Introductions
    Helene Schrier Nankin, Moderator
    Kurt Schroeder, Acting Chief, Network Services Division

Opening Remarks
    Yog Varma, Deputy Chief, Common Carrier Bureau

1:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. Session #1: Technical Issues in 711 Access to TRS

Presentations by Guest Speakers

(a) The projected costs of implementing an Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) based 711 system to access TRS and how those costs should be recovered.

Richard Ellis, Director of Strategic Alliances, Bell Atlantic

(b) Procedures to ensure that TRS centers provide a choice of carriers to TRS users that will carry their TRS traffic from the TRS center to the called party.

Karen Peltz Strauss, Legal Counsel, National Association of the Deaf and Telecommunications Consultant to the Council of Organizational Representatives

William McClelland, Senior Manager Global Relay, MCI WorldCom

Claude Stout, Executive Director, Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc.

(c) Implementation of 711 access to TRS on Commercial Mobile Radio Services (CMRS) networks.

Paul Ludwick, Product Manager, Sprint Relay

2:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Break

2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Session #2: State Implementation Experiences

Presentations by Guest Speakers

(a) The format that the Maryland Relay Center, in conjunction with Bell Atlantic, has chosen to provide 711 access to TRS, and the experiences of other states that are implementing 711 access.

Gil Becker, Director, Maryland Relay

Burt J. Bossi, Product Manager, AT&T

(b) Methods to educate and provide technical assistance to the public about 711 access to TRS, including airing public service announcements.

Toni Dunne, Training and Accessibility Program Manager, Texas 911 Commission

Brenda Battat, Acting Executive Director, Self Help for Hard of Hearing

Claude Stout, Executive Director, Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc.

(c) The length of time in which states will be able to implement a 711 system to access TRS.

Toni Dunne, Training and Accessibility Program Manager, Texas 911 Commission

Claude Stout, Executive Director, Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc.

(d) Whether to transfer the administration of N11 codes at the local level from the incumbent local exchange carriers to the North American Numbering Plan Administrator.

Richard Ellis, Director of Strategic Alliances, Bell Atlantic