[9103] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
NSF Backbone Extension
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Updegraff)
Fri Dec 17 11:35:39 1993
Date: 17 Dec 1993 10:30:51 -0800
From: "Updegraff" <Updegraff@mac.ripon.edu>
To: "com-priv" <com-priv@psi.com>
>From EDUPAGE 12/16/93:
NSF EXTENDS NETWORK CONTRACT. NSF has extended a contract withMerit Inc. for
managing the NSFNET backbone. The extension, worth as much as $15 million,
gives NSF until April 1995 to implement its plan for reducing government
support of the network. (Chronicle of Higher Education 12/8/93 A17)
