thomas@mvac23.uucp (Thomas Lapp) (09/08/89)
I received a flyer the other day which came from the Center for Advanced
Telecommunications (CAT) announcing a joint venture between them and the
NTIS (National Technical Information Service).
In many cases, various government groups contract out a report on this or
that topic. Once they get the report, it is done with and kept in a
repository. What CAT will do is read through all the NTIS reports and
select the ones that look interesting. Then they publish a flyer with
descriptions of these reports including ordering info. Thus, they screen
the 60 000/year technical reports and "inform us of the best of this work
in this area of specialization" [from the flyer itself-tll].
If others are interested in receiving this flyer or to be put on the list,
there is information at the end of this article.
In the August issue (Number 1), some of the topics include:
USER-ORIENTED PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF DATA COMMUNICATION SERVICES:
MEASUREMENT, DESIGN, CONDUCT, AND RESULTS, 1988.
IMPACT OF TELEPHONE DEREGULATION ON SMALL BUSINESS, Cornell Consulting
Group, Falls Church, VA, 1988. Sponsor: Small Business Administration.
NETWORKS, SIGNALLING AND SWITCHING FOR POST-DIVESTITURE ENVIRONMENT,
National Telecommunications and Information Administration, (NTIA), 1986.
VOICEBAND QUALITY-OF-SERVICE ISSUES IN THE POST DIVESTITURE ENVIRONMENT,
National Telecommunications and Information Administration, 1985.
CONSIDERATIONS IN THE DESIGN OF CCS NETWORKS FOR CCITT SIGNALLING SYSTEM
#7, University of Colorado Master's Thesis, 1986.
DIVESTITURE OF AT&T AND THE SEPERATE SUBSIDIARY REQUIREMENT, Federal
Communications Commission, 1984.
TELEPHONE COMPETITION AND REGULATION: A SURVEY OF THE STATES, NTIA, 1986
There were about 12 topics listed in all. All documents described in the
issue can be purchased from NTIS, 8:30-17:30 Eastern time at (703) 487-
4648. According to the order form, credit cards are accepted.
Also, you may request addition to the mailing list by sending same to:
Janet Geffner
NTIS
207 Forbes
Springfield, VA 22161
If you want more info on the titles in this flyer, and ordering prices and
numbers, you may send mail to me.
(Permission to copy this info inferred from the sentence: Feel free to make
your colleagues aware of this service and how they can obtain their own
copies of the [flyer].)
- tom
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