[2355] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: House hearings scheduled on NREN/ANS/NSF "monopoly" allegations?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Seiden)
Wed Feb 19 12:32:13 1992
From: mis@seiden.com (Mark Seiden)
To: eldred@ans.net (Susan Eldred)
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 92 11:30:44 EST
Cc: geoff@fernwood.mpk.ca.us, com-priv@uu.psi.com, members@farnet.org
In-Reply-To: <CMM.0.90.2.698510723.eldred@home.ans.net>; from "Susan Eldred" at Feb 19, 92 9:45 am
>
> > Does anyone have any information regarding the hearings of the House
> > Committee on Science and Technology, Science subcommitte, that have been
> > scheduled on March 17th regarding the various allegations that have
> > recently appeared in the New York Times, Communications Daily, etc.
> > regarding NREN/ANS/NSF, et al. ?
> >
>
>
> I did some checking on this, and I think you've gotten your facts wrong. The
> hearings will not focus on the subject of those articles.
>
so are you going to tell us what you found out? are they meeting and
it's about something else?
> I must confess that, as a taxpayer, I would be more than a little annoyed if
> a House subcommittee convened to discuss some baseless accusations by a
> disgruntled competitor.
>
> Susan Eldred
>
House members and their staffs are usually trained as lawyers and as
such become accustomed to various forms of adversary process. it's
quite common for disgruntled parties to blow the whistle resulting in
an investigation.
as a competitor who still seems to be gruntled you hardly seem in the
best position to speak as a taxpayer on this issue, although perhaps
your opinions whether anita hill's accusations were worthy of
investigation might be of interest for calibration purposes.
--
mark seiden, mis@seiden.com, 1-(203) 329 2722 (voice), 1-(203) 322 1566 (fax)
