Internet: Getting more money ...??

Fri Oct 11 22:30:46 UTC 1996

In message <199610111629.MAA23304 at bifrost.seastrom.com>, "Robert E. Seastrom" w
rites:
> 
> Would it be impolite to point out that if a $100M R&D effort would
> create the technology for a 2-3 order of magnitude speed-up, that the
> private sector would be falling all over themselves right this second
> to make it happen?
> 
> Oh yeah, I forgot, he didn't exhale...
> 
> 
> 
> Clinton Seeks Upgraded Internet 
> 
> President Clinton is emphasizing the high-tech road of the future on the
> campaign trail today. During visits to Knoxville, Tenn., and Dayton, Ohio,
> Clinton proposed a $100 million plan to expand the reach of the Internet.
>                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> ``It would lead to an explosion in learning,'' Clinton told a campaign rally
> in downtown Dayton. In Knoxville, Clinton said he wants to see the day ``when
> computers are as much a part of classrooms as blackboards.'' The proposal
> includes giving free Internet service to schools and libraries and upgrading
> the Internet to make it 100 to 1,000 times faster than the existing system. 
> 			   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 

Check out the OIG March 23, 1993 review of the NSFNET program.  The T3
NFSNET was provided at a cost lower than one IXC bid for a T1 network.
The cost of the T3 NSFNET backbone service was $10M per year for 5
years, $15M per year for the 2 year extension.

An Internet-II might provide incentive for IXC to bid cutting edge
technology at or near (or under) cost, because if they don't a
different carrier will gain an edge.

Curtis