[11663] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: public funds to help ANS develop VPN Services????
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph W. Stroup)
Wed Apr 13 03:33:05 1994
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 17:07:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Joseph W. Stroup" <nettech@crl.com>
To: Gordon Cook <cook@path.net>
Cc: hwb@upeksa.sdsc.edu, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9404121535.aa20550@pandora.sf.ca.us>
Not exactly true. Mitre can legally be allowed such access to the
Internet not to mention many other resources that the U.S. government has
to offer. Case in point: In Battle Creek , Michigan the DLSA offices have
a suite of offices set aside for the computer computer that has the gov't
contract on massive database services. No where in the contract does it
say that the govt agreed to do this. The gov't can and legally does such
things all the time. The NSF net is no exception.
Joseph Stroup
On Tue, 12 Apr 1994, Gordon Cook wrote:
> 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?
>
