This SSN situation is news to me.  Are they talking about expanding it?  I
just read an article in CIO that they are already starting to use a Zip+4+2
type zip code where the last two are bar coded.  Are they talking about
expanding the phone numbers as well?  I know we are burning through area
codes like flash paper in California, but I hadn't heard of any particular
plans at this point.

Thanks,
Shawn






toback2 <[log in to unmask]> on 10/23/98 05:59:29 PM

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Subject:  Re: All the problems (was:  Y2K problem)




Gavin Scott writes:

>One of the hot questions is what will happen to IS budgets after the year
>2000.  Will there be more Y2K work to do?  Will all the Y2K programmers
>get laid off?  Will budgets go down because the work is over?  Will
budgets
>stay the same or even go up due to the backlog of projects that got
>postponed for the last three years because of Y2K?  Will everyone simply
>move on to the next "Y2K" kind of problem (euro, SSN, etc.)?

Most Y2K conversions will include re-engineering to allow more
flexibility in the future, so that changes to the SSN, phone number
format, Dow Jones range and so on require a couple of twiddles in a table
somewhere, plus some report prettification.

Right?

-- Bruce


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