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Re: EFF, Educom & HR1757
From: Pres Smith <PGSMITH () ucsvax ucs umass edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1993 11:52:38 -0400
Peter Graham asks for an explanation of the allusion to the "curious alliances of EFF & Educom" in my post. I hear EFF & Educom aren't speaking. Nevertheless, both are supporting a quick passage of HR1757 which seems to be on or near the House floor for passage. Among other things HR1757 supports the eventual dismantling of the NSFnet backbone as already envisioned in the NSF solicitation; it fragments federal participation among a number of agencies and gives the primary discretion regarding educational grants for applications, k12 accees, etc. to the NSF as did the Gore bill; it restricts federal involvement in favor of commercial development; it authorizes granting agencies to include network costs in Grantees applications--thus shifting support for general University access to, mainly, science grants. In general, it authorizes giving away of a taxpayer investment of billions of dollars over a 20+year period to industry with only a trickle of of support for general education, k12 and public access. And that's only one of Boucher's bills! Supporters of HR1757 are saying the time and place to take a stand is when the Senate bill is heard, but since this is rumored to be worse, the compromise is likely to be no better than HR1757 at best. EFF is off on some mystical wild hair, and Educom has been satisfied with slight assurances that it's member institutions will continue to be subsidized at some level, all very vague. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prescott Smith Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst pgsmith () educ umass edu EDNET - A forum for the exchange of ideas and information on Education e-mail: Listserv () nic umass edu First Line: Subscribe Ednet (Your name) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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