i did not mean that the public owned and ran it. i just meant that it was predomantly used by the public. information society. and because money talks and the universities in your group will listen when the right amount of money is speaking the public will use internet2 in time. 


--- On Wed, 10/29/08, Peter Hunsberger <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Peter Hunsberger <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Come Together
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 11:42 AM
> It's essentially a research project, the government is
> somewhat involved
> (mostly at a funding level, but also as part of the
> institutions connected
> to it). Among other things, it enables things like
> distributed super
> computer clusters, distributed 3D
> virtualization/visualization and very
> large data transfer.  Parts of it will eventually become
> standard parts of
> the Internet but it's unlikely that any  of it will be
> taken over by the
> public; (partly because the public doesn't own the
> current Internet, but I
> think I understand what you were getting at), simply
> because they're will
> always be a need for a more private experimental playground
> that seeds
> discoveries to the more general public network
> infrastructure.
> I have no idea if Al Gore helped with the legislation for
> the Internet2
> initiative in any way... ;-)
> 
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:29 AM, ken barber
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> > you too are right peter, but i thought the government
> was involved too. and
> > i'll still predict that it will be taken over by
> the public in the future.
> >
> >
> -- 
> Peter Hunsberger
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Peter Hunsberger
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