[1723] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
In Feb 1988 Gordon Bell Said:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Cook)
Sat Dec 14 21:13:55 1991
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: 14 Dec 91 20:57:22 EST (Sat)
From: cook@tmn.com (Gordon Cook)
<<MESSAGE from>> Gordon Cook 14-DEC-91 20:57
cook@tmn
The following quote from Gordon Bell on page 57 of the Feb 1 1988 IEEE
Spectrum caught my eye recently:
"Both the exceutive and legislative branches of the Federal Government are
simply incapable of setting up a line item [network] to be funded and
administered, either by an agency or an interagency group, even though the
[network] facility would support the entire research and higher education
community." > "A radical approach though could work: select a private
sector company to manage and develop the network, and provide it with a
budget, to which every agency would contribute under NSF guidance. (Each
would list its support for the network as a single line item in its
budget. Each would also relinquish control of its networks to the
manager.) Assure the network manager of steady support -- both fiscal and
political -- for the first five operating years or so of the network. And
instruct the manager to devise a plan for gradually shifting all operating
costs to users."
"Both the national research network and supercomputer facilities could be
funded in this fashion."
