Related Governmental Links

• The European Commission Directorate-General XIII - Telecommunications, Information Market and Exploitation of Research works on the development of the European Information Highway.
• National Science Foundation: provides support and grants for research in networking and communications. The relevant group is the Networking and Communications Research and Infrastructure (NCRI) Division in the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE).
• Federal Networking Council (FNC): FNC membership consists of representatives from 17 US Federal agencies (e.g., NASA, National Science Foundation, Dept. of Education, Department of Commerce's NTIA) whose programs utilize interconnected Internet networks. The Federal Networking Council's Advisory Committee has made recommendations on transition issues for the Internet including Resolution - New Internet Paradigm from May 23, 1995 and more specifically Resolution - Domain Name Service at their recent meeting on October 21-22, 1996 (the draft minutes of the meeting can be found here).
• The Federal Networking Council (FNC) is chartered by National Science and Technology Council's NSTC Committee on Information and Communications (CIC).
• Mike St. John, ARPA/FNC, presented a paper at Internet Names, Numbers, and Beyond: Issues in the Coordination, Privatization and Internationalization of the Internet held November 20, 1995 in Washington, D.C. on FNC's Role in the DNS Issues.
• Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
• National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA)
  • NTIA Information Superhighway Initiatives
• Working Group on Intellectual Property, Interoperability, and Standard of the U.S. Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy advises the US State Department on issues such as Domain Naming, Copyrights and Intellectual Property
• United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

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