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New NII docs online at EFF
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 06:07:07 -0400
Posted-Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 23:33:31 -0400 From: Stanton McCandlish <mech () eff org> There's been a flurry of document-releasing recently at the Information Infrastructure Task Force, the National Performance Review, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and the Patent & Trademark Office. EFF is archiving many of the more important documents, including several time-sensitive notices of inquiry, annoucements of conferences, and requests for comments, all of which YOU can participate in. How much of this is hype and how much of this deserves serious attention is a good question, but one might wish to keep in mind that the more agencies talk about regulating NII issues at the same time they are talking about the NII being more like (or just plain being) the Internet, the closer they are to talking about regulating the Internet outright. Speak up now or forever hold thy peace. There are several Requests for Comment included in here, and you owe it to yourself to submit clear and direct comments letting regulators know what you think needs to be done or not done. Available from: ftp.eff.org, /pub/EFF/Policy/OP/ gopher.eff.org, 1/EFF/Policy/OP http://www.eff.org/pub/EFF/Policy/OP/ [NOTE: Due to large number of IITF docs, IITF material maybe moved to a Gov_docs subdirectory of .../OP - if you find that the files aren't there, just append Gov_docs to the paths above. This move is not imminent, but probably eventual.] cat_iitf.charter - Charter of the IITF Committee on Applications and Tech. fed_med_edu_agri_nii_funding.notices - pile of Federal govt. funding mechan- ism and grant notices re: agricultur- al telecom, telemedicine, and distance learning. gii_iitf.note - Short IITF document on the Global Information Infrastructure. Maybe some less parochial memes are catching on? hiawg_iitf.charter - Charter of the IITF Health Information and Applications Working Group iitf.faq - factsheet on IITF, what it is, and what it does. iitf_0912.report - monthly IITF Committee Report for Sept. 1994 iitf_goals_nii.paper - Selection of IITF papers, "The Information Infrastruc- ture: Reaching Society's Goals". nii_access_051394_ntia_cpuc_hearing.summary - Summary of NTIA and Calif. Pub. Utility Commission hearing on open access and the NII nii_access_051394_ntia_cpuc_hearing.transcript - transcript of above hearing nii_prinicples_progress.report - Clinton Administration "NII Progress Report" and "NII Principles and Actions: A Checklist of Progress" report, 93-94. See also WWW version at: gopher://www.arpa.mil:80/0/NII_Report_94.html nist_nii_framework.report - NIST report, "Framework for NII Services". See http://www.eff.org/papers/otherpapers.html for WWW version with graphics. npr_it_082294.report - NPR report, "Reengineering Through Information Technology" ntia_iitf_nii_94_hearings.report - NTIA/IITF summary of 1994 hearings on NII, open access and universal service. Subtitled "America Speaks Out", natch. ntia_iitf_uniserv_conf.announce - Announcement of NTIA/IITF virtual conference on universal service and the NII. * TIME SENSITIVE - DEADLINE: OCT. 14, 1994 * ntia_uniserv_access.noi - NTIA Notice of Inquiry on NII universal service & open access issues. * TIME SENSITIVE - DEADLINE: DEC. 14, 1994 omb_gils.notice - OMB bulletin on establishment of a Government Information Locator Service (GILS) pto_iitf_nii_security.rfc - Request for Comments and Notice of Hearing (PTO and IITF) on Commercial Security in the NII. * TIME SENSITIVE - DEADLINE: OCT. 13, 1994 * pto_intprop_extension.rfc - Extenstion to deadline for comments submitted in response to PTO's Request for Comments on draft report on the NII and Intellectual Property Rights. * TIME SENSITIVE - DEADLINE: OCT. 21, 1994 * putting_ii_to_work_iitf.report - IITF report: "Putting Information Infrastructure to Work" putting_ii_to_work_iitf.comments - public comments from a variety of individuals and organizations on the above report s1822_doc_irving_092094.testimony - Dept. of Commerce Asst. Secy. Larry Irving's Sept. 20 1994 US Senate testimony before the Antitrust, Monopolies and Bus- iness Rights Subcommittee of the Judiciary on S. 1822, the would-be Communications Act of 1994 (Senate companion to the Markey bill, HR. 3636, which implemented most of EFF's Open Platform NII provisions) satel_gii_doc_irving_hr_072894.testimony - Dept. of Commerce's Larry Irving testimony to House of Rep. on satellite-based technologies and the GII tpwg_cat_iitf.charter - Charter of the Technology Policy Working Group of the Committee on Applications and Technology of IITF -- http://www.eff.org/~mech/mech.html Stanton McCandlish mailto:mech () eff org mech () eff org http://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Fndtn. http://www.eff.org/~mech/a.html Online Activist
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