[10533] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Strange Events at the National Science Board meeting Today
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hans-Werner Braun)
Sat Feb 26 18:07:20 1994
From: hwb@upeksa.sdsc.edu (Hans-Werner Braun)
To: cook@path.net (Gordon Cook)
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 94 9:31:38 PST
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9402121737.aa23123@pandora.sf.ca.us>; from "Gordon Cook" at Feb 12, 94 5:37 pm
>The t-3 deal added 3 nodes (Boston, Atlanta, and Argonne labs in Illinois)
>as new nodes to a 13 node network. Right. How did we get from 16 to 18?
Uh, by the way, the FIX-West and FIX-Est connections were already part
of the T1 network. Whether they constituated additional nodes (15
instead of 13) depends on how you look at it. FIX-West was always a
single threaded T1 between Palo Alto and Ames, with a single PC/RT at
Ames connected to the NSS in Palo Alto. FIX-East was also connected
via some T1 NSS - E-PSP extension for a while, until the equipment
got rehomed into a single location.
My interpretion re NSB meeting annoucements. My understanding is that
according to law, formal federal advisory committee meetings have to
have their meetings announced in some "Federal Register" (or whatever
the name is). There is no law saying they have to be turned into a big
town hall meeting or a circus. In other words, I do not believe that
the federal government has to go out of their way making sure everyone
gets explicitly informed about the meetings. Just like for your FOIA
stuff it is *you* who has to take action to get the information you
like. The feds are just not supposed to *hide* it from you. If there is
anything non-public (like the proprietary information Steve Wolff was
referring to) they have to include that there will be a closed section
in the announcement. I do not know what the requirements are if a
meeting is over early, but I doubt the advisory committee members have
to hang out until the announced closing time, just in case some person
shows up who wants to listen in. Remember, Steve Wolff said his
presentation was on Thursday, not Friday, so I suspect the stuff you
were interested in was all over already by the time your friend showed
up, and it was perhaps a misjudgment only to attend part of the
meeting after interpreting when Steve's presentation may happen.
Hans-Werner
