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The National Research and Education Network (NREN) is a five-year
project approved by Congress in the Fall of 1991. It's intended to
create a national electronic "super-highway." The NREN will be 50
times faster than the fastest available networks (at the time of this
writing). Proponents of the NREN claim it will be possible to
transfer the equivalent of the entire text of the Encyclopedia
Britannica in one second. Further information, including the original
text of the bill presented by Senator Al Gore (D--TN), is available
through anonymous FTP to nis.nsf.net, in the directory
`nsfnet'. In addition, Vint Cerf wrote on the then-proposed NREN
in RFC-1167, Thoughts on the National Research and Education
Network. See section Requests for Comments for information on obtaining RFCs.
A mailing list, `nren-discuss@uu.psi.com', is available for discussion of the NREN; write to `nren-discuss-request@uu.psi.com' to be added.
"To talk in publick, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire, and to answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar." Samuel Johnson Chapter VIII The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
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