[2552] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Books and journals on-line from publishers and vendors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Wolff)
Mon Mar 16 11:10:22 1992
To: "Manavendra K. Thakur" <thakur@zerkalo.harvard.edu>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 92 11:02:57 EST
From: Stephen Wolff <steve@cise.cise.nsf.gov>
The NSFNET Backbone Services AUP is a joint product of the NSF Networking
Division's Staff and Advisory Committee and the NSF General Counsel. At the
hearings, I was not prepared with the specific citations in the NSF
legislative history and have asked Counsel to supply them.
The Congress may disagree that the citations uphold an AUP, or they may
agree but state that they do not wish the inference to be drawn; in either
case the AUP may fall after further discussions between the Executive and
Legislative branches, with possible intervention of the courts. Or of
course we may all agree that the AUP stands.
My note's only intent was to let the community know that the AUP is being
reappraised, as the Congress requested.
-s
