The Policy Committee of Taiwan's advanced research network unanimously endorsed the renaming of TANet/I2 to "TANet2." TANet2 is funded by the National Science Council, under which the NCHC is charged with its planning and deployment. TANet, by birth, is a separate network. It is funded and managed by the Department of Education. Its acronym stands for Taiwan Academic Network, which was first connected to the Internet at Princeton, New Jersey in 1991. In the last two years, TANet has expanded its services enormously to include high schools and elementary schools. TANet2, by contrast, will continue to serve the research community. Hence, TANet and TANet2 will remain to be separate networks and the two government agencies will continue to pool financial resources in co-funding the networks.

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