But the Interagency Kiosk Committee report recommends that a coalition of agencies set policy and procedures for operating the network, as well as establishing electronic development, standards and protocols to be used across the system. The Committee envisions an overall national support group or hub, as they call it, and five regional support hubs, which would primarily fill a coordinating role rather than a governing one. The regional hubs would work with state and local agencies, helping them to partner with each other, sharing new applications with other states in their region. The Committee report looked at building a 10,000 kiosk network and came up with four possible cost scenarios, based partly on which networking model is chosen and how fast the system is deployed. The state earns money for its system using three different types of charges.
Private funding is another possibility.
The Committee recognizes the private sector's ability to deliver cost-effective services in a competitive environment, but assumes that in such a venture, firms would expect to recover all costs plus a profit from later usage fees. Another form of private funding, not mentioned in the report, but practiced in a limited way by some states, involves cost-avoidance. That difference is enough to cover the Commission's cost for using the network. Today, the few small-scale systems in operation are a far cry from what many government visionaries believed would be possible by 1995. Recognizing the slow growth in government kiosk services, the Interagency Kiosk Committee cautions that a national kiosk network will not be created overnight.