[231] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Other Researchers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig Partridge)
Thu Feb 28 03:55:07 1991
To: jqj@duff.uoregon.edu
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
From: Craig Partridge <craig@sics.se>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 91 09:22:30 +0100
> One relatively untapped resource is the professional societies. ACM
> members are fairly visible in national networking, but one doesn't see
> much visibility from professional societies in many other network-literate
> disciplines. I would think that encouraging a networking focus at
> Neuroscience conventions or Psychonomics might yield major rewards. Some
> of these organizations may turn out to have networking agendas that are
> NOT well served by present national directions (e.g. I've heard from
> neuroscientist friends that their professional society is considering a
> timesharing dialin email/conferencing system. Why not use NSFnet?
> Apparently because there is concern with security and keeping a low
> profile due to animal rights activism. Or e.g. the physicists who
> avoid SMTP-based mail since fax is so much more convenient a way to send
> pictures.)
Actually there is a lot of low key work going on to reach out to various
other communities. In the past couple of years I personally know of
several interactions with the remote sensing, ecology, botany and
biochemical communities. NSF has been good about encouraging these
interactions and firmly supporting researchers who try to get their
university to provide network access for them.
Craig Partridge
(on sabbatical at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science)
