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From: schoff@uu.psi.com (Martin Schoffstall)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,sci.astro
Subject: Re: Will there be a Great Unified Net?
Message-ID: <1990May28.145745.16332@uu.psi.com>
Date: 28 May 90 14:57:45 GMT
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Reply-To: schoff@uu.psi.com (Martin Schoffstall)
Organization: Performance Systems International, Inc.
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>I am aware of the NYSERnet/PSI pilot project, and am watching it
>closely. I am on the "QUIPU" mailing list [*], so you know I am
>seriously interested in X.500.  I, wearing my hat as networking
>coordinator for NRAO, judge that your project is still somewhat a beta
>trial, and that NRAO's role is to be on the cutting edge of astronomy
>research, not to be on the cutting edge of CS research, and therefore
>I wait and watch.  I am impressed by what I hear of your pilot, and my
>present guess is that I might recommend that we participate in a year
>or so.
>

While you are correct that this is CS research issue, the customers
of NYSERNet/PSINet have had the possability to opt for simply handing
us the data and letting us take care of the hard parts.  We're hoping
sometime this year to go from a pilot to service status (at least
for our customers), this is going to be a major point of discussion
at the June meeting of PSITech (our technical users group).

Marty