New NII docs online at EFF

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

Posted-Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 23:33:31 -0400
From: Stanton McCandlish <mech@eff.org>


There's been a flurry of document-releasing recently at the Information
Infrastructure Task Force, the National Performance Review, the National
Telecommunications and Information Administration, and the Patent &
Trademark Office.  EFF is archiving many of the more important documents,
including several time-sensitive notices of inquiry, annoucements of
conferences, and requests for comments, all of which YOU can participate in.


How much of this is hype and how much of this deserves serious attention
is a good question, but one might wish to keep in mind that the more
agencies talk about regulating NII issues at the same time they are talking
about the NII being more like (or just plain being) the Internet, the
closer they are to talking about regulating the Internet outright.  Speak
up now or forever hold thy peace.  There are several Requests for Comment
included in here, and you owe it to yourself to submit clear and direct
comments letting regulators know what you think needs to be done or not done.






Available from:


ftp.eff.org, /pub/EFF/Policy/OP/
gopher.eff.org, 1/EFF/Policy/OP
http://www.eff.org/pub/EFF/Policy/OP/


[NOTE: Due to large number of IITF docs, IITF material maybe moved to
a Gov_docs subdirectory of .../OP - if you find that the files aren't there,
just append Gov_docs to the paths above.  This move is not imminent, but
probably eventual.]






cat_iitf.charter - Charter of the IITF Committee on Applications and Tech.


fed_med_edu_agri_nii_funding.notices - pile of Federal govt. funding mechan-
                                       ism and grant notices re: agricultur-
                                       al telecom, telemedicine, and distance
                                       learning.


gii_iitf.note - Short IITF document on the Global Information Infrastructure.
                Maybe some less parochial memes are catching on?


hiawg_iitf.charter - Charter of the IITF Health Information and Applications
                     Working Group


iitf.faq - factsheet on IITF, what it is, and what it does.


iitf_0912.report - monthly IITF Committee Report for Sept. 1994


iitf_goals_nii.paper - Selection of IITF papers, "The Information Infrastruc-
                       ture: Reaching Society's Goals".


nii_access_051394_ntia_cpuc_hearing.summary - Summary of NTIA and Calif. Pub.
                                              Utility Commission hearing
                                              on open access and the NII


nii_access_051394_ntia_cpuc_hearing.transcript - transcript of above hearing


nii_prinicples_progress.report - Clinton Administration "NII Progress Report"
                                 and "NII Principles and Actions: A Checklist
                                 of Progress" report, 93-94.
                                 See also WWW version at:
                                 gopher://www.arpa.mil:80/0/NII_Report_94.html


nist_nii_framework.report - NIST report, "Framework for NII Services".
                            See http://www.eff.org/papers/otherpapers.html
                            for WWW version with graphics.


npr_it_082294.report - NPR report, "Reengineering Through Information
                       Technology"


ntia_iitf_nii_94_hearings.report - NTIA/IITF summary of 1994 hearings
                                   on NII, open access and universal service.
                                   Subtitled "America Speaks Out", natch.


ntia_iitf_uniserv_conf.announce - Announcement of NTIA/IITF virtual
                                  conference on universal service and the
                                  NII.  * TIME SENSITIVE - DEADLINE: OCT. 14,
                                 1994 *


ntia_uniserv_access.noi - NTIA Notice of Inquiry on NII universal service
                          & open access issues.  * TIME SENSITIVE - DEADLINE:
                          DEC. 14, 1994


omb_gils.notice - OMB bulletin on establishment of a Government Information
                  Locator Service (GILS)


pto_iitf_nii_security.rfc - Request for Comments and Notice of Hearing (PTO
                            and IITF) on Commercial Security in the NII.
                            * TIME SENSITIVE - DEADLINE: OCT. 13, 1994 *


pto_intprop_extension.rfc - Extenstion to deadline for comments submitted
                            in response to PTO's Request for Comments on
                            draft report on the NII and Intellectual Property
                            Rights. * TIME SENSITIVE - DEADLINE: OCT. 21,
                            1994 *


putting_ii_to_work_iitf.report - IITF report: "Putting Information
                                 Infrastructure to Work"


putting_ii_to_work_iitf.comments - public comments from a variety of
                                   individuals and organizations on the
                                   above report


s1822_doc_irving_092094.testimony - Dept. of Commerce Asst. Secy. Larry
                                    Irving's Sept. 20 1994 US Senate testimony
                                    before the Antitrust, Monopolies and Bus-
                                    iness Rights Subcommittee of the Judiciary
                                    on S. 1822, the would-be Communications
                                    Act of 1994 (Senate companion to the
                                    Markey bill, HR. 3636, which implemented
                                    most of EFF's Open Platform NII
                                    provisions)


satel_gii_doc_irving_hr_072894.testimony - Dept. of Commerce's Larry Irving
                                           testimony to House of Rep. on
                                           satellite-based technologies and
                                           the GII


tpwg_cat_iitf.charter - Charter of the Technology Policy Working Group of
                        the Committee on Applications and Technology of IITF



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