Reliability and Vulnerability Working Group Documents


The members of the Reliability and Vulnerability Working Group (RVWG) of the Telecommunications Policy Committee of the Government's Information Infrastructure Task Force recently approved two documents for publication:

* Reliability and Vulnerability of the National Information Infrastructure: Blueprint for Action identifies the information needs of both day-to-day and emergency users of the National Information Infrastructure (NII) and defines the attributes of reliability and security in the NII that would satisfy national requirements.

* The Capability Assessments companion document presents a set of features and capabilities of the NII that are consistent with these reliability attributes and provides a preliminary assessment of how well the current NII supports these capabilities.

* The NII Risk Assessment: A Nation's Information at Risk was conducted by the Reliability and Vulnerability Working Group (RVWG) of the Information Infrastructure Task ForceÆs (IITF) Telecommunications Policy Committee (TPC). The RVWG is an interagency working group chartered to be the government's focal point in defining the attributes of reliability for the NII. To this end, the RVWG identified a number of actions, including this risk assessment, necessary to identify and address NII reliability and survivability issues.


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