[9618] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: New NSF Agreement - Who will decide ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Cook)
Fri Jan 14 10:54:47 1994
From: cook@path.net (Gordon Cook)
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 15:52:02 GMT
Apparently-To: <com-priv@psi.com>
Steve says of the august national science board:
about as easy a
pushover as the Washington Monument.......
Pardon me? In a phone conversation with a National Science Board
staffer a week or so ago I asked when the last time was that the science
board had refused to accept or endorse a recommendation put before it.
The response: not once in the year he had been with the science board.
Now these very august and very busy individuals have 40 to 70 memoranda
to approve or other wise react to for each of their meetings. Given
the complexity of the solicitation and the issues involved, is there
someone here who could make a cogent argument that the science board is
going to second guess you Steve???
And just to be sure I have a FOIA REQUEST in asking to be sent the full
particulars of the last three occasions on which the national science
board has refused to go along with recommendations of NSF program
managers. If what the staffer told me is correct they will have to go
back more than a year.
I guess the monument has some real cracks underneath its foundation.....
Now what would be interesting to explore is the relationship between
OSTP and NSF.
