Re: [IFWP] Re: Hilights from today's hearing

[Diane Cabell]

Karl Auerbach wrote:

> Anyway, there are merits on both sides of the see-saw.  (I still see the
> balance as being that NSI was merely admistering a government database.
> But its a balance that apparently others who were close to the situation
> at the time of the formation of the Cooperative Agreement see otherwise.)
>
>                 --karl--

Another interesting research issue is whether it was a government asset in the first
place.  It wasn't exclusively for the benefit of the government since plenty of
non-governmental parties were also using it.  Even if you take the approach that it
was an administrative task, and not research, it isn't clear that the government ever
had any obligation to perform the task in the first place.

Diane Cabell
http://www.mama-tech.com
Fausett, Gaeta & Lund, LLP
Boston, MA