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• Evaluate and report on how well the Best Practices are being implemented by carriers

• Update existing Best Practices as appropriate

• Raise awareness in Packet Networks of existing Best Practices

• Determine which existing Best Practices are applicable to Packet Networks

• Monitor Voluntary Outage Reporting to determine Best Practices implications

• Continue to monitor FCC reportable outages for Best Practices implications

• Implement voluntary one year trial of outages of ISP, CMRS, Satellite, Cable and Data Networking Service Providers, that are likely to have significant public impact

• Evaluate outage reporting requirements and guidelines currently used by wireline carriers to improve the quality of outage reporting

• Evaluate and report on the reliability and availability of the PSTN utilizing NRSC quarterly reports

• Define exactly how packet networks fail by identifying all known major ways of failing

• Extrapolate from how packet networks fail what a packet network outage is

• Determine what would make sense to report as a packet network outage

Focus Group 2A2 on Best

Practices Packet Switching

Chair: Karl Rauscher, Lucent

Focus Group 2B1 on Data

Reporting and Analysis

Chair: P.J. Aduskevicz, AT&T

Focus Group 2B2 on Data Reporting

and Analysis for Packet Switching

Chair: Michael Caloyannides, Miretek Systems

Focus Group 2A1 on Best

Practices

Chair: Rick Harrison, Telcordia

NRIC V Focus Group 2:

Network Reliability

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