[1067] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
NREN funding
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Wolff)
Wed Jul 24 08:47:33 1991
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 91 08:02:43 EDT
From: Stephen Wolff <steve@ncri.cise.nsf.gov>
>> 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")
(Actually, locally, it's the "Little Blue Book", or "LBB".)
And oh yes: that $32.7 million is the ENTIRE NSF networking budget; i.e.,
it includes the pre-HPCC NSFNET funds. Only $9.6 million is "new" money
for NREN.
-s
