Re: A Ridiculous Failure of Critical Infrastructure

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: stephen wolff <swolff () cisco com>
> Date: December 2, 2009 5:23:48 PM EST
> To: dave () farber net
> Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Re:    A Ridiculous Failure of Critical  
> Infrastructure

> I think you're talking about the High Performance Computing and  
> Communications Program, which contained lots more than networking  
> (supercomputing and software and education) and was multi-agency  
> (NSF, DoE, NASA, DARPA, ...) to boot.
>
> NSF never saw a billion dollars for network infrastructure.
>
> stephen wolff
>
> On Dec 2, 2009, at 12:40, David Farber wrote:
>
> > The bipartisan compromise of 1990 was NSF could pump $1bn into the  
> > backbone, over 5 years, ie $200m/yr; and then it was up to industry  
> > to carry the net forward.



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