FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
COMMON CARRIER BUREAU

Public Forum on 711 Access to 
Telecommunications Relay Services
    CC Docket No. 92-105
September 8, 1999

AGENDA

1:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.	Opening Remarks

Introductions  
	Helene Schrier Nankin, Moderator 
	Kurt Schroeder, Acting Chief, Network Services Division

Opening Remarks 
	Yog Varma, Deputy Chief, Common Carrier Bureau 

1:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.	Session #1:  Technical Issues in 711 Access to TRS 

Presentations by Guest Speakers
 
(a) The projected costs of implementing an Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) based 711 
system to access TRS and how those costs should be recovered. 

	Richard Ellis, Director of Strategic Alliances, Bell Atlantic

(b) Procedures to ensure that TRS centers provide a choice of carriers to TRS users that will 
carry their TRS traffic from the TRS center to the called party.  

Karen Peltz Strauss, Legal Counsel, National Association of the Deaf and 
Telecommunications Consultant to the Council of Organizational Representatives 

	William McClelland, Senior Manager Global Relay, MCI WorldCom
	
	Claude Stout, Executive Director, Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc.

(c) Implementation of 711 access to TRS on Commercial Mobile Radio Services (CMRS) 
networks.

	Paul Ludwick, Product Manager, Sprint Relay
	
Questions and Answers from the Panelists and the Audience 

2:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.		Break 

2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.		Session #2:  State Implementation Experiences

Presentations by Guest Speakers 

(a) The format that the Maryland Relay Center, in conjunction with Bell Atlantic, has chosen 
to provide 711 access to TRS, and the experiences of other states that are implementing 
711 access.

	Gil Becker, Director, Maryland Relay

	Burt J. Bossi, Product Manager, AT&T

(b) Methods to educate and provide technical assistance to the public about 711 access to TRS, 
including airing public service announcements. 

	Toni Dunne, Training and Accessibility Program Manager, Texas 911 Commission 

	Brenda Battat, Acting Executive Director, Self Help for Hard of Hearing 

	Claude Stout, Executive Director, Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc.

(c) The length of time in which states will be able to implement a 711 system to access TRS.

	Toni Dunne, Training and Accessibility Program Manager, Texas 911 Commission

	Claude Stout, Executive Director, Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc.

(d) Whether to transfer the administration of N11 codes at the local level from the incumbent 
local exchange carriers to the North American Numbering Plan Administrator. 

		Richard Ellis, Director of Strategic Alliances, Bell Atlantic  

Questions and Answers from the Panelists and the Audience