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Legal and Public Policy

ATIS works on a variety of legal and public policy issues in support of its core mission. Here you will find:

Legal Training for ATIS Committee Leadership

ATIS provides training for its committees and forum on matters such as antitrust, copyright and patent issues. The goal of this training is to ensure that ATIS committees avoid sensitive legal issues and comply with the established ATIS operating procedures. The most recent training materials, provided in April of 2012, can be found below.

ATIS Legal Training, April 2012 (Members Only)

ATIS 2012 Dues Structure and Impact on Operating Procedures, February 2012 (Members Only)

Recent Activity

_ May 13, 2013
Comments filed by ATIS on behalf of NRSC in response to the FCC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which seeks comment on approaches to ensure the reliability and resiliency of communications infrastructure....more

_ May 13, 2013
Comments filed by ATIS on behalf of NGIIF in response to the FCC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which seeks comment on rules to help address problems experienced with the completion of long-distance calls to rural customers....more

_ April 8, 2013
Comments filed by ATIS in response to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Request for Information on Developing a Framework to Improve Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity....more

_ March 18, 2013
Letter filed by ATIS Network Reliability Steering Committee (NRSC) to provide suggested changes to the Network Outage Reporting System (NORS) and to the associated NORS User Manual Version 7....more