[10522] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Chronicle of higher ed & the New Math of NSFnet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Cook)
Sat Feb 26 08:47:11 1994
From: cook@path.net (Gordon Cook)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 10:58:20 PST
In-Reply-To: hwb@upeksa.sdsc.edu (Hans-Werner Braun)
To: hwb@upeksa.sdsc.edu
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Sure you can slice it an dice it in different ways. And indeed the
picture portrayed depends on how one slices and dices. My cut
intentionally presents the total cost for everything version.
What would make me more comfortatble is for pubs like the chronicle
and time magazine is to say that although net spending by the
NSFis about to go WAY up, if things go
as planned some expenditure in one year will come down and in two years should
come down even more.... because most people out there don't understand
all the nuances that you and I do.
They hear this reporting at a simplistic level and say...oh the nsf is
spending less money on the "network"...isn't that nice. When in fact
DNCRI's budget is going *way* up, they are spending MUCH more....quite true, the
increase is in part because they are getting into new areas ..... but
with the simplistic reporting focused on nSFnet which most people tend
to see as the TOTALITY of what is going, the picture that emerges is
really quite different than the reality that I outlined.
So when the Chronicle and Time report on NSFnet funding I hope in future
that they will at least mention in passing the *related* funding. I am just
asking for data on the larger picture.
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Your mention of routing concerns that justify the sizeable contracts
awarded interests me. In this field there are ALWAYS new things to
learn.
Has anyone written anything about these concerns for someone who is
internet literate but NOT a TCP/IP techie? I and I am sure others on
this list would appreciate any referals to such writing.
