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Reflections On T he Pickle We’re In

Reflections On T he Pickle We’re In. Stephen Wolff (an earlier instance of Alan Blatecky ). Commercializing the NSFNET was a great idea. Privatizing it wasn’t. You remember how that went:. Backbone $$ -> Regionals NAPs …and the vBNS as a coda to the NSFNET.

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Reflections On T he Pickle We’re In

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  1. Reflections On The Pickle We’re In Stephen Wolff (an earlier instance of Alan Blatecky)

  2. Commercializing the NSFNET was a great idea

  3. Privatizing it wasn’t

  4. You remember how that went: • Backbone $$ -> Regionals • NAPs • …and the vBNS as a coda to the NSFNET

  5. NSF should have believed in itself • And realized that as R&E became an ever smaller fraction of the business, it would have an ever diminishing voice in the service it received • If it weren’t for competition

  6. Oh, wait…

  7. “We know where we have to be. We just can’t figure out how to get there”But then they did figure it out…

  8. The result, as it became clear that privatization was or would become a failure? • UCAID, Abilene, and Internet2, and later, NLR • Fragmentation and restructuring of the regionals

  9. So that today, the US is the only developed country without organized support by the central government for its NREN(ESnet is a semi-exception)(until BTOP – but there is just one slight problem)

  10. Example effect: Industrial partners • TERENA • to exchange ideas and requirements • to participate in joint research activities • to take part in the testing, debugging and evaluation of advanced products and services; • to provide industry with a very demanding real user environment • to develop the new business partnership model between industry and the community, extending the traditional customer-vendor relationship. • to work together in national and international projects, where information transfer between the community and industry is one of the objectives and benefits of the project. • Internet2 • Not as well-formed, but similar

  11. What Department of the USG should fund “the US NREN”? • Is the scale and scope appropriate for NSF? • There are NREN veterans and NREN-savvy people now in government • This is a dialogue and debate whose time has come

  12. To the problem at hand… • 200,000CAIs? • US-UCAN may be the backbone… • …but the ARNs get to do the heavy lifting • Dilution of focus and erosion of service • Different breed of clientele

  13. Good news is: we are not alone • Expanded role for the NREN is becoming common • It is easier to hold a centrally-funded not-for-profit to its social obligations than to subvert the investor focus of a corporation

  14. SURFNET (NL) • Universities • Academic hospitals and teaching hospitals • Institutes for higher professional education • Research institutes • Corporate R & D departments • Scientific libraries • Other organizations funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sciences

  15. Thank you

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