National Net '88

FCCSET委员会关于国家高性能计算计划的报告于1987年11月20日提交给美国国会，尽管网络部分的基本内容早在初夏就已广为人知。该报告建议建立一个国家数据网络，以三层方式支持科学研究和学术活动，协调和扩展现有的支持研究的联邦机构网络，同时开展研究、开发、以及“千兆网络”的试点部署。要成功地执行如此庞大的项目，最广泛意义上的社区支持是必要的。在这份提案中，NYSERNET公司的Richard Mandelbaum提议与EDUCOM合作召开一次大型规划会议，规划网络设计、建设和使用的各个方面，例如：*适当的访问级别，以及与商用X.25网络的关系；* SURANET或NYSERNET是否适合作为国家网络的样板；*产业参与模式；资金机制，包括联邦政府、州和地方政府以及最终用户之间的资金分配。与会者包括大学校长和教务长；行业代表，特别是电信公司、金融机构和有大量研发投资的公司；以及来自国家实验室、公用事业委员会、州校董会和立法委员会的政府官员。

The FCCSET Committee report on a National High-Performance Computing Initiative was delivered to the United States Congress on November 20, 1987, although the basic content of the section on Networking had been widely known since early summer. The report recommends creation of a national data network to support scientific research and scholarly activities in a three-tiered approach that coordinates and expands existing networks of the Federal Agencies that support research, while carrying out the research, development, and pilot deployment of the "gigabit network". Community support, in the broadest sense, will be needed to carry out so large a project successfully. In this proposal, Richard Mandelbaum of NYSERNET, Inc. proposes to hold a large- scale planning conference with collaboration from EDUCOM, to plan various aspects of design, construction, and use of the network including, for example: * appropriate level of access,and relationship to commercial X.25 networks; * suitability of SURANET or NYSERNET as a model for a national net; * models of industrial participation; and * funding mechanisms, including the partition of funding among the Federal government, state and local governments, and end-users. Participants will include university presidents and provosts; representatives of industry, especially telecommunication companies, financial institutions, and firms with large R & D investments; and government officials from national laboratories, public utility commissions, state boards of regents, and legislative committees.