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Re: SUO: RE: RE: Program wants to work with SUO documents




> For what it's worth, I feel it is simply silly to refuse to work with
>  an organization that will help us test the real-world practicality 
> of our work.

well, yes, that is what I was thinking the SUO public-face
reaction was. Thanks for corroborating.

I'll refrain from any all too easy comments on your "real-world
practicality".

> Also, I think it is unfair to visit "sins of the father" upon small 
> technology-development departments within the US DoD.

When I've worked in the States I have also been on DoD contracts;
but only ones that had full clearance of everything, no
restrictions on publication, no restriction on access of
results, no determination of content or of approach/direction,
and all of the other things mentioned in Stefano
Borgo's mail. These issues do not yet appear to have been
settled satisfactorily in the "discussion" so far.

> It is has been my experience that it is DoD departments like this
> that are often the only organizations willing to spend actual money
> and effort on "risky" new technology like the SUO and experiment with
> it.  Why ! would we want to refuse such help?

Well, I'll leave you to work that one out yourself if you haven't
got round to the issues yet.

John B.