NMIS Project Final Report 1993 - 1997

4.4 Future Directions in Policy and Standards

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The standards and policy oriented activities of the NMIS Project encouraged the national deployment of commercial services and public networked information. In addition, the working relationship among technology and policy researchers at MIT and CMU continues to support decision-making by NSF program managers, government agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense, corporate partners, and colleagues at educational institutions. More generally, the success of efforts like the component of NMIS which collaborated in the Header/Descriptor for Multimedia Project can serve as an example of how to influence standards and policy in a productive way in the future.


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