As I understand it, in about a week or so, we will begin to see travel advisories from various governments warning citizens about travel to certain countries that might experience Y2k infrastructure problems.

After becoming aware of this, I began to wonder: If the U.S. is closely monitoring foreign countries, surely they must be monitoring the U.S. in return?

Anyone have links? (Preferably in English!)

Might be nice to bookmark a few. . .

:)

-- FM (vidprof@aol.com), September 10, 1999

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FM, I can just picture some other country coming out with a NEGATIVE assessment of the FAA and it's remediation status. Watch the fur fly.

Ray

-- Ray (ray@totacc.com), September 10, 1999.

As I understand it, there was a bit of fur flying over the recent State Department testimony on the status of other countries.

I think it went a little like this:

"You're not going to be ready."

"Will too!"

"Nope. 'Don't think so."

"Well, you're looking at old data."

Silence.

At any rate, I'd still like to know if someone is monitoring the U.S. Might be worth delving into some of the multi-national's Web sites. . .

:)

-- FM (vidprof@aol.com), September 10, 1999.

Humm. Good question FM.

Old Git would likely know if the U.K. is, and Brian would have a good fix on Canada.

One would think the United Nations site might, but I haven't stumbled across such a thing yet. (Time for a revisit).

Anyone know much about Australia? I would think they might.

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), September 10, 1999.

And let us not forget NZ.

:)

-- FM (vidprof@aol.com), September 10, 1999.

FM,

I've read that some of these assessments won't be released until around September 14th:

http://infoseek.go.com/Content?arn=a2779reuff- 19990901&qt=readies&sv=IS&lk=noframes&col=NX&kt=A&ak=news1486

[snip]

The U.S. Y2K assessments are based primarily on reporting by U.S. diplomats with input from a wide range of sources, supplemented by work in Washington, State Department officials said. They said Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Britain will publish parallel advisories for their citizens on or about Sept. 14.

[snip]

-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), September 10, 1999.

Interesting.

Also on that day:

"State of the Union: A Final Report on the US Gov't and Y2K

The next meeting of the WDCY2K Group will be held on Tuesday, September 14, 1999. It will deal with one of the most pressing and controversial issues remaining: how well will the US government and its programs function as we pass through Y2K. We are once again honored to have two very special speakers:

John Koskinen, Chairman, The President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion

Joel Willemssen, Director, Civil Agencies Information Systems, US General Accounting Office

Each will present his best information and opinion on the state of the US government's Y2K efforts and what impact Y2K will have (if any) upon Federal government services and programs. Be sure to respond promptly when the call for RSVPs goes out; this one will fill up fast. "

(This from the wdcy2k site)

:)

FYI: I know it's not related to this thread, but did anyone monitor the National Guard drill? I seem to recall there was to have been another one this past week.

-- FM (vidprof@aol.com), September 10, 1999.

FM,

As Linkmeister links, here are also a few more details on the State Departments Sept. 14th release date...

Fact Sheet: Department of State Preparations for Y2K (USIA Washington File)

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id= 001Nu2

Notice the little snippet...

On September 21-22 in Berlin, the G-8 will address contingency planning in the critical sectors of federal/state government preparedness, energy, telecommunications, transportation and health care. We also expect in this meeting to examine more deeply the issue of technical response from a multinational perspective. ...

Now, clearly, someone there is watching the U.S., and the U.S. will need to update our Y2K position in the global scheme of things.

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), September 10, 1999.

FM,

Received an e-mail from someone registered to attend the WDCY2K Group, and was notified that John Koskinen won't be attending, but will be sending his assistant Janet Abrams.

(BTW, you have to register to attend because the security guards have lists and will not allow anyone to enter who is not on the list).

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), September 11, 1999.