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

[Karl Auerbach]

> > 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.)
 
> 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.

That is very true, there was (and is) no governmental obligation to
perform these registration duties.

                --karl--