TELECOM Digest     Mon, 2 May 94 13:33:00 CDT    Volume 14 : Issue 192

Inside This Issue:                          Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Clipper Petition Delivered to White House (CPSR National Office)
    New Electronic Privacy Group Formed (Dave Banisar)
    Intellectual Property and Telecom Conference (Barry Greene)
    Protocol For Alpha-Numeric Pagers (Gary Morris)
    AT&T Public Phone 2000 Probably Dead (John C. Fowler)
    Bell Atlantic Gets Maryland Competition (Gregory P. Monti)
    Information Wanted on GSM (Tullamore Andre Pettigrew)
    What's a Ballpark Cost For a T1 Line? (Bruce O'Neel)
    What is Infopath? (Gayton Osgood)
    Frame Relay Questions (Glen Bojsza)
    Hayes Optima 288 Problems With PMaster IIe (soniq@terrorcorp.phantom.com)
    Information Wanted: Telecommunications in IVHS (Kilian Scholz)
    Motorola "Advisor" pager Information (Pat Barron)
    Telecommunications Management Standard (3010) Wanted
(Bedryfsingenierswese)
    MCI as a Long Distance Carrier For Data and Voice (Javier Henderson)
    Wanted: Information on Computer Telephone Interface (Xiaoyi Eve Zhang)
    Bulk Call Display (Tony Harminc)
    Info SuperHighway Seminar (Roy Kerwood)

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Date: Mon, 02 May 1994 07:12:07 +0000
From: CPSR National Office <cpsr@cpsr.org>
Subject: Clipper Petition Delivered to White House


                          CPSR PRESS RELEASE
             Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
                             P.O. Box 717
                         Palo Alto, CA 94301
                           415-322-3778 (voice)
                           415-322-4748 (fax)
                             cpsr@cpsr.org

              "CLIPPER" PETITION DELIVERED TO WHITE HOUSE
         COMPUTER USERS CALL ON ADMINISTRATION TO DROP ENCODING PLAN
                     NEW PRIVACY CENTER ESTABLISHED

 Washington, DC -- A national public interest organization
today delivered to the White House a petition asking for withdrawal of
the controversial Clipper cryptography proposal.  The Clipper plan
would provide government agents with copies of the keys used to
encoded electronic messages.

 The petition was signed by more than 47,000 users of the
nation's data highway.  The petition drive occurred entirely across
the Internet.  It is the largest electronic petition to date.

 Earlier this year, the White House announced support for the
Clipper proposal.  But the plan has received almost unanimous
criticism from the public.  A Time/CNN found that 80% of the American
public opposed Clipper.

 Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility began the
petition drive in January.  In the letter addressed to the President,
the organization said that if Clipper goes forward, "privacy
protection will be diminished, innovation will be slowed, government
accountability will be lessened, and the openness necessary to ensure
the successful development of the nation's communications
infrastructure will be threatened."

 The petition asks for the withdrawal of Clipper.  It is signed
by many of the nation's leading cryptographers including Whitfield
Diffie, Martin Hellman, and Ronald Rivest.  Users from nearly 3,000
different sites across the Internet are represented.  Responses came
from more than 1300 companies including Microsoft, IBM, Apple, DEC,
GE, Cray, Tandem, Sun, SGI, Mead Data Central, AT&T, and Stratus.
Signatures also came from more than 850 colleges and universities and
150 non-profit organizations. Many responses came from public networks
such as America Online and Compuserve. Nearly a thousand came from
government and military sites including NASA, the Army and the Navy.

 Next week hearings will be held in Congress on the
controversial cryptography proposal, an initiative developed by the
FBI and the National Security Agency.  Most of the witnesses are
expected to testify against the plan.

 In a related development, the establishment of the Electronic
Privacy Information Center was announced today.  EPIC is jointly
sponsored by CPSR and the Fund for Constitutional Government. It will
focus on emerging privacy issues surrounding the information data
highway.  [see accompanying release].

 CPSR is national membership organization, based in Palo Alto,
California.  For more information about CPSR, contact CPSR, P.O. Box
717, Palo Alto, CA 94302.  415 322 3778 (tel) 415 322 4748 (fax)
cpsr@cpsr.org (email).

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Date: Mon, 02 May 1994 10:02:33 +0000
From: Dave Banisar <epic@cpsr.org>
Subject: New Electronic Privacy Group Formed


                        EPIC Press Release

              Electronic Privacy Information Center
               666 Pennsylvania Ave., SE, Suite 301 
                       Washington, DC  20003 
                       (202) 544-9240 (tel)  
                       (202) 547-5482 (fax) 
                       epic@cpsr.org (email)
         

                  NEW PRIVACY CENTER ESTABLISHED 
                   EPIC TO MONITOR DATA HIGHWAY

WASHINGTON, DC -- A new organization was launched today to address
growing public concerns about privacy protection for the national
information infrastructure.  The Electronic Privacy Information Center
(EPIC) will focus on emerging threats to personal privacy.

 Among the threats are the government's controversial Clipper
computer encryption proposal, which has caused widespread protests
from companies and computer users around the world.  Proposals for an
information superhighway and recent plans to reform the nation's
health care system also involve significant threats to personal
privacy.

 "We have established EPIC to focus public attention on these
new privacy issues -- the Clipper Chip, the Digital Telephony
Proposal, medical record privacy, and the sale of consumer data." said
Marc Rotenberg, director of EPIC.

 A 1993 poll by the Lou Harris organization found 80 percent of
Americans concerned about threats to their privacy.  More than two
thirds believe they have lost all control over personal information.
Still, 70 percent believe that privacy is a fundamental right
comparable to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," and a
clear majority of Americans favor establishment of a privacy agency
within the government.
 
 EPIC brings together an unprecedented group of experts from
computer science, information law, civil liberties, human rights,
public interest advocacy, library and research communities, as well as
privacy experts and scholars. Among the members of the EPIC Advisory
Board is former Congressman and Presidential candidate John B.
Anderson.  Mr. Anderson said today at a Capitol Hill press conference
he was very pleased by the establishment of the new organization.

 "Privacy is one of the bedrock American values.  EPIC will
help ensure that privacy is protected in the information age," said
Mr. Anderson.

 Simon Davies, the Director General of Privacy International,
welcomed the launch of EPIC. Speaking from London, England today he
said, "EPIC is an exciting initiative on the leading edge of privacy
protection. My hope is that EPIC will be the forerunner of many such
organizations around the world."

 EPIC is a joint project of the Fund for Constitutional
Government and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.  FCG
is a non-profit charitable organization established in 1974 to protect
civil liberties and constitutional rights.  CPSR is a national
membership organization established in 1982 by professionals in the
computing field concerned about the social impact of computer
technology.

 For more information contact EPIC, 666 Pennsylvania Ave., SE
Suite 301, Washington, DC 20003.  202 544 9240 (tel), 202 547 5482
(fax) epic@cpsr.org (email). Current materials include a program
description and list of Frequently Asked Questions about EPIC.


Marc Rotenberg, EPIC Director
David L. Sobel, Legal Counsel
Dave Banisar, Policy Analyst

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From: Barry and Laina Raveendran Greene <p00128@psilink.com>
Subject: Intellectual Property and Telecom Conference
Date: Mon, 02 May 94 10:45:22 -0500
Organization: Baha'i Computer and Communications Association


The Global Telecommunications Society & The Foreign Lawyers Forum, Inc
Invite You To A Panel Discussion On:

 "International Law & Telecom:
 Issues of Intellectual Property Rights"

Wednesday, May 11'94, at 6.30 pm, at The International Law Institute,
1615 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Washington D.C. (Near Dupont Circle
Metro)

 Moderator: Emery Simon
            Executive Director, Alliance to Promote Software Innovation

 Panelists: Peter Farkas
                   Partner, Graham & James, and Chair of Intellectual 
                   Property Committee, American Bar Association
            
                   Edward Kazenske
                   Executive Assistant to the Commissioner and Director 
                   of Interdisciplinary Programs, Patent and Trademark Office

                   Ronald Palenski
                   Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Information 
                   Technology Association of America

Members of the Global telecommunications Society or the Foreign Lawyers 
Forum, Inc get in for free. Non-members pay $10 at the door. A wine and 
cheese reception will follow the discussion.

Please RSVP by 5.00 p.m. Tuesday, May 10th, 1994. Call 202-833-3322
and leave a message on the voice mail. If interested in becoming a member 
of either group, please leave a message at the same number.

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Date: Mon, 2 May 94 09:55:34 PDT
From: garym@alsys.com (Gary Morris @ignite)
Subject: Protocol for Alpha-numeric Pagers


I would like to write some software for a specialized computer system
to send pages to alpha-numeric pagers.  Is there a standard protocol
that these services use to accept messages via a modem?

I haven't selected a pager provider yet, so if some use proprietary
protocols I would be interested in know which ones to avoid.  I've
talked to several providers and they have said we can do paging from a
PC and they have a software package for PC's, but I have a special
need that requires custom software (and it's running on Sun/Unix).

I checked the Telecom archives but didn't find much about paging there.


Gary Morris                 Internet: garym@alsys.com  (garym@cts.com)
SDSD/EPD/RACES              Packet:   KK6YB @ N0ARY.#NOCAL.CA.USA.NA
San Diego, CA, USA          Phone:    +1 619-457-2700 x128 (voice/fax)


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: In the Telecom Archives you might want to
check out 'ixo*' files for some information.   PAT]

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Date: Mon, 2 May 94 09:47:25 -0600
From: John C. Fowler <fowlerc@magellan.Colorado.EDU>
Subject: AT&T Public Phone 2000 Probably Dead


(Newcomers: The Public Phone 2000 was a venture attempted by AT&T a
few years ago.  Essentially, computer terminals were placed at many
international airports in the U.S.  With a calling card, you could
place calls anywhere there was a modem, without having to worry about
bringing your own laptop and somehow connecting it to a pay phone.
Unfortunately, it turned out the phone terminals were not tariffed,
so AT&T had to disable the terminal feature pending approval.)

I had the chance to spend a couple of hours at the St. Louis International 
Airport this weekend, and I saw a couple of AT&T Public Phone 2000
booths, so I decided to check them out.  Alas, what I found were plain
old pay phones.  I suppose this means that AT&T has decided to give up.


John C. Fowler, fowlerc@boulder.colorado.edu


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: That's a shame, because the 2000's were
a very useful service. Too bad it did not work out.   PAT]

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Date: Mon, 02 May 1994 11:05:52 EDT
From: Gregory P. Monti <gmonti@cap.gwu.edu>
Subject: Bell Atlantic Gets Maryland Competition


According to the 4/29 {Communications Daily}, Metropolitan Fiber
Systems (MFS) has just won the right in Maryland to compete on a
substantially equal footing with Bell Atlantic-Maryland.  MFS will
become a "co-carrier", which means it will have blocks of telephone
numbers (possibly whole prefixes) assigned to it and will originate
and terminate calls to and from toll carriers and to and from Bell
Atlantic-MD.

Presumably, the access charge that a toll carrier normally pays per
minute to the local phone company that terminates each call will now
be paid to MFS if the call is completed to one of MFS's numbers.

MFS will serve mainly business and government, no residential competition
was announced yet.

MFS won similar rights in NY state about two weeks ago.  The Maryland
decision by the PSC takes NY a step further.  In NY, customers will be
required to change their phone numbers to jump to MFS service.  In
Maryland, customers may keep their old phone number.  PSC ordered BA
to make numbers portable among local carriers.  PSC also ordered BA to
interconnect with MFS using "collocation" or "virtual collocation."


Greg Monti          Arlington, Virginia, USA        gmonti@cap.gwu.edu

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From: tap@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Tullamore Andre PETTIGREW)
Subject: Information Wanted on GSM
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 02 May 1994 14:01:48 GMT


I am looking for information on the GSM digital phone system used in
Australia for an essay I am writing. Of particular interest are
comments/articles etc about privacy, security and the standard in
general.


Thanks for your help,

Tully Pettigrew

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Date: Mon, 2 May 94 13:38 EDT
From: oneel@athena.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bruce O'Neel)
Subject: What's a Ballpark Cost For a T1 Line?


Hi,

I was wondering what the ballpark cost for a T1 line is?  I figure it
will depend greatly on a number of factors, so I'm thinking about
Maryland around Washingtion DC, with maybe 20 miles for a length.
These figures are to give us a direction on a project.

Thanks for any information!!


bruce

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From: gayton@world.std.com (Gayton Osgood)
Subject: What is Infopath?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 02 May 1994 08:08:54 GMT


My local library has put their card catalog on line but in order to
access it they say you must have a NYNEX Infopath account and to
contact the phone company to open one. I don't know wnhat an Infopath
account is or how much it costs. I am reluctant to pay NYNEX ant more
than I already do. If anyone has one of these accounts could you tell
me a little about it.


Gayton Osgood   gayton@world.std.com

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From: Glen_Bojsza@mindlink.bc.ca (Glen Bojsza)
Subject: Frame Relay Questions
Date: 02 May 94 19:44:09 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada


Frame relay is already a "HOT" topic ... so where can someone find
some good design reference material. Notably there are standards but
many vendors routers don't work with them ... ie. for congestion
control if a BECN is sent out most boxes ignore this and lead to
timeouts and retrans.

Another area I would like some information on is what kind of
parameters are being set when using Frame relay ... if a router does
support BECN and its CIR is set to zero does that not mean it will
drop to that rate on the first BECN it receives?

I would appreciate hearing from anybody that has worked with and or
has some refernce material I could read. I realize traffic analysis is
required but there must be some guidelines based on protocol used and
application.


Please contact me at:   GLEN_BOJSZA@MINDLINK.BC.CA

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From: soniq@terrorcorp.phantom.com
Subject: Hayes Optima 288 Problems With Liv. PMaster IIe
Date: Mon, 02 May 94 03:45:58 PDT
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research


 Has anyone got any experience with Hayes Optima 288 and
Livingston Portmaster IIe terminal servers? I am at the end of my rope
trying to configure these beasts.  The problem?  After a fresh init or
a power reset, the modems work fine, but after dropping a session --
although AA remains lit the modem WILL NOT answer any calls.  This is
true for all 30 Hayes modems installed on this server.

 I've got a sneaking suspicion it's got something to do with
the combination of &D3 and &Q5 that the Hayes tech told me I must use.

TIA

soniq

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From: kscholz@mednet.med.miami.edu (Kilian Scholz)
Subject: Information Wanted: Telecommunications in IVHS
Date: 02 May 1994 20:43:24 GMT
Organization: University of Miami


Can someone point me to any info published on telecommunications
related to intelligent vehicle highway systems on the net.

Please mail info to: shooby@ece.miami.edu

Thanks.

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From: Pat_Barron@transarc.com
Subject: Motorola "Advisor" Pager Information Wanted
Date: Mon, 02 May 1994 17:34:34 -0400
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


Does anyone have technical info on the Motorola "Advisor" alphanumeric
pager?  Specifically, any sort of configuration or status report
modes, and/or what one can do with the serial port that seems to be on
the bottom of the unit.

Any info would be most welcome.


Thanks,

Pat

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From: pan@itu2.sun.ac.za (Abrie Nel Bedryfsingenierswese)
Subject: Telecommunications Management Standard (3010) Wanted
Date: 02 May 1994 14:41:24 GMT
Organization: University of Stellenbosch


I am currently doing a project in a South African cellular telephone
company.  My brief is that I should create management procedures
utilizing the Telecommunications Network Management Standard (TMN
3010).

If anyone:
1) Knows where to find telecommunications standards,
2) Knows where to find this specific standard,
I would be most grateful if they could help me!


Abrie Nel
Coopers & Lybrand
Management Advisory Services
South Africa  Cape Town
e-mail: pan@itu1.sun.ac.za

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From: henderson@mln.com
Subject: MCI as a long distance carrier for data and voice?
Date: 02 May 94 10:38:18 PST
Organization: Medical Laboratory Network; Ventura, CA


Hello,

We're currently using Cable & Wireless for long distance for data, and
AT&T for voice.

We've been approached by just about every long distance vendor and a
number of telemarketers trying to get us to switch over. Even though
we're getting good rates from AT&T, the contract we have with them was
negotiated long time ago when we were owned by another company. That's
no longer the case, and we fear that the new contract with AT&T will
have the rates hiked (the total volume is not near what it used to
be).

So far MCI seems to have the better deal, and they would handle both
data and voice.

I'd like to get in touch with current (or past) MCI customers to hear
their good and bad stories about service.

Thanks ever so much.


Javier Henderson    henderson@mln.com

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From: Xiaoyi Eve Zhang <xz22+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Wanted: info on Computer Telephone Interface
Date: Mon, 02 May 1994 21:39:20 -0400
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


Hi there;

I am new, and seeking help here. It's not exactly CPI, hopefully I can
make you understand my question.

Basically two sides. 1) When I want to place a phone call I want to
dial the number from my computer, then let my phone set pick the
response up, then my computer will be freed; 

2) When a phone comes in, I want my computer be able to recognize the
number (assume we have ANI service), and my phone set pick it up.

If anybody there knows how to do it or where to go for the information, 
your help will be GREATLY appreciated.

Reply back to xzhang@henry.ece.cmu.edu, or xz22@andrew.cmu.edu, or if
you live in Pittsburgh area, you are more than welcome to call me at
(412) 422-3822.

Thank you all for your help.


Eve


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: More and more people are asking how to use
Caller-ID or ANI (in the case of 800 service) to accomplish certain tasks
on their computer in the process of handling incoming phone calls. What
you need is a modem with Caller-ID functions built in; there will surely
be software and/or documentation with it showing how to use it. Another
solution is a Caller-ID display box with a serial port. These are also
quite common.   PAT]

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Date: Mon, 02 May 94 10:16:45 EDT
From: Tony Harminc <EL406045@BROWNVM.brown.edu>
Subject: Bulk Call Display


There is an alternative long distance provider here (Toronto) that a
friend subscribes to.  I don't remember their name, but they have a
local access number 416 860-1900.  I notice that when I dial it from
my friend's phone, they return a dial tone almost immediately.  If I
block Call Display using *67, they return a normal busy signal almost
immediately.  (By 'almost immediately' I mean well under one second.)

So what interface are they using to receive the Call Display data ?
It must be some sort of bulk interface, since they are certainly not
letting it ring once and waiting for the data to come down the wire
between the first and second rings.  I wasn't aware that any such
interface was tariffed or standardized.


Tony Harminc


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Is it possible that the number you dial
is being 'handled like' an 800 number, i.e. the way '950' is handled
here in the USA?  On our 950 numbers, the recipient gets the calling
number instantly, as part of the connection the same as with delivery
of the ID on 800 calls. If that is the case with your example there,
then the blocking could be done almost instantly. It may also be that
some form of 'block-blocking' -- or whatever you want to call it -- is
in effect there such as we have in a few places in the USA where the
subscriber can dial a code saying they will not accept calls with 
blocked ID. Here, the telco then returns a voice announcement to that
effect, but perhaps in your exchange telco returns a busy signal instead.
'Block-blocking' is not too common here yet.   PAT]

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From: Roy_Kerwood@mindlink.bc.ca (Roy Kerwood)
Subject: Info SuperHighway Seminar
Date: 02 May 94 17:30:26 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada


I have organized the following seminar for June 24 from 8AM - 8PM:

          THE TRAVELLERS GUIDE TO THE INFO SUPERHIGHWAY

All the information you need to KNOW about the INFO SUPERHIGHWAY!!
Keynote Address Respected professionals involved with the Info
Superhighway will provide detailed info on the superhighway and a
personalized ROAD MAP for you so you or your company can get onto the
SUPERHIGHWAY and get there at the highest speed.  Hands on displays of
the latest Communications Software Video Tele-Conference information.
On line Databases WORLDWIDE Internet Connections, World Wide
Information access.  You will be part of the highest level of the
Information SUPERHIGHWAY and have access to the leading edge of the
latest Communications Technologies Lectures on The Information
Superhighway. Display by hardware, Software, Communications,
Information Suppliers.

Stage :     Presenters
Timing:
  9:00 -    Registration of attendees explore  exhibits

  9:30 -    Introduction to show by Roy Kerwood  10:00 -    Hon Gordon
Campbell has been invited to deliver a Keynote address (Mr. Campbell's
attendance is not critical to the show but would provide us with a
perspective as to where the Government intends to help with Information
Superhighway)

  10:20  -  Mr Mike Patterson of the Internet
            Service provider BC Net informs audience
            of latest developments in the
            Superhighway from his perspective and
            future visions in Panel Format

  11:00 -   BC Tel has been invited to explain the current state of the
            communications Superhighway from a providers point of view and
            how it will develop

  12:00 -   Break for lunch examine the exhibits (lunch will be included.)

  2:00  -   Hon. John Manly has been invited to Video Tele-conference link

  3:00  -   Richard Pitt will explain "point and click" access to the infor-
            mation super highway using Mosaic and give live demonstration
            of the World Wide Web, Archie and other exciting new developments 
            in the state of the art.

  4:00 -    Bruce Woodward of Cyberstore will do a live demonstration of a 
            local BBS.

  5:00  -   Wrap up by Roy Kerwood, participants question period.

  8:00  -   Show closes

                 Thank you for you interest in the seminar.

Date June 24, 1994 Please E-mail me if you would like to reserve space
for you and any of your co-workers.

Admission is $40.00 You may mail your Cheque for tickets to: 

Roy Kerwood @ Associates 907-1011 Beach Ave.  Vancouver BC.  V6E-1T8 
Phone or fax 604-687-3422.

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