Now I will agree that there is plenty to be worried about. But I will flat state that none of it is in the points of the Boucher bill that the Chronicle covers. In part because Mr Tauke, who has testified twice before Boucher this year, is a very poor witness who knows very little about the Internet, NSFnet or regionals.
Lets look at the oral transcript, the raw stenograhic minutes.
I must say that I have heard that he has modified these opinions to some extent. Problem is that no one has checked and now everyone is saying HR1757 is going to remove all our subsidies. Lets see what HR1757 actually says. So despite the rumors reported by the Chronicle, HR1757 does NOT remove government funds from the NSFnet backbone, and regular operational parts of the network. Gordon, it appears that it is your own conclusions, which are inaccurate.