, wireless carriers were specifically relieved from having to provide a choice of long-distance providers, and were allowed to provide bundled local and long-distance, by the 1996 Telecom Act (Section 601 thereof, if i recall). - -- Michael D. Sullivan avogadro@bellatlantic.net Bethesda, MD, USA - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 16 Aug 2000 04:24:29 -0400 From: HALinNY77@aol.com Subject: Re: V & H Coordinates In a message dated 08/16/00 00:12:35 Eastern Daylight Time, owner-telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org writes: > Date: 15 Aug 2000 12:20:53 -0400 > From: "Bob Edmonds" > > Do you know how I can get V & H Coordinate tables that would be used on a > computer system for least costing routing determinations? > > Bob Edmonds > Telcordia's Traffic and Routing Administration (TRA) offers several products that include V&H data. They are available on paper, CD-ROM, mag tape, and floppies. You can subscribe to regular updates or purchase a single edition for a small premium over a subscription. My personal preference is the Terminal Point Master that costs about $300 per month. Their URL is http://www.trainfo.com/ . I have to say, however, as someone who's spent the last four years developing Least Cost Routing (LCR) systems for several telecom companies, that V&H has never been a factor in LCR. The predominant factor is typically a combination of LATA and OCN or (in less sophisticated systems) NPA. This information is also available in the TRA products mentioned above. Hal Kaplan Orion Telecommunications, Inc. - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ End of Telecom Digest V2000 #24 *******************************