NREN for All:
Insurmountable Opportunity 

c.  1993 Jean Armour Polly
Manager of Network Development and User Training
NYSERNet, Inc.
jpolly@nysernet.org 

This was originally published in the February 1, 1993 issue of
Library Journal (volume 118, n.  2, pp 38-41).
It may be freely reprinted for educational use, please let me know if you
are redistributing it, I like to know if it's useful and where it's been.
Please do not sell it, and keep this message intact. 

When Senator Al Gore was evangelizing support for his visionary
National Research and Education Network bill, he often pointed to
the many benefits of a high-speed, multi-lane, multi-level data
superhighway.  Some of these included: 

-- collaborating research teams, physically distant from each other,