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Cisco Government Affairs E-Update
Volume 2, Issue 5
25 January 2002
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This Week@WASHINGTON, DC
MORE HIGH-TECH SUPPORT FOR BROADBAND DEPLOYMENT - Chief executives
from some of the nation’s leading information technology companies brought
their case to Washington this week as they met with U.S. policymakers
to provide specific recommendations on the development of an advanced
wired and wireless information infrastructure that will support the
applications of the future. The executives – Michael Dell of Dell, Craig
Barrett of Intel, Christopher Galvin of Motorola, Lou Gerstner of IBM,
Lars Nyberg of NCR and Larry Weinbach of Unisys – are members of the
Computer Systems Policy Project (CSPP), a coalition of CEOs from U.S.
computer hardware and systems companies. During meetings with
Bush Administration officials and Members of Congress, the executives
discussed the importance of universally available, wired and wireless
broadband to future economic development and offered specific recommendations
as a starting point for the nation’s leaders. Their vision is
outlined in a report released by CSPP, “Building the Foundation of the
Networked World: A Vision for 21st Century Wired and Wireless
Broadband.”
CSPP proposes that:
· By year-end 2003, 80% of U.S. homes should be able to get at least
1.5 Mbps broadband
capacity and 50% of U.S. homes should be able to get 6 Mbps from at
least two providers. By the end of the decade, 100 million homes
and small businesses should be able to get up to 100 Mbps affordable
broadband capacity.
· The U.S. make available in the marketplace 120 MHz of spectrum by
2004, with another 80
MHz made available by 2010, to be harmonized with global spectrum use
to the maximum extent possible. The U.S. should implement a process
to make additional licensed and unlicensed spectrum available beyond
2010 in a way that is consistent with an effective, long-term vision
for its management, the organization says.
Both the report and an archived webcast of the event are available
at www.cspp.org.
The report: http://www.cspp.org/reports/networkedworld.pdf
(Adobe required)
HIGH-TECH CEOs PITCH BROADBAND TO CHENEY, HASTERT, OTHERS -
A group of high-tech executives asked senior government officials this
week to help beef up the nation's high-speed Internet infrastructure,
echoing recent efforts by other high-tech lobbying groups. The executives
want the U.S. government to help by easing regulations that slow broadband
construction efforts, making more wavelength available for wireless
Internet systems, and encouraging more research and development efforts. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020124/wr/tech_broadband_dc_2.html
BUSH ADMINISTRATION MUST TACKLE HOW TO DEFINE 'BROADBAND' -
Possibly the
most vexing problems the Bush administration faces in crafting high-speed
Internet policy are defining "broadband" and identifying why
more people do not have it, panelists said at this week’s Broadband
Outlook 2002 Forum. "A
well-defined problem is half the solution," said Dale Hatfield,
a former chief of the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology and
the chairman of the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Department
at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Depending on whom you ask, the problem with
broadband is either that there are few incentives for carriers to invest
or no compelling reasons for consumers to subscribe. Bob Pepper, chief
of the FCC's Office of Plans and Policy, noted that high-speed internet
service is available to most households, and after four years, the adoption
rate is 10 percent. That adoption rate is higher than for the videocassette
recorder, which only hit 10 percent penetration after 10 years, and
color television, which took about a dozen years to hit that mark, he
said. So policymakers must determine
why more people are not buying broadband services. "We need to
be very clear: Is there a problem the government needs to address and
fix?" Pepper asked. (National Journal’s Tech Daily – www.nationaljournal.com)
(Related: see Cisco’s Broadband Primer: http://www.cisco.com/gov/networks/broadband_deploy.html)
WHITE HOUSE BROADBAND PANEL ANNOUNCED - The White House announced
that North Carolina State University Chancellor Marye Anne Fox will
oversee a panel that will develop recommendations on high-speed Internet
policy for President Bush. The
panel is one of four created by the President's Council of Advisers
on Science and Technology (PCAST), which develops science and technology
policies for the Bush administration. Fox's panel is titled Infrastructure
for the 21st Century. "Internet technologies have been a major
reason for our outstanding economic performances of the 1990s,"
Fox said in a Wednesday news briefing outlining the PCAST panels. "It
is quite important that we identify the [regulatory] barriers"
to broadband deployment. High-tech
members that will be part of Fox's panel include Autodesk CEO Carol
Bartz, Semiconductor Industry Association President George Scalise,
Microsoft Executive Vice President Robert Herbold and Dell Computer
CEO Michael Dell. (National Journal’s Tech Daily – www.nationaljournal.com)
PCAST: http://www.ostp.gov/PCAST/pcast.html
COMMERCE’S BOND ADDS ROLE - Phil Bond, the Commerce Department's
undersecretary for the Technology Administration, will be assuming the
added role of Commerce's chief of staff, replacing Laurie Fenton, who
is returning to the private sector. The move increases the profile of
technology issues within the Bush administration and will increase Commerce
Secretary Donald Evans' understanding of high-tech issues, industry
sources said. (National Journal’s Tech Daily – www.nationaljournal.com)
NTIA CHIEF SPEECH ON BROADBAND - National Telecommunications
and Information Administration (NTIA) chief Nancy Victory gave a speech
titled "The New Medium for a New Media?" at the Broadband
Outlook 2002 Conference in Washington DC. She stated that the administration
does not yet have a broadband policy. http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/speeches/2002/outlook_012302.htm
NEW FEDERAL CTO LAYS OUT HIS STRATEGY - The federal
government’s new chief technology officer laid out his plans for defining
and putting in place a technology architecture for agencies in a telephone
interview with journalists. Norman
Lorentz, the former CTO of Dice Inc., said he would focus his attention
on two areas. First, he’ll help agency officials managing the 24 e-government
projects sponsored by OMB define the overall architecture of their projects.
Second, Lorentz said he’d help agencies find the right technology products
for their homeland security needs and develop architectures for them
as well. http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0102/011802h1.htm
GOVNET DECISION NEAR - The White House is almost ready to make
its decision on whether to go forward with the GovNet secure intranet
for critical federal applications, a top federal official said Jan.
23. Within the next two weeks, federal security
experts will brief Richard Clarke, President Bush's cyberspace security
adviser, on the assessment of more than 160 industry proposals for building
GovNet, said Sallie McDonald, assistant commissioner for information
assurance and critical infrastructure protection at the General Services
Administration's Federal Technology Service. http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0121/web-govnet-01-24-02.asp
GOVNET: WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? - GovNet, the pet project of Richard
Clarke, special assistant to the president for cyberspace security,
has yet to stir much excitement from either government or industry.
Clark pitched the project to President Bush in October 2001, saying
it was necessary to have a protected, ultra-reliable network through
which government agencies could share information. Clarke's outline
for GovNet called for a massive, completely private Intranet for government
agencies and authorized users. But critics say identical protected networks
are already available for use by federal agencies, and Clarke's efforts
would be better directed at revamping and revitalizing the existing
systems. Forrester Research released a report in October saying that
GovNet was a "pipe dream" that "simply won't work"
due to the complexity of the proposed project. GovNet, however, is not
dead yet; more than 170 proposals have been received from vendors who
want to be involved in the networks creation. (http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,49858,00.html)
CIO COUNCIL TO PUSH TECH STANDARDS - A CIO Council committee,
with help from several agencies involved in President Bush's e-government
agenda, plans to release a report soon recommending that all divisions
of the federal government use certain technical standards as they build
new computer systems and applications. The potential benefits of using
such standards include greater interoperability among systems, lower
total cost for computer systems through bulk purchasing and centralized
support services, and perhaps even a reduction in the number of systems
governmentwide as agencies with similar business requirements team up
on projects. http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0121/pol-cio-01-21-02.asp
HHS PREPPING FOR E-GRANTS PORTAL - The Department of Health
and Human Services is seeking help in launching a Web portal for electronic
grant applications — one of the Bush administration's 23 cross-agency
e-government initiatives. HHS sent a notice for information to streamline
the federal grant application process using desktop computers, commercial-off-the-shelf
software and Web-based applications. The idea is to handle federal grants
across government swiftly and electronically instead of on paper. HHS
is the lead federal agency in the effort to streamline the process.
HHS also seeks software that can create a package of forms and
documents that are secure from tampering and can use electronic signature
software to verify a person's identity. http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0114/web-hhs-01-18-02.asp
H-1B VISAS JUMP IN 2001 - Demand for skilled foreign workers
reached an all-time high in fiscal 2001--despite a recession and massive
layoffs of American workers. The
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) received 342,035 applications
for H-1B visas between Oct. 1, 2000, and Sept. 30, 2001--a 14.4 percent
increase from fiscal 2000, according to a survey released Tuesday by
VisaNow.com. H-1B visas allow foreigners with college degrees and relevant
job experience to work in the United States, usually for technology
firms looking for programmers and engineers.
The survey, based on public data supplied by the INS, is one
of the first to demonstrate that the recession hasn't necessarily dented
demand for controversial H-1B visas. A flurry of news reports in the
past year have concluded that demand may be shrinking because the INS
issued only about 163,000 H-1B visas in the 2001 fiscal year--far short
of the federal cap of 195,000. http://news.com.com/2100-1017-820302.html
This
Week@INTERNATIONAL
A REGULATORY REMEDY FOR EUROPEAN BROADBAND - The European Union’s
hope of creating a digital society with widespread broadband access
to the Internet has stalled. Saddled with debt, many incumbent telecommunications
operators are cutting back on capital expenses. Meanwhile, the upstarts that were supposed to break down the gates
of Europe’s entrenched monopolies are finding entry much tougher than
planned. As a result, many new companies that were in the vanguard of
the push for faster, more efficient access to the Internet are teetering
on the verge of financial ruin. Added to this, upgrading cable television
systems has been more expensive and more complicated than expected.
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/article_page.asp?tk=346251:1158:38&ar=1158&L2=38&L3=98
(Free registration required)
SLOVAKIA IN 3G LICENCE TENDER - The Slovak government launched
a tender to sell three third-generation
mobile telephone licences for Sk1.5bn (E35m, £22m) each. http://tm0.com/sbct.cgi?s=166389374&i=453591&m=1&d=2227944
AN ODD BROADBAND OFFER IN OZ - Virtual private networks,
cable TV, video on demand, networked gaming, telephony and high-speed
Internet access -- all offered by different providers via one high-capacity
digital pipe to the home. This
is broadband the way it should be -- a competitive free-for-all on the
content side, but delivered through a monopoly data carrier that sweats
the technical details. At least, that's the "open-access"
business model broadband provider Transact Communications is betting
$100 million on in the sleepy Australian national capital of Canberra. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,49853,00.html
CHINESE NET POPULATION GROWING - The number of Internet users
in China grew by almost 50 percent to
33.7 million in 2001, reports the South China Morning Post.
http://www.nua.com/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905357563&rel=true
KENYA BRAVES THE MOBILE INTERNET - Kenyan companies are launching
mobile internet services, anticipating greater demand for these services
than has so far been seen in the West. Swift Global, an internet service
provider, and KenCell Communications, a mobile phone company, have launched
a joint mobile internet service aimed at increasing internet access,
especially in rural areas. The
joint deal with KenCell Communications means that all KenCell Yes customers
can connect to the internet, either using a WAP-enabled mobile phone
or a computer. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1778000/1778062.stm
INTERNET RETURNS TO SOMALIA - A new telecommunications company
has opened its doors in Somalia, two months after the country's only
internet provider and a major telecommunications company were closed
down for allegedly supporting terrorism.
The firm, NetXchange, opened its business on Wednesday with an
attractive charge of 60 US cents per minute for all its telephone calls,
lower than the existing prices in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1775000/1775865.stm
This Week@US STATES
BROADBAND OUTLOOK FOR 2002 - Although approximately 68% of
U.S. homes have access to broadband connections, only 9% to 10% of those
households subscribe to high-speed Internet services, according to research
conducted by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). That disparity was one of the central topics
during panel discussions and speeches at the Broadband Outlook 2002
conference, held here Wednesday. Members of the telecommunication and
media industry, as well as policymakers, debated whether the threat
of government regulation, a lack of consumer interest, or deployment
glitches are standing in the way of greater broadband adoption across
the country. Most speakers at
the conference agreed that something is wrong when only a small fraction
of potential broadband users take advantage of the service, which has
been in existence in the form of cable modems or DSL for about four
years. However, CEA offered some hopeful news: the group estimates that
by the end of 2002 the number of broadband connections in the U.S. will
have doubled to roughly 20% of the potential base, said Sean Wargo,
a senior industry analyst with CEA.
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2002/0123bband.html
GROWTH OF NET USE IN S.F. LEVELING OFF - Move aside, Silicon
Valley: Pittsburgh actually had the fastest-growing Internet surfing
population last year, according to Nielsen/NetRatings.
Also topping the list were Salt Lake City, Phoenix and Raleigh,
N.C. Growth in San Francisco,
Seattle and New York, which have some of the largest numbers of home
Internet users total, is leveling off because those markets are more
saturated relative to other metropolitan areas, said Jarvis Mack, a
senior media analyst at Nielsen/NetRatings.
http://news.com.com/2100-1017-822591.html
AEA STATE AGENDA ANNOUNCED - The electronics group AeA this
week will firm up its positions on various policies that state legislatures
will debate this year and that could affect the technology industry. AeA's State Policy Action Network (SPAN) meT
in Santa Clara, Calif., this week and gave special attention to the
effects state budget deficits could have on industry.
SPAN's agenda will include: broadband deployment; tech companies'
opportunities within state economic stimulus packages and tax policies;
e-government and state and local procurement for information technology
services; online security and privacy; environmental regulations aimed
old computers and other electronic waste; and workforce development
and education. (National Journal’s
Tech Daily – www.nationaljournal.com)
APATHY GREETS BROADBAND PLAN - Michigan's biggest problem with
the Internet isn't a lack of high-speed access, as Gov. John Engler
and his broadband boosters would have us believe.
The reason more people aren't clamoring for a fast connection
to the Web is a lack of compelling content. Add to that an excess of
junk e-mail, intrusive and obnoxious advertising, proliferating pornography
and Web sites with questionable privacy standards that demand too much
personal information. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020124/wr/tech_broadband_dc_2.html
FOOD STAMPS TO BE DELIVERED ONLINE - Most states will make
the Oct. 1 deadline for having a statewide system in place for delivering
food stamp benefits electronically, according to a recent General Accounting
Office report. GAO found that 46 of the 53 jurisdictions that are required
to implement electronic benefits transfer (EBT) systems to deliver food
stamp benefits likely will meet the deadline. The jurisdictions are
the 50 states, Washington, D.C., Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands. http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2002/0121/web-food-01-22-02.asp
OTHER
TECH STORIES OF THE WEEK
POPE SAYS INTERNET 'WONDERFUL' BUT NEEDS REGULATING - The Internet
caters to the best and worst of human nature and needs regulation to
stop depravity flooding cyberspace, Pope John Paul said this week. The 81-year old Pontiff, who last year sent
his first message over the Internet, praised it as a ``wonderful instrument''
that should be used to spread the word of God and encourage global peace. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020122/wr/pope_internet_dc_1.html
NET IMPACT STUDY UPDATED - Cisco sponsored the Net Impact study
which was designed to measure the current and anticipated cost savings
and revenue increases that organizations believe have been created by
their investment in Internet business solutions. It was updated in Dec.
2001. The study contains valuable information on the economic benefits
of the Internet in the U.S.
Some of the key findings in this study are:
-- U.S. organizations that are currently deploying Internet
business solutions have realized a cumulative cost savings of $155 billion
dollars over the 3-5 years since they have introduced these systems.
-- U.S. organizations that are currently deploying Internet
business solutions expect to realize one half trillion dollars in cumulative
cost savings once all Internet businesses solutions have been fully
implemented by 2010.
-- The .36 percent impact on the productivity growth rate generated
by Internet business solutions has the potential to drive forty percent
of the projected increase in U.S. productivity from 2001 - 2011 over
the 1974 - 1995 growth rate.
You can view the study at: http://www.netimpactstudy.com/
DIGITAL DIVIDE: RACISM'S NEW FRONTIER - "If we have racism,"
writes Robin Chandler, "a digital divide is its new colonial frontier."
He suggests that IT has become an important site of struggle for democracy
and social and economic justice. "The future of linking students
and teachers in networked learning communities around the globe represents
the best hope for a peaceful century," says Chandler, who
suggests that IT is key for better jobs and better lives. He
likens the digital divide to structural inequalities such as poverty,
lack of access and unequal educational opportunities. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4336861,00.html
TECHNOLOGY BARRIERS SAID TO HURT TELECOMMUTING - While reluctance
on the part of federal managers is often touted as the biggest barrier
to expansion of telecommuting across the federal government, more practical
matters, such as retrieving office e-mail from home, can also keep employees
from using their homes as satellite work sites, the Office of Personnel
Management says. According to
OPM, just 2.6 percent of the 1.7 million civilian federal employees
telecommute at least once a week. That percentage rises slightly when
you include employees who telecommute less than once a week. Some of
the barriers that keep federal workers from telecommuting include the
reluctance of managers, budget restrictions, concerns about computer
security, technology hurdles and fears by employees that they’ll become
out of touch with the workplace. http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0102/012402t1.htm
NEW GUIDELINES TO HELP DEAL WITH DOCTOR-PATIENT E-MAILS –After filling
a prescription for an antibiotic, Diane McElhany read about possible
side effects and e-mailed her doctor, Karen Ilika, to ask if there were
alternatives. In her electronic reply, Dr. Ilika explained why that
drug was best and urged her to start taking it right away. Ms. McElhany
has become so accustomed to communicating with Dr. Ilika online that
she even e-mailed her from Italy recently to report that a medication
prescribed for the trip had worked just fine. "I feel very plugged
in to my doctor, and I can always get the answer in one day to nonurgent
questions, without being a pain in the neck or playing phone tag with
a nurse," says Ms. McElhany, a Seattle chemist. Using the secure
messaging system on Dr. Ilika's Web site, part of a network of doctor
sites run by Medem Inc., Ms. McElhany can also make appointments and
request prescription refills. Dr. Ilika says she won't ever charge for
routine e-mails, but will consider charging fees for more detailed consultations
later this year, when Medem adds the option to bill patients via credit
card for online consults. http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB1011907875956131160.htm
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CATCH IT BEFORE IT SPREADS
- New Web-based systems could alert public health officials to disease
outbreaks nearly in real time. The Walter Reed Army Medical
Center is testing a surveillance system that is intended to mine data
on multiple health indicators across a population, helping epidemiologists
spot trends
and spikes that a single hospital, doctor or pharmacist might
not see. If the new tools work as planned, they could cut the human
cost of naturally occurring disease outbreaks and biological attacks
by 50 percent to 90
percent, estimates Dr. Alan Zelicoff, a senior scientist at
Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. http://www.washtech.com/news/biotech/14779-1.html
OFFLINE GIANTS EAT UP WEB AD SPACE - Major advertisers are increasingly
taking a shine to the Web as a promotional tool for their wares--a possible
sign for recovery in the lackluster online ad market. This week, Frito-Lay, the maker
of Doritos, said it bagged its annual Super Bowl advertising and tripled
its investment in Internet marketing to an estimated $2 million, a move
aimed at complementing its broader initiative to reach teens. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-822569.html
TECH FIRMS FORM GROUP FOR MOBILE PAYMENT STANDARDS - U.S. and
European technology companies said this week they had formed a consortium
to set standards for payments with mobile phones. The consortium, named
PayCircle, is set up by U.S. computer to printer group Hewlett-Packard,
telecom equipment maker Lucent Technologies, software firm Oracle, computer
and software company Sun Microsystems and Germany's telecom equipment
maker Siemens. ``The consortium aims to provide mobile device users
worldwide a standard means of making mobile payments, regardless of
the payment systems used by merchants or service providers,'' the new
group said in a statement. Until
now, the large number of incompatible payment systems has hindered the
spread of m-commerce, it said. PayCircle intends to define open and
uniform interfaces based on existing standards, without the need to
install any new software. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020124/tc/tech_mobile_payments_dc_1.html
RESURRECTING BROADBAND – MSNBC OP-ED - …we hear that the White
House is going to put its weight behind a proposal that in part harks
back to the Space Race Era mentality of putting a man on the moon before
the end of the 1960s in an effort to “beat the Russians.” The Technology
Network (TechNet), an organization of some 300 high-tech CEOs, has called
on the government to adopt a goal of “100 megabits per second to 100
million homes and small businesses by the end of the decade.” How JFK
of them. “The United States led the world in developing
the information economy. If we want to keep our leadership role, we
need a high bandwidth network that will give U.S. citizens access to
the enormous promise of 21st century technology,” said TechNet CEO Rick
White on the day he announced the proposal. http://www.msnbc.com/news/693047.asp
CONSORTIUM OF 12 UNIVERSITIES BEGINS PROJECT TO DELIVER ACADEMIC
E-BOOKS - Academic libraries and university presses at Big Ten universities
and the University of Chicago have teamed up in an e-publishing venture
that aims to put hundreds of scholarly books in electronic form. Last month, leaders of the 12 universities
committed from $50,000 to $100,000 to develop a prototype for the joint
e-publishing venture, says Tom Peters, director of the consortium's
center for library initiatives. The institutions have worked together
for decades as part of a group called the Committee on Institutional
Cooperation. http://chronicle.com/free/2002/01/2002012301t.htm
FACTS AND
STATS:
E-LEARNING IN WESTERN EUROPE - IDC projects the European business
skills training market will reach $13 billion in revenue by 2006 with
a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14.9%. IDC estimates
that over 27% of business skills training content will be provided through
e-learning by 2005. The UK, Netherlands and Scandinavia are the most
advanced regions in adopting and developing e-learning.
UK BUSINESSES MAKING BROADBAND CONNECTIONS - According to a
survey conducted among readers of the UK business magazine Computing,
as of January 2002 one in five businesses in the UK cannot access broadband
services. Computing reports that two-thirds of its readers have broadband
internet connections, and 18% plan to implement broadband over the next
year.
WIDESPREAD DSL IN JAPAN - Newsbytes reports that according
to the Japanese government, there were 1.52 million digital subscriber
line (DSL) connections in the country in 2001 - up from just 9,732 DSL
lines in operation at the end of 2000. The Ministry of Public Management,
Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications finds that 320,000 connections
were added between November and December 2001.
HIGH DEMAND FOR ON-DEMAND - According to Cahners In-Stat/MDR,
the number of worldwide households using "on-demand" services
(such as video-on-demand and personal video recording) will leap from
1.3 million in 2001 to more than 33 million in 2005. Cahners believes
that video-on-demand will gain much popularity in North America, with
service revenues in the region rising from $86 million in 2001 to more
than $1.75 billion in 2005.
GLOBAL ACCESS DEVICE MARKET HEALTHY - The global market for
all Internet access devices will grow by 41.6 percent between 2000 and
2005, according to Cahners In-Stat.
http://www.nua.com/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905357549&rel=true
For
Facts and Stats on the New Economy, visit our Facts and Stats page. Also, see our special State of the Internet
report on this page. For daily, topical Facts and Stats visit our Hot In Tech
page.
CISCO GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS@2001
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Broadband Deployment and eGovernment. To read or listen to our thoughts on these issues, please visit
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