We don't want the agencies to assume responsibility for things they can't control, but we do want them to do whatever they can to make sure people are focused on Y2K as a serious problem. There's a rumor floating around that every programmer working for the federal government is being lured away by tantalizing offers from the big systems integrators and consulting firms. There hasn't been a noticeable increase in attrition lately. In sum, we're monitoring it. But at this stage, there hasn't been the mass exodus that we were all concerned about.
Local governments are an area of concern.
Most states don't have a Y2K coordinator, and they should at this stage. And the states need to be reaching out to county and city governments. But the response so far, anecdotally, is that a lot of counties and cities are paying no attention to this, as if it doesn't affect them. I'm also concerned with Y2K internationally, where probably 75 percent of the countries have done nothing about the problem yet. We live in a global, interconnected economy.