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NCLIS forum on NREN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred King, ALA Washington Office)
Thu Jun 18 16:51:25 1992
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1992 13:21:58 CDT
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From: "Fred King, ALA Washington Office" <NU_ALAWASH%CUA.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
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NCLIS TO SPONSOR FORUM ON NREN
The U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
(NCLIS) will conduct an open forum July 20-21, 1992 on library and
information services' roles in the National Research and Education Network
(NREN). The forum will be held in the auditorium of the Department of
Labor building at 200 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington. D.C.
NREN is part of the High Performance Computing Act of 1991,
PL-102-194, signed into law December 9, 1991. The forum will help clarify
the issues and concerns of the national library and information services
community, both as providers of information to be carried on NREN and as
representatives of large groups of network users and potential users.
The Commission invites comments and suggestions of representatives of
libraries, information services, and other industries, associations,
agencies and institutions to be given at this open forum. The forum's
findings will be made available to the Office of Science and Technology
Policy (OSTP) prior to the December, 1992, OSTP report to Congress on the
NREN.
Those wishing to present oral and/or written statements to the July
NCLIS forum should specifically address one or more of the areas to be
covered in the report to Congress:
1) effective mechanisms for providing operating funds for the maintenance
and use of the Network, including user fees, industry support and
continued Federal investment;
2) the future operation and evolution of the Network;
3) how commercial information service providers could be charged for
access to the Network, and how Network users could be charged for such
commercial information services;
4) the technological feasibility of allowing commericial information
service providers to use the Network and other federally funded research
networks;
5) how to protect the copyrights of material distributed over the Network;
and
6) appropriate policies to ensure the security of resources available on
the Network and to protect the privacy of users of networks.
The forum may be organized in panels according to the six issues
quoted above and/or the types of organizations making statements at the
forum. Parties interested in presenting oral or written statements should
notify Kim Miller at the NCLIS office by June 30. A detailed forum
schedule will then be developed and distributed. Written statements must
be received by August 31, 1992.
For more information, contact Peter Young or Kim Miller at NCLIS, 1111
18th Street NW, Suite 310, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-254-3100.
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