IP: till the courts speak -- "at this time," from edupage

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

LAWSUIT THREATENS NGI FUNDING 
A lawsuit filed last month by a group of companies against Network Solutions 
and the National Science Foundation could prohibit the NSF from spending its 
share of the money allocated to the government's Next Generation Internet 
project. Congress recently authorized NSF to spend $23 million on the 
high-speed network, derived from a trust fund run by Network Solutions to 
promote the Internet's "preservation and enhancement." The company 
contributes about a third of all Internet domain name registration fees to 
the fund. A lawyer for the plaintiffs says the money already in the trust 
fund is now "subject to the jurisdiction of the federal court and must not 
be touched," but an NSF networking official told Senators last week that the 
money had already been transferred to NSF's account. NSF's general counsel 
says "at this time, we plan to follow Congress's directive." (Chronicle for 
Higher Education 14 Nov 97)








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"Photons have neither morals nor visas"  --  Dave Farber 1994
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