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Subject: IP: White House, Net experts seek to deter millennium bug fears Brock Meeks

From: Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 16:04:58 -0400


Internet is Y2K ready? maybe		
                
White House, Net experts seek to deter millennium bug fears		
                
By Brock N. Meeks
MSNBC		

                
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 ? The Internet?s core structure is expected to remain operational during the transition to the new year, unaffected by the infamous Year 2000 technology problem, a White House official said Tuesday after meeting with a group of Internet experts. That optimistic outlook, however, contains a soft-white underbelly: uncertainty. All assessments of Internet readiness addressing the Y2K problem are merely taken for granted; there are no independent audits to confirm the Internet?s readiness, the official admitted to MSNBC.		

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