ip: FIVE DIFFERENT BILLS INCLUDE FUNDING FOR NEXT-GENERATION

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

Five of the 13 bills spending bills still to be dealt with by Congress when
it returns to work this week include provisions for funding various federal
agencies efforts to participate in building the Next-Generation Internet.
Government efforts will parallel the university-sponsored Internet 2
activities.  The agencies will work directly with the Internet 2 project to
help tie its high-performance campus backbones into the larger national
infrastructure.  Under President Clinton's proposed spending plan, the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency would receive $40 million; the
Energy Department $35 million; the National Science Foundation and the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration $10 million each; and the
National Institute of Standards and Technology $5 million.  The National
Library of Medicine has said it will also try to commit $5 million to the
project.  (Chronicle of Higher Education 5 Sep 97)