TOP TEN REASONS WHY WHITE HOUSE STAFF LIKE THE INTERNET

This list provided by Tom Kalil, the David Letterman of the Clinton/Gore administration. Kalil gave the closing keynote at INET'94/JENC5 in Prague on Friday, June 17, and included this list in his talk about NII efforts in the United States.

10:

Surfing the Web is more fun than going to meetings.

9:

Even reading old RFCs is more fun than going to meetings.

8:

On the Internet, no one knows you're a bureaucrat.

7:

It's how we get our daily marching orders from Vint Cerf, Tony Rutkowski, and Dave Farber.

6:

It's hard to write your X.400 address on a cocktail napkin.

5:

We get all that great electronic fan mail on the Clipper Chip.

4:

We have access to the Top Secret Air Force server with cool gifs of UFOs and little green men.

3:

We're still hoping to get on Carl Malamud's "Geek of the Week."

2:

We love getting flamed by rabid libertarians on "com-priv."

1:

We can send e-mail FROM president@whitehouse.gov.