This article from today’s Chronicle of Higher Education announces plans for the two largest, university based networks to merge. The merger plan is a response to a report by 11 networking experts, commissioned jointly by the groups. That report states:

“We believe and recommend that NLR and Internet2 should combine their efforts. The goal, we believe, must be a single national entity responsible for the collective high-performance production-networking and experimental-networking needs of higher education and the larger research community.”

Of course, the realities of a merger might be more complicated. As the article states, “leaders of both organizations warned that merger talks could founder over financial and bureaucratic issues. ”

Note: The Chronicle often requires a password to get at articles. Anyone who wants to see this article, but can’t get to it, just leave a comment and I’ll pass it along.

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