Additionally, the Council has, and will continue to, support, cosponsor, and provide assistance in planning conferences and roundtables on the Year 2000 challenge. To date, we have conducted meetings for regulators from Europe, Asia-Pacific, North and South America and the Caribbean, Africa, and the Middle East, which have provided an excellent means of bringing supervisors together to discuss common interests within specific geographic areas.
What is the state of “international readiness?” As you can understand, it is difficult to measure accurately the level of international Year 2000 readiness, and certainly no one can predict with confidence exactly how the century date change will unfold internationally. There are three reasons for this difficulty.