Statement of Problem. Describe deficiencies of the system.
Statement of Problem. Occasionally bids on CWPPRA projects may exceed the project cost limits. When bids exceed the project cost limits, the options are:
Statement of Problem. The Washington State Legislature has recognized that automobiles are an essential part of our everyday lives. The family car is typically the second largest investment a person owns, the theft of which causes a significant loss and inconvenience to people, imposes financial hardship, and negatively impacts their work, school, and personal activities. Appropriate, meaningful, and proportionate penalties should be imposed on those who steal motor vehicles. King County, Xxxxxx County, and the municipalities therein have experienced an increase in urbanization and population densities resulting in an increase in crime associated with auto theft. This has stretched the resources of individual police department investigative units. Historically, law enforcement efforts focused on auto theft have been predominately conducted by agencies working independently. A multi-jurisdictional effort to handle auto theft investigations has many benefits, including: the more effective use of personnel, improved utilization of funds, reduced duplication of equipment, improved training, development of specialized expertise, and improved information sharing. This results in improved services for all participating jurisdictions and increased safety for the communities they serve through improved auto theft prosecution.
Statement of Problem. The Washington State Legislature recognized that automobiles are an essential part of our everyday lives in passing the Washington Auto Theft Prevention Act in 2007. The family car is typically the second largest investment a person owns, the theft of which causes a significant loss and inconvenience to people, imposes financial hardship, and negatively impacts their work, school, and personal activities. Appropriate, meaningful, and proportionate penalties should be imposed on those who steal motor vehicles. King County, Xxxxxx County, and the municipalities therein have experienced increases to urbanization and population densities resulting in a rise in crime associated with auto theft. This increase has stretched the resources of individual police department investigative units. Historically, law enforcement efforts focused on auto theft were predominately conducted by agencies working independently. A multi-jurisdictional approach to auto theft investigations has many benefits, including: the more effective use of personnel, improved utilization of funds, reduced duplication of equipment, improved training, development of specialized expertise, and improved information sharing. This approach, such as the one detailed in this Agreement, results in improved services for all participating jurisdictions and increase safety for the communities they serve through improved auto theft prosecution.
Statement of Problem. The Internet community frequently voices concern to ICANN about malicious conduct and, in particular, the extent to which these attacks take advantage of domain registration and name resolution services. Consumers, law enforcement, representatives from government and others are asking ICANN, its registries and registrars to monitor the increasing levels of malicious conduct and, when appropriate, take reasonable steps to detect, block and mitigate such conduct. ICANN and its registrars are often viewed by the public as the key to successfully resolving malicious conduct because of ICANN’s contractual relationships with registrars and registrars’ direct customer relationships with certain registrants who misuse the DNS. It would be difficult to define precise rules to govern what actions all registrars should have to take in response to every complaint about malicious conduct involving use of a domain name, but as a first step registrars could be required to be responsible for investigating and reporting back on its handling of credible reports about malicious conduct. Recommendation: Incorporate a provision in the RAA establishing a duty of registrars to investigate and report back to ICANN on what actions the registrar has taken in response to reports received from a credible third‐party demonstrating illegal malicious conduct involving domain names. Implementation Options:
Statement of Problem. RAA Section 3.10 requires a registrar to maintain Commercial General Liability (CGL) insurance to cover liabilities arising from registrar's business operations. Section II.A.3 of ICANN’s Statement of Registrar Accreditation Policy (SRAP) <xxxx://xxx.xxxxx.xxx/en/registrars/policy_statement.html> states that ICANN’s primary purpose in requiring a registrar to maintain insurance is to provide domain‐name holders reasonable compensation for losses caused by the registrar's wrongful covered acts. According to various insurers' available information, a CGL policy includes three basic areas of coverage: bodily injury; property damage, personal and advertising injury; and medical payments coverage. The language of Section II.A.3 of the SRAP seems to indicate that professional liability type‐coverage might be an appropriate form of coverage for a registrar to maintain. Recommendation: Revise the insurance coverage a registrar is required to maintain. Implementation Options: Amend RAA Section 3.10 to allow registrars to maintain appropriate (TBD) insurance coverage to protect domain‐name holders against losses caused by the applicant's wrongful covered acts.
Statement of Problem. RAA Section 5.6 requires three arbitrators. The process to select three arbitrators is time consuming and expensive for all parties. The parties may be better served by the selection or appointment of one arbitrator.
Statement of Problem. The unauthorized access to registrant account data maintained by registrars has resulted in malicious activity such as unauthorized changes to DNS records and redirection of traffic to a domain. When unauthorized access or a breach of privacy of registrant data has been discovered, a registrar currently has no obligation to notify ICANN and the affected registrants. The RAA should be amended to require timely notification to ICANN and the affected registrants in these circumstances.
Statement of Problem. NEED TO BE ADDRESSED BY PROGRAM A. Provide a brief statement of the problem or need your agency proposes to address with the requested funding and/or the impact of not funding this program. If possible, include statistical data to document this need. The BTBC is devoted to attracting and retaining high-paying primary jobs and has been previously designated by the City Commission as an economic development agency.
Statement of Problem. (What is “globally scalable archive federation technology”?) This work package is attempting to investigate and mitigate or suggest solutions to scalability problems in a globally federated storage system. A globally federated archive is in many ways similar to a storage cloud such as Amazon S31 but providing persistent storage tailored to meet the needs of a diverse set of 1 xxxx://xxx.xxxxxx.xxx/s3/ scientific disciplines which commercial providers do not meet. To understand what is meant by the term ‘globally federated archive’ it is necessary to understand what we mean by the terms used. In this document an archive is a location (data centre or similar entity) where data may be stored and retrieved with some guarantee of the persistency and bit-preservation, and long term availability of resources (both physical and human). Thus an archive can be considered to be a persistent data sink and source. The term federation is used to here to mean distributed but globally accessible. While many data centres exist within scientific communities and in some cases already exist as loose federations, these have up until recently been developed primarily for specific disciplines (EIDA, ENES, WLCG, etc). An EUDAT federated archive needs to break out of the domain constraints imposed by specific communities in order to provide accessibility to a wider, cross disciplinary user base, while also both encouraging good practice from new communities not familiar with large volume data storage and ensuring existing requirements of more mature communities can be fully satisfied. It must also be able to cope with disparate storage technologies used at large data centres and allow easy integration of new sites and communities. The primary aim of this work package then is to develop ways which allow existing, single disciplinary archives (which can themselves be a federation across many data centres), to provide information about existing data sets to other disciplines, and access to them, without the end user having to be concerned about where that data might be located, the underlying technology used to archive the data and specific access protocols. We are focussed on trying to exploit the existing systems at different national data centres, to enable them to be linked in this way, while only imposing the absolute minimum overhead of new technology layers. In addition, we aim not only to link existing archives, but also to allow new archives to link into the federation. Achi...
