Don’t Hide your Work in Postscript!

Encouragement of active links with related efforts outside the UK and careful review of Intellectual Property issues and tradeoff between cooperative open dissemination and protection of investment.
The UK activities would benefit from active collaboration with related international efforts such as the NHSE(National High Performance Software Exchange) and supercomputer centres in the US.
Currently the UK projects seem unclear as to whether to encourage broad international dissemination of their work or whether to protect the JISC investment by making electronic access to their material inconvenient or impossible.
My prejudice is that in rapidly changing fields, one benefits from open and indeed pro-active dissemination using interactive HTML and not archival ftp/postscript. However at least a consistent corporate set of ground rules should be agreed.