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From: bcsaic!carroll@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Jeff Carroll)
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Subject: Re: Question About "Point of Demarcation"
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Date: 11 Oct 90 05:41:04 GMT
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In article <12849@accuvax.nwu.edu> dgc@math.ucla.edu writes:

>In TELECOM Digest, V10, No. 693, Roger Clark refers to new FCC
>regulations concerning inside wirng rules and, in particular, refers
>to "the point of demarcation" between the telco's wiring and the
>subscriber's wiring.

>Does the FCC require that there be such a point of demarcation?  I
>live in GTE country and neither I, nor my neighbors, have such a
>point.  Does this point (which I assume is a modular jack and plug)
>have to be accessible without entering the subscriber's premises, or
>at least without passing through a locked gate or door?

	I am served by US West. The only feature I have in my wiring
which could be called a "point of demarcation" is a small terminal block
on the inside wall of my garage, covered by a neoprene boot which says
"Bell System" on it.

	Clearly no one has been out to install a "point of demarcation"
or any other wiring at my house since long before the MFJ - possibly not
since Judge Greene was in law school.

	Remember, the "point of demarcation" was brought to us by the
same brilliant legal minds who gave us the law against listening to
cellular telephone transmissions, which made most of us who own TV sets
criminals. In my case, that point coincides with a well-identifiable
point inside my house - other people may not be so "lucky".


	Jeff Carroll
	carroll@atc.boeing.com