[9763] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Drafting Legislation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert David Steele)
Thu Jan 20 07:25:04 1994
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 04:24:13 -0800
From: Robert David Steele <steeler@well.sf.ca.us>
To: com-priv@psi.com, cosndisc@bitnic.BITNET, cpsr-members@eff.org,
OSS Inc., a non-profit educational association dedicated to establishing
a national knowledge strategy and a "virtual" intelligence community that
serves citizens with "open books" approach to knowledge, has been asked
to draft legislation.
Comments are invited. Our approach will be simple: the President will be
required to *have* a national knowledge strategy (we call it the strategy
of "national engagement") and to report this strategy to Congress annually
as he now has to report on his national security strategy. The Vice
President will be designated Chief Information Officer of the Nation, and
all Federal Departments will have CIO's that constitute a Senior
Inter-Agency Group for information *resource management* across the
government. To nurture the capabilities of our information continuum
(K-12, univ, lib, private investigators/information brokers, business,
media, govt, defense, and intelligence), a National Knowledge Foundation
will be proposed, funded at $1 billion a year, to nurture *distributed*
centers of excellence *outside* government--centers charged will increasing
the *content* of the information commons. Over-all the strategy will be
required to address Connectivity (NII doing fine), Content (no one is in
charge now), Culture (enfranchising our ethnic minorities to integrate
their cognitive templates), Coordination of infotech R&D across public
and private sector boundaries, and finally, C4 (command, control,
communications, computer) security--we have a house built over a sinkhole--
moving $1 billion from DoD to nurture improved redundancy and other non-
intrusive survivability measures in civil infrastructure is critical.
Please send comments, using subject line: Strategy Comment to
<steeler@well.sf.ca.us>
Written materials and background information can be mailed to:
OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS, Inc.
(Attention: Strategy Comment)
11005 Langton Arms Court
Oakton, Virginia 22124-1807
Voice: (703) 242-1700
Fax: (703) 242-1711
Note: rough draft of bill is due this coming Monday, 24 January,
for early circulation to Members. We will be working all week-end
if anyone wants to communicate then.
