IP: Today we are surprised!

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
> cc: Hiromichi HASHIZUME <has () nii ac jp>
>
> From: Hiromichi HASHIZUME <has () nii ac jp>
>
> Today we are surprised!  The evening edition of Asahi newspaper
> ran an article including your comment with your photo.  Please
> see:
>
>   http://webserv.rd.nacsis.ac.jp/~has/dave.gif
>
> The title of the article is:
>
> "The next generation Internet -- 2,  Change of the cast in the
> play,  From universities to industry."
>
> Your comment is in the bottom two columns of the article, following
> the preceeding text of a brief history of the Internet and the
> Internet 2 project.
>
> .... An executive of a big company which participates in the
> Internet 2 project gave us a comment:  "We love this project,
> as we can test a product in it, whenever we want."  At the
> same time, however, he said "frankly speaking, what we are interested
> in most is not the project itself, but the good researchers we can
> recruit."
>
> The FCC chief engineer Mr. David Farber said, "Industries are
> increasing investment to the Internet year by year for the
> survival.  Universities cannot match the industries if they
> keep on the way they did before.  There will be little hope
> for the Internet 2 project -- it will not be able to catch up
> the industries."
>
>   .... a comment of Jun Murai follows, "virtually no universities
>        (in the US) actually do Internet 2 research" ....
>   .... majority members of ISOC belong to large companies ....
>
> "But the Internet industries are just extending what we developed
>  in the universities before.  They only have taken over the result,"
> says Mr. Farber.  "As long as they keep the latest development
> information open, it is very healthy condition."