Statement by the National Science Foundation
WASHINGTON, May 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by NSF
spokeswoman Beth Gaston:
The National Science Foundation is pleased that Congress has enacted, and
the President has signed, a bill which enables the National Science Foundation
(NSF) to use money collected in the domain name Internet Intellectual
Infrastructure Fund to support Internet-related activities. The money, which
totals approximately $60 million, will allow the NSF to support a large number
of Next Generation Internet and related networking projects, including:
support of connections to the NSF's very high performance Backbone Network
Service (vBNS), research to develop applications that use high performance
networking, and research into improving networking technology.
SOURCE National Science Foundation
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