[9515] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Advisory Committee resources
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (The future Ross Stapleton-Gray)
Fri Jan 7 09:58:31 1994
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 7:57:37 -0700 (MST)
From: The future Ross Stapleton-Gray <STAPLETON@bpa.arizona.edu>
To: com-priv@psi.com
Ken Deutsch <deutsch@ba.com> says:
>> What the Advisory Committee might consider asking as a terms of their
>> participation that the IITF fund the necessary equipment to set up the
>> means to collect citizen views and to disseminate opinions and
>> issues under debate, e.g., a gopher at site "niiac.org" plus a couple of
>> listservs or newsgroups on topics as required.
>>
>> Ross
>
> The IITF already has a gopher "IITF.DOC.GOV", why not just ask for a
> section of it for use of the Advisory Committeee.
This is possible, but, having seen the issue come up in the context of the
Federal Networking Council and FNC AC already, there might be good reasons
for having an Advisory Committee resource *not* be on a Federal government
site. This would have to do with what could or couldn't be made public,
when and how, with respect to FOIA rules, statutory requirements, etc.
I'm not a lawyer (and would ask to be anesthetized if I looked like I were!
;-) but there is that to consider. Mitch Kapor would probably have a good
idea of what would work, and EFF's got a reasonable track record for
advocating open platforms...
Ross
