Commencing Monday 3 rd UIST staff will be available to deal with issues channeled through local support staff or the appropriate application Help Desks. Tracking and Intelligence Gathering From early evening on December 31, the Y2K Status Coordinator, using a laptop computer and an independent ISP will keep track of intelligence-gathering sites, amongst which are sites maintained by the US, Australian, and New Zealand Governments. Year 2000 Status Lines for Curtin Staff IT Support Staff will have access to a special telephone status line which will present a summary of the current situation. The line will become operational from the 22 nd of December, but will not convey any useful information until 8am on 1 st of January. A keep-alive, or 'normal' status will be notified to the line at 6pm and 8am daily, in any case.
All staff have a status line on which can be checked for 'abnormal' events.
For the most part they will be advised to check with their Divisional support staff, or with application-specific helpdesks. This line will also be updated, in the keep-alive sense, at 8am and 6pm each day. The phone number for this line is 7855 .