It is 10 pm and Erin is searching t...

It is 10 pm and Erin is searching the library database from her computer for a work about early New England history. Finding the title she wants, Erin lays a hold on the part noting that she will pick it up tomorrow after work. In another part of the city, Steve is searching the city council agenda for an upcoming zoning item for a like reason he can attend the public hearing. He searches another database for the city's zoning digests for research prior to the meeting. the two are on-line using DoverNet.

Imagine a web of information and services available to each household and business in towns, cities and states across the nation. For many, imagination is becoming reality as the National Information infrastructure (NII), the virtual networked highway that will eventually tighten across the nation, comes to their desktops.

In Dover, NH a community of 26000 a network for