Todd added you should get credit up to the cost of implementing the standard. Peter asked how do you get from here to there. It would be demoralizing if a unit spent money on wiring but then is penalized when funding goes to those units that did not provide for themselves. Dave said the value of communication is diverse across the campus. Not everyone wants the same level of connectivity.
Budgets reflect institutional priorities.
Central funds can be spent to bring standards to departments that don t value it. Todd said that we have a lot of administrative systems in place, but some departments cannot access them because they lack connectivity to do it. Michael said there was no way to make it fair. So you have to take the institutional approach to this. This is in some ways the most democratic approach.