NRIC ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETING IN 2006 STILL UNCERTAIN

摘要

The Network Reliability & Interoperability Council (NRIC) may or may not meet in 2006, officials with the new Public Safety & Homeland Security Bureau said Tues. NRIC is an advisory council which makes recommendations to the FCC and to industry on topics concerning public telecom networks. In 2005 and 2006 most FCC attention in regard to public safety issues has been on the Hurricane Katrina Independent Panel, Lisa Fowlkes, a deputy bureau chief, said: 揘ow that the [Public Safety & Homeland Security] Bureau is launched, we will be focusing on the other federal advisory committees. I can抰 tell you a specific date as to when any of the federal advisory committees will be meeting.?NRIC formally met 3 times in both 2004 and 2005, most recently Dec. 16, 2005.