Restarting the discussion

On Thu, 16 Jun 94 13:21:49 BST you said:
>
>> I volunteered to summerize the current status of which registries are
>> gov't funded, or university funded, etc.  Here are the only 6 countries
>> that answered:
>
>Not quite -- I explained the UK situation on this list a few weeks ago.
>In your characterisation, (a) -- government funded -- is probably the best
>approximation. However, it's the bit of 'government' that funds university
>wide-area networking, so maybe you count that as 'university'? I don't
>know, as your wording's ambiguous -- if 'university' means that a
>single university funds it then that's *not* the situation, but if
>'university' means that the funding comes from the academic networking
>activities then that would be the situation.

My definition of government funding is when a specific government
ministry or agency allocates money to either a university or a
consortium to "do networking" and part of the budget has been specificially
earmarked for handling registrations. The university of consortium might
be doing the work, but the one paying the bill is the government.

This is not the same as the government giving a university or
universities a few million ECUs to do E3/ATM networking.

>
>Bob Day

Hank