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To: SDR-SI who wrote (2518)	5/31/1998 6:14:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 11568

A year a lifetime? My answer would be 'no,' not without radical surgery and a major implant done somewhere. Their forte to date has been in their ability to deal in very tight spots with PTTs and global bureaucracies, in all regions of the world. This is a regimen that is demanding of extreme patience. It is not given, however, to the levels of urgency and near-neuroses that Internet Time connotes, however. I could be wrong about this. We'll have to wait and see, I suppose. In doing some homework that Steve G assigned to me, I came across an interesting passage that is on-topic with one of your previous observations concerning the secondary benefits of donating to the Internet 2 cause. Only this time it's LU up at bat: ""Dhillon [of LU] said that while Internet2 satisfies Lucent's public responsibility in the educational realm, it also gives the company a unique technical test bed for developing advanced network technology. "If you just leave it to the fragmented competitive marketplace," he said, "it's very hard to get things as advanced as this done."" Ah hem, case closed. Frank C.