[11650] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: public funds to help ANS develop VPN Services????
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hans-Werner Braun)
Tue Apr 12 19:44:22 1994
From: hwb@upeksa.sdsc.edu (Hans-Werner Braun)
To: cook@path.net (Gordon Cook)
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 94 9:51:15 PDT
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9404121535.aa20550@pandora.sf.ca.us>; from "Gordon Cook" at Apr 12, 94 3:35 pm
>Are you saying that the $40,000 was only .2 of 1% of the NSFnet budget
>for that year and that therefore it is of no real consequence?
>
>MITRE does intelligence and defense related work for the US gov't, but it
>is a private corporation that would normally be responsible for its own
>network infrastructure..... or so I'd think.
>
>For example would SRI be entitled to the installation of the same equipment?
All I am saying that you should call Eric if you are really after an
answer. At least that may be the fastest approach. I also have two
unidentified (though high level in the community) sources of a rumor
that NSF is not as freely able to respond to things like com-priv email
any more. I think they have to go through their legal department or so
to respond, as some of the discussions were stretching some limits.
Sorry if that was already known fact of com-priv, as I typically only
read the bits and pieces people forward; just too much otherwise.
Hans-Werner
