RE: Preferential Services

I have a similar reaction to Stu's.

"Preferential Services" somehow loses the "it is for your own good", or "for the greater good" connotation that goes with "Emergency Preparedness".

Janet

-----Original Message-----
>From: "GOLDMAN, STUART O (STUART)" <[email protected]>
>Sent: Jul 31, 2006 2:58 PM
>To: Fred Baker <[email protected]>, [email protected]
>Subject: RE: [Ieprep] Preferential Services
>
>Fred,
>
>When people think of "preferential services" often they may think of
>silver, gold, & platinum services such as the airlines have where you
>get preferential service by paying more, or doing more business with the
>service provider. Do we need a term that better reminds us of the more
>unique nature of the  "IEPREP" users in that they provide a service
>during an emergency?
>
>Stuart Goldman
>Lucent Technologies
>[email protected]
>602 493 8438
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Fred Baker [mailto:[email protected]] 
>Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 10:54 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [Ieprep] Preferential Services
>
>You know, I think one thing that trips this group up is in the title.  
>The issue this Working Group is thinking about is not so much  
>"Emergency use of the Internet", which is often about deploying a new  
>network when the usual one has been smashed by a hurricane or an  
>airplane crash, but "Precedence-related Services in the Internet".
>
>Would it make sense, in this recharter, to call it "Preferential  
>Services" or some such thing?
>
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