[9273] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: press references to NSF getting out of intnet funding
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Elmer-DeWitt)
Mon Dec 27 17:39:23 1993
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1993 17:33:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Philip Elmer-DeWitt <ped@panix.com>
To: Gordon Cook <cook@path.net>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9312271914.aa24463@pandora.sf.ca.us>
On Mon, 27 Dec 1993, Gordon Cook wrote:
> I have the two references I cited in com-priv about 10 days ago on NSF
> getting out of the internet subsidy business..... one from Tony
> Rutkowski and the other from Philip Elmer Dewit of Time. The Chronicle
> of Higher Ed has said much the same thing. I think this has been
> repeated quite widely in the general press. if anyone has further references to
> this promised activity on the part of NSF, I'd like to see them. Either
> here on the list or privately. Thanks for any help that anyone can offer.
>
My information was that they were trying to get out of the business of
subsidizing the backbone, and wanted instead to subsidize schools,
libraries, hospitals and the like to help them get on the net. I hasten to
add that my sources were not from within NSF.
Phil Elmer-DeWitt
