[216] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Implicit Assumptions Crystalizing for the NREN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Lee Schoffstall)
Wed Feb 27 15:13:14 1991
To: jqj@duff.uoregon.edu
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Feb 91 11:12:28 PST."
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 91 14:55:48 -0500
From: "Martin Lee Schoffstall" <schoff@psi.com>
So, I share some of Marty's concern that we haven't done as good a job as
we might at developing a broad base of input for the E part of NREN. I
don't think he's right that it's best characterized as support for big
science; that was much more true in the Jennings era when national
networking was defined as access to NSF supercomputer centers than it is
today.
While I agree with the Jennings era statement, lets remember what happened
then, a big Federal appropriation for "high performance computing"
(which happens to be the title of this bill), was delivered through
the standard paradigm.
What I'm warning you on, is this is easily repeated, and in fact much
of the off the record assumptions and statements point to this as a
high probability for MUCH of the funding. Of course 10% will be carved
out to be distributed to the rest of the squeeky wheels.
Marty
