IP: Today we are surprised!

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>To: Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
>cc: Hiromichi HASHIZUME <has@nii.ac.jp>
>
>From: Hiromichi HASHIZUME <has@nii.ac.jp>
>
>Today we are surprised!  The evening edition of Asahi newspaper
>ran an article including your comment with your photo.  Please
>see:
>
>   http://webserv.rd.nacsis.ac.jp/~has/dave.gif
>
>The title of the article is:
>
>"The next generation Internet -- 2,  Change of the cast in the
>play,  From universities to industry."
>
>Your comment is in the bottom two columns of the article, following
>the preceeding text of a brief history of the Internet and the
>Internet 2 project.
>
>.... An executive of a big company which participates in the
>Internet 2 project gave us a comment:  "We love this project,
>as we can test a product in it, whenever we want."  At the
>same time, however, he said "frankly speaking, what we are interested
>in most is not the project itself, but the good researchers we can
>recruit."
>
>The FCC chief engineer Mr. David Farber said, "Industries are
>increasing investment to the Internet year by year for the
>survival.  Universities cannot match the industries if they
>keep on the way they did before.  There will be little hope
>for the Internet 2 project -- it will not be able to catch up
>the industries."
>
>   .... a comment of Jun Murai follows, "virtually no universities
>        (in the US) actually do Internet 2 research" ....
>   .... majority members of ISOC belong to large companies ....
>
>"But the Internet industries are just extending what we developed
>  in the universities before.  They only have taken over the result,"
>says Mr. Farber.  "As long as they keep the latest development
>information open, it is very healthy condition."