Sounds great. It all sounded great until it got to the part about "federal funding". I, for one, have a problem with my tax dollars going towards some professor being able to gawk at another professor in a videoconference. -BD On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Paul J. Zawada wrote:
It's a way for Universities to talk to _each_other_ at higher speeds without having to pay for the *ahem* value "added" by the Internet. Higher-Ed institutions want to talk to each other at higher speeds but don't necessarily want pay for their undergrads' (or professors' for that matter) ability to download nudie-GIFs 20x faster. So while there's no more money in the budget for faster Internet connectivity, many university provosts would be willing to spend more money for bandwidth if it were used for "nobler" pursuits. Basically, they want the Internet they had 6 years ago only faster.
Internet II, if it happens, would be Higher-Ed's intranet.