[1057] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Text of chron-nren
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Adams)
Tue Jul 23 16:23:00 1991
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 91 16:21:27 -0400
From: rick@uunet.uu.net (Rick Adams)
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: your article <9107222304.AA01337@magic322.chron.com>
> The actual level of funding in millions of dollars for the Inter-
> net computer network and the projected cost of developing Inter-
> net into the National Research and Education Network over the
> next five fiscal years:
>
> +----------------------------------------------------------------+
> | Agency* 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 |
> +----------------------------------------------------------------+
> | NSF $169.0 $213.0 $262.0 $305.0 $354.0 $413.0 |
> +----------------------------------------------------------------+
...
> +----------------------------------------------------------------+
> | Totals $489.4 $637.8 $807.0 $979.52 $1,116.0 $1,273.5|
> +----------------------------------------------------------------+
> | NREN TOTAL (Fiscal years 1992-96): $4.8 billion |
> +----------------------------------------------------------------+
>
> Source: National Science Foundation, White House Office of Sci-
> ence and Technology Policy, House-approved version of the High
> Performance Computing Act of 1991
>
Funny, that's not what my copy says.
You have taken the numbers for the ENTIRE High Performance Computing
and Communications budget of which NREN is just a part (14% in 1992) and
used them for NREN.
E.g. the CORRECT NREN total budget for 1992 is $91.9 million out of the
total HPCC budget of $638.3. The NSF component is $32.7 million (page 24,
"Grand Challenges..." The so-called "blue book")
You'd think numbers would be an easy fact to get right. Or is a 700%
error acceptable in your business?
