[10907] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: innovative but not untested approaches
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Salo)
Mon Mar 14 05:16:05 1994
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 94 22:34:08 -0600
From: tjs@msc.edu (Tim Salo)
To: cook@path.net
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
> From: cook@path.net (Gordon Cook)
> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 1994 01:25:23 GMT
> To: com-priv@psi.com
> Subject: innovative but not untested approaches
>
> I am puzzled. I am looking at a document that asserts that the NSF
> solicitation for the VBNS required
>
> "use of innovative (but not untested) approaches"
>
> I cannot find this statement in my copy of the solicitation. If I just
> haven't looked hard enough and it is really there, will someone please point
> out exactly where?
> [...]
Fourth bullet under evaluation criteria.
I would send you a bill, but that would result in a whole lot of
commercial use chatter...
-tjs
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Title : NSF 93-52 - NETWORK ACCESS POINT MANAGER, ROUTING ARBITER, REGIONAL
NETWORK PROVIDERS, AND VERY HIGH SPEED BACKBONE NETWORK SERVICES
PROVIDER FOR NSFNET AND THE NREN(SM) PROGRAM
Type : Program Guideline
NSF Org: CISE / NCR
Date : May 6, 1993
File : nsf9352
NETWORK ACCESS POINT MANAGER,
ROUTING ARBITER,
REGIONAL NETWORK PROVIDERS, AND
VERY HIGH SPEED
BACKBONE NETWORK SERVICES PROVIDER
FOR NSFNET AND THE NREN(SM) PROGRAM
Program Solicitation
[...]
Criteria are listed in descending order of criterion importance.
o Quality and quantity of the proposed services. Also, the
quality of performance measures which the proposer must
develop and adopt to ascertain (at least quarterly) the
quality and quantity of the proposed services
o Plans to assure high quality services to the networking
community during the transition to this new NSFNET
architecture
o Comprehension of the current Internet environment, vision
as to how the NSFNET and NREN program should evolve, and
relationship of proposed services to emerging
international standards such as SONET, ATM, SMDS, and
FDDI
o Capability to design and provide and/or coordinate the
proposed services. Factors include: use of innovative
(but not untested) approaches; ability to adjust to
rapidly changing service requirements; and ability to
develop, adopt, and employ new technologies and relevant
standards
o Proposed procedures to work with personnel from the NAP
Manager(s), the RA, the vBNS Provider, and regional and
other attached networks to resolve problems and to
support end-to-end connectivity and quality of service
for network users
o Documentation of the qualifications of the proposing
organization(s), including: experience applicable to the
provision, operation and management of the proposed
NSFNET Project(s); if a consortium and/or major subawards
are proposed, experience in managing subawards with
special emphasis on establishing performance standards
and monitoring quality control; and description of
proposed facilities
o Capabilities and experience of key personnel including
those that are part of any subaward
[...]
