[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 132 (Thursday, July 10, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37055-37056]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-18077]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Commission Meeting To Hear Recommendations of the Network 
Reliability and Interoperability Council

July 8, 1997.
    Representatives of the Commission's Network Reliability and 
Interoperability Council will present the Council's report and 
recommendations to the Commission at a meeting which will be held on 
July 15, 1997 beginning at 9:30 a.m. in the Commission meeting room 
(856) at 1919 M Street NW in Washington, D.C. The report deals with the 
implementation of section 256 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
    Section 256 requires the Commission to establish procedures to 
oversee coordinated network planning by telecommunications carriers and 
other providers of telecommunications service and permits the FCC to 
participate in the development of public network interconnectivity 
standards by appropriate industry standards-setting bodies. The 
purposes of section 256 as stated in the statute are (1) to promote 
non-discriminatory accessibility by the broadest number of users and 
vendors of communications products and services to public 
telecommunications networks and (2) to ensure the ability of users and 
information providers to ``seamlessly and transparently transmit and 
receive information between and across telecommunications networks.''
    The report will be presented to the Commission by NRIC Chairman 
Ivan Seidenberg, President and CEO of NYNEX. Other representatives 
making presentations are Casimir Skrypczak, Group President of 
Professional Services at Bellcore; John Gunter, Vice President of 
Network Strategic Planning and Support at BellSouth; William Blatt, 
Vice President, Major Accounts at NORTEL; and Gerald Peterson, 
Technical Standards Director at AT&T Labs and Chairman of Standards 
Committee T1 (sponsored by ATIS).
    A list of the organizations which constitute the NRIC is attached.
    For further information contact Jim Keegan (202) 418-2323, e-mail: 
[email protected]

Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Acting Secretary.

Attachment A

The Network Reliability and Interoperability Council

Member Organizations (by primary identity)

Interexchange Carriers

AT&T
MCI
Sprint

Local Exchange Carriers

Ameritech
Bell Atlantic
BellSouth
GTE Corporation
NYNEX Corporation
Pacific Telesis
Southwestern Bell
US West, Inc.
Frontier Corp.

Research and Standards Organizations

Bell Communications Research
Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions
Cable Labs
Telecommunications Industry Association

Internet Access Providers

America Online

Trade Associations

Association for Local Telecommunications Services
Competitive Telecommunications Association
Organization for the Protection and Advancement of Small Telephone 
Companies
United States Telephone Association
National Cable Television Association
Cable Telecommunications Association
Personal Communications Industry Association
Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association

Institutional Consumer Representatives

Tele-Communications Association
International Communications Association
Boeing Company

Residential Consumer Representatives

Alliance for Public Technology
National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates

Cable Companies

Time Warner Communications

PCS Representatives

NextWave Telecom, Inc.

Manufacturers

Motorola
U.S. Robotics
Lucent Technologies
Nortel

Government Related Organizations

National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners
National Communications System

Labor Representative

Communications Workers of America

Satellite Service Providers

Hughes Telecommunications and Space Company--Hughes Electronics 
Corporation

Computer/IP Industry

Information Technology Industry Council (also representing 
Information Infrastructure Standards Panel)

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Associate Members

National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. 
Dept. of Commerce
Office of Science and Technology Policy, White House

[FR Doc. 97-18077 Filed 7-9-97; 8:45 am]
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