Yours truly was about to update my flight tracking of the private jet owned by Cisco CEO John Chambers, when I was greeted by the following message on the nifty live flight tracking website, Flightaware.com:
What a bummer to see the message:
This aircraft (N273JC) is not available for tracking per request from the owner/operator.
Why was the message above such a bummer to me? Well, it was only 12 days ago that I started my little blogging experiment:
Where's Cisco CEO John Chambers today?
The purpose of my blogging experiment? To demonstrate the actual success that Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings have experienced in creating the Internet solutions that make networks possible-providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time.
In only 12 days, my "easy access to information anywhere, at any time" went poof!
Investigating to find out exactly why, yours truly has learned that the U.S. Department of Transportation's Volpe Transportation Center has a data stream service called the Aircraft Situation Display to Industry (ASDI), whose stream consists of data elements which show the position and flight plans of all aircraft in the U.S. and optionally, U.K. airspace.
This ASDI data stream is made available to outside vendors such as Flightaware.com, however, in order to have access to the ASDI data stream, Flightaware and other vendors have to sign the Vendor Code of Conduct, which addresses specific actions ASDI vendors are expected to comply with that meet the intent of paragraph 9 of the FAA Memorandum of Agreement (MOA).
All John Chambers had to do to block the live flight tracking of his private jet was submit the Block Aircraft Registration Request (BARR) Form. BARR submissions must be printed on the aircraft operator's company letterhead, signed, and accompanied with a copy of the aircraft registration certificate for each aircraft listed.
Read more about flight tracking and the ASDI data stream.
Perhaps yours truly will begin to live a more productive life, now that I can no longer track the private jet flights of Cisco CEO John Chambers!
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Makes sense for safety reasons
Considering that he's higher up on the Time 100 most influential people (http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1883644_1886141_1884124,00.html) than Barack Obama, it's probably prudent to take personal safety precautions.
// Chris
Makes no sense for safety reasons
Just because someone publishes a list does not make it so.
The president of the US without question is the most influental person due to the amount of political,economic and military might at his disposal.Chambers is not interested in the undue attention given to travels and therefore,he shut public access to this information.
More influential than the Pope too!
According to the rankings in Time, John Chambers is more influential than the Pope too!
Vote Cisco CEO John Chambers for Time 100
Sincerely,
Brad Reese
BradReese.Com Cisco Refurbished
I love it
Brad I love your posts. You always find some good stuff. Chambers should re-instate flight tracking for his jet. He believes in being open and totally transparent in his personal and business life. Why block this? Maybe he is not using telepresence as much as he should and he doesn't want people to find out!
Is Dancing with the Stars next for Cisco CEO John Chambers?
Thank you for your encouragement.
Is Cisco CEO John Chambers perhaps stoking my journalistic hound dog instincts by playing hard to get?
With Chambers' success in the Time 100 rankings, is it possible that John Chambers will now consider making an appearance on my Mom's favorite TV show, Dancing with the Stars?
Afterall, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak has been quite successful with his appearance on my Mom's favorite show, Dancing with the Stars:
Once more, thank you for your encouragement.
Sincerely and most gratefully yours,
Brad Reese
BradReese.Com Cisco Refurbished
It's unfortuante
It's unfortunate that the CEO of Cisco doesn't support transparency. He really should turn the data back on. I agree that he perhaps not using telepresnce as much as he could.
Contradictory with regard to the Cisco corporate overview
Chambers' action certainly does appear contradictory with regard to the Cisco corporate overview mantra that Cisco products, software and services provide:
Sincerely,
Brad Reese
BradReese.Com Cisco Refurbished
What, are you kidding?
What, are you kidding?
According to the most recent Time Magazine rankings, John Chambers is more influential than the Pope and President Obama!
And you don't think the whereabouts of such an influential person is important?
Sincerely,
Brad Reese
BradReese.Com Cisco Refurbished
What's really scary
What's really scary to me is that Cisco does not "employ the alphabet" to list its blogger biographies:
http://blogs.cisco.com/authors/
Now that to me, is extremely and profoundly scary!
Sincerely,
Brad Reese
BradReese.Com Cisco Refurbished
Brad you're obviously a
Brad you're obviously a talented man. Can you please focus your NWW articles on more technical issues? The Chambers and Cisco bashing is obnoxious and would be better accepted on a Juniper forum.
Thanks!
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