As we all know things move really fast in the Internet World but not so if you are awaiting a report on it.

Congress started a $1 million study in 1998 and it’s finally been delivered some seven years later.
Initially the time line given for the study was nine months…I’m sure we couldn’t get away with these kind of delays in the our everyday world, but it seems that it doesn’t matter in this case.

Ted Bridis from AP continues the story…

Talk about turning in your homework late: The government just finished a report on Internet traffic that Congress requested seven years ago.
Lawmakers had demanded the $1 million study, ultimately called “Signposts in Cyberspace,” under a 1998 law. Passed almost at the dawn of what became the Internet boom, the law required the Commerce Department to seek a study about Web addresses and trademarks by the National Research Council and wrap up the report within nine months.
The council published its findings Thursday, two presidential administrations later and years after the implosion of what had been a bustling Internet economy.
“Time got extended,” said Charles Brownstein, director of the research council’s computer science and telecommunications board.

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