[11673] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
meritorious high bandwidth applications
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Cook)
Wed Apr 13 07:47:47 1994
From: cook@path.net (Gordon Cook)
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 05:03:41 GMT
To: com-priv@psi.com
The NSF 93-52 solicitation said
"Network Providers connect an increasingly broad base of client/member
organizations, provide for interregional connectivity, and provide other
networking services for their clients/members. One such networking service
may be the provision of special connections for their client/member
institutions that have **meritorious high bandwidth network applications**.
It is anticipated that regional networks will continue to play these important
roles."
And again:
"Under awards resulting from unsolicited proposals and/or from proposals
submitted in response to existing and anticipated solicitations and program
announcements, **NSF may support regional networks** for activities such as:
providing special connections for client/member institutions that have
**meritorious high bandwidth network applications;**"
Question: Has anyone defined what a "meritorious high bandwidth network
application" is?
For months NSF gave the impression that subsidies to the regionals were
ceasing. However in the slides that steve used at FNCAC on 4/6/94
we have
One slide said that inter-regional network connectivity funds would have:
Quote:
Four year sunset, recovered funds slated for. . .
... a new program for high bandwidth connections
Close Quote
A second slide said Quote:
"high bandwidth connections program" announcement being written for release
later this year
and
planning with supercomputer centers for separation of high speed and commodity
access.
Close quote.
Could I be forgiven for thinking that this sounds like a pledge to continue
the subsidies to the regionals at the levels of the interregional connectivity
program indefinitely?
only this time for
"meritorious high bandwidth applications" which leads me to ask the definitional question.
