Includes marketing strategy for the Merit/NSFNET endeavor; a brochure from the John von Neumann Supercomputer Center in Princeton, New Jersey; report Toward a National Research Network by the National Research Network Review Committee, Computer Science and Technology Board, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources, and the National Research Council; informal reports on the projects status, meetings, the National Research and Education Network (NREN) and research interagency backbone; executive committee agendas and minutes; news wire articles; Committee on Institutional Cooperation CICNet DS- 1 Communication Lines Request for Quotation; call for white paper on very high speed networking; report Internetworking: A National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) Perspective by Merit; clippings; a press release regarding the reduction of MCI's T-1 network; several issues of Link Letter newsletter; a packet for the executive committee; a quarterly report; meeting agendas and notices, press clippings, NSFNET report High-Speed Computer Networking for Research and Education, electronic mail about SURAnet meetings, NEARNet, and FarNET testimony to the U.S. House Science Subcommittee; FARNET recommendations to the National Science Foundation; Advanced Network & Services, Inc. (ANS) network status report ANSNET/NSFNET Backbone Engineering Report; and records regarding the construction of a national computer network for NSF by MCI, IBM, the University of Michigan, and its affiliate, Merit, Inc.