The Renraku System 80 is essentially a network server, an immense bank of data archives. It provides for term-to-term interfaces between the Metascience Group’s users and network-wide operations, primarily administrative, such as Resource Consumption Control. Unfortunately, the RCC software’s glitchy. It misses things if the entries into the science databases aren’t made just so. There are protocols and formats for data entry, but they aren’t foolproof, and scientists researching blood plasma, for example, do not necessarily make good data-entry clerks. The various sections of the Metascience Group have administrative aides who should look after chores like that, but most of the aides are science-people with science-oriented aspirations, rather than people with specializations in computers or administration.