FIRP Update

Presented by Milo Medin/NASA Ames Research Center

Biography:  Milo Medin is the Chief of the Wide Area Network Services
Branch, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.  He has
been an active participant in the Internet and IETF for almost 10 years,
and is responsible for (among other things) management of the NASA
Science Internet, which is a large multiprotocol network serving
researchers and scientists around the world.


Milo Medin, along with eight other US Federal staff, comprise the
Federal Internetworking Requirements Panel, which has been examining the
standards making process in the US Federal Government.  This report
provides an update on the panel's activities and direction.