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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Related to “</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- protection, robustness and resilience against extreme weather (e.g., place power and distribution lines and optical cables
underground against wildfires, snow, ice)</span><span style="color:#1F497D">”:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Municipalities have resilience managers serving under the mayor. These people work with all city offices to coordinate long term resilience activities. Perhaps a similar effort at the federal level makes sense.
My knowledge of federal policy and governmental structure is insufficient to suggest anything more specific.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> themaintainers-bounces@lists.stevens.edu <themaintainers-bounces@lists.stevens.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Tallman, Nathan<br>
<b>Sent:</b> miércoles, 3 de febrero de 2021 08:28 a. m.<br>
<b>To:</b> Themaintainers <themaintainers@lists.stevens.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Themaintainers] infrastructure<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Under coverage, I think we should advocate for reclassifying broadband as a utility, which helps ensure net neutrality and improves access to broadband. The Obama FCC did this, but it was rolled back by the Trump FCC.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/05/worst-case-scenario-why-the-cable-lobby-is-scared-of-becoming-a-utility/">https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/05/worst-case-scenario-why-the-cable-lobby-is-scared-of-becoming-a-utility/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><<a href="mailto:themaintainers-bounces@lists.stevens.edu">themaintainers-bounces@lists.stevens.edu</a>> on behalf of Jonathan Coopersmith
<<a href="mailto:j-coopersmith@tamu.edu">j-coopersmith@tamu.edu</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, February 3, 2021 at 10:46 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Themaintainers <<a href="mailto:themaintainers@lists.stevens.edu">themaintainers@lists.stevens.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Themaintainers] infrastructure<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We would love to see some discussion on this list about what (and how) a Biden administration infrastructure plan
should include – or not include. Feel free to comment below or in our Google doc (</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fdocument%2Fd%2F1KIwcUftbbPFosuCImIgTo9Vi7efjHqwrzLPI-d32NlA%2Fedit*heading%3Dh.sldtfjeu8n39__%3BIw!!KwNVnqRv!Wa5eXMIDkSjQh8d6_dDL_t8KFwpsj8ARrRo6fV7jE22O2cvLuuhOnuoJXbgmEGvzFaoy%24&data=04%7C01%7CTonatiuh.Rodriguez-Nikl7%40calstatela.edu%7C20a1b8d9185d42dc6dd508d8c918caae%7Cce8a2002448f4f5882b1d86f73e3afdd%7C0%7C0%7C637480456553877544%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=CMWCISI5HHL7tFcz6oMxWx8tGoYs25hXAlpfLZ1pE6M%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span class="gmail-gmaildefault"><span style="color:#1155CC">htt</span></span><span style="color:#1155CC">ps://<span class="gmail-il">docs</span>.<span class="gmail-il">google</span>.com/document/d/1KIwcUftbbPFosuCImIgTo9Vi7efjHqwrzLPI-d32NlA/edit#heading=h.sldtfjeu8n39</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Here are a few ideas – thoughts?</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Any good horror stories to exemplify what
<u>not</u> to do?</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Coverage</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">What should a federal infrastructure initiative include?</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- upgrading/replacing USG and state legacy computer systems?
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- upgrading/creating data collection systems for, e.g., underground asset data and similar needs (e.g., Open Geospatial Consortium)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- eliminating lead pipes?</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- universal broadband</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- electric car chargers?</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- secure networks for AVs, IOT</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- protection, robustness and resilience against extreme weather (e.g., place power and distribution lines and optical cables underground against wildfires, snow, ice)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Universal project requirements</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Mandate a maintenance overview of every project with general goals.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> What are those goals?
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Very important is the concept of pay more now for lower life-cycle costs – how can this tradeoff best be expressed or quantified? What is the time frame? This has the
dual benefits of helping the economy more now when it is needed and reducing future spending by governments.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Design for easy maintenance and upgrading – are there specific examples or policies to cite?</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Implementation</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Reinstate the Obama ARRA compliance public tracker</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">What else did the Obama ARRA do right – and wrong (in some cases, “shovel-ready” meant clunkers of projects instead of good, but unfunded projects)?</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Incentivize private and public sector maintenance by creating liability safe harbors for asset owners and operators (analogous to safe harbors protecting MDs from malpractice
lawsuits if they practice evidence-based medicine)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Involve the public as much as possible in understanding the options and tradeoffs. Try to obtain maximum buy-in (remembering that pain tends to be concentrated and gains
diffused).</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Force competing entities to create interfaces for easier data exchange (one flaw of the Obama administration promotion of electronic medical records was its failure to mandate
that firms that received USG$ had to create and offer a universal interface so competing products could compete – the administration believed normal market forces would ensure that. It was wrong).</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Many thanks!</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Stay sane, keep washing those hands, and practice social solidarity as well as physical distancing,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Jonathan</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Department of History</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Texas A&M University</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">College Station, TX 77843-4236</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">979.739.4708 (cell)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Engineering elections: <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fspectrum.ieee.org%2Ftech-talk%2Ftelecom%2Fsecurity%2Fengineering-principles-us-election&data=04%7C01%7CTonatiuh.Rodriguez-Nikl7%40calstatela.edu%7C20a1b8d9185d42dc6dd508d8c918caae%7Cce8a2002448f4f5882b1d86f73e3afdd%7C0%7C0%7C637480456553887530%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=d5WxLSUjGRUCHIgD9NcFl2ZieevBruamvJgrzN3sy3U%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/security/engineering-principles-us-election</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Racial disparities in waiting to vote: <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheconversation.com%2Fit-takes-a-long-time-to-vote-141267&data=04%7C01%7CTonatiuh.Rodriguez-Nikl7%40calstatela.edu%7C20a1b8d9185d42dc6dd508d8c918caae%7Cce8a2002448f4f5882b1d86f73e3afdd%7C0%7C0%7C637480456553887530%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=ZOCEgH9CLISnkz81avDGfOT1YX2bztBZPNTwgJKL8O0%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/it-takes-a-long-time-to-vote-141267</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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