President Bush has signed a new Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) policy for the United States. Excerpt from the December 15 press release of the U.S. GPS Industry Council: 'The policy sets forth a forward- looking framework for the management of GPS and its augmentations. As the second Presidential statement in less than a decade, the PNT policy demonstrates U.S. foresight in shaping the global environment to meet the dynamic needs of GPS users worldwide. The new policy updates the foundation laid by the 1996 Presidential Decision Directive (PDD) on GPS. It maintains an unambiguous U.S. commitment to the essential principles of open access, free of direct user fees, for civilian users worldwide.' (PS: OA for GPS data for civilian uses, and interoperability with other countries' PNT services, are the good news. For a more critical review of the new policy, focusing on the failure to reform funding and management of the GPS system, see Dee Ann Divis, Little change in GPS on horizon, United Press International, December 20, 2004.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/21/2004 07:35:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
