currently handles the funding for and sets the operating
policies for much of the Internet. The key items that Mr. Kapor was asked to address at the hearing were: To assess the NSF's efforts to provide support to the communities of science, education, engineering and research. To comment on the current plan the NSF to resubmit the award of operation of the NSFNet backbone for competitive bidding. How Congress can help ensure a successful evolution of the Internet into the NREN. To relate his vision of what the NREN might be and become. To define the roles of public and private sectors in realizing such a vision. To suggest specific steps for Congress and federal agencies that would help the goals of the NREN to be achieved. A full text of his testimony will be available in comp.org.eff.news
sometime this weekend as well as available thereafter via ftp from
