[11589] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: significant NSF policy made at FNC meeting?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sun Apr 10 04:27:46 1994
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 1:21:09 -0500 (CDT)
From: Sean Donelan <SEAN@sdg.dra.com>
To: com-priv@psi.com
>I was told from someone who talked to someone who heard Steve Wolff at the FNC
>meeting that Steve announced that network service providers wouldn't have
>to connect to all four NAPs after all.
I don't believe anything new was said. It was simply a report on the
current status of the solicatation. Which if you have been reading com-priv
or the trade press, you already know the status (limbo). The VBNS RFP
required connection to only three of the NAPs. The NAP at Washington D.C.
was only "desirable" in the RFP, and remains so.
>It would be nice if those inside the beltway would let the rest of us know
>what is going on. Steve wolff made a fine presentation falls a little short
>of the informative mark in my book.
I happened to attend this meeting in person, but the FNC & NSF made
arrangements to broadcast the meeting on the MBONE. At least for some
of the meeting Moscow, Russia was on the channel. My recollection from
looking at the channel watchers list, there seemed to be more sites
outside the U.S. than inside the U.S. watching the meeting.
It was also announced that NASA has donated space on a machine to
serve as a repository for the various FNC/AC documents. The FNC
administrative staff intend to put as many of the documents online
as soon as the staff can work out their procedures (welcome to the
post-PROFS world of electronic document management).
Ok, now that I said that. I also want to encourage more wide spread
dissimination of this information (the FNC/AC server is a start). I
would prefer not having to go to Washington, D.C. just to keep informed.
Its rather annoying to all concerned to file a FOIA request for this
stuff, but if that's what it takes so be it.
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Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
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