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The Computer Board was dissolved on April 1, 1991 and became the Information Systems Committee (ISC) under the Universities Funding Council. Its primary role is to deal with networking and specialist information services. ISC assumed the funding responsibility for JANET and oversaw the creation of the new company, the '''JNT Association'''. On 1 April 1993, ISC became '''Joint Information Systems Committee''' ([[JISC]]). | The Computer Board was dissolved on April 1, 1991 and became the Information Systems Committee (ISC) under the Universities Funding Council. Its primary role is to deal with networking and specialist information services. ISC assumed the funding responsibility for JANET and oversaw the creation of the new company, the '''JNT Association'''. On 1 April 1993, ISC became '''Joint Information Systems Committee''' ([[JISC]]). | ||
JNT Association is a fully independent legal entity, publicly funded JISC | JNT Association is a fully independent legal entity, publicly by funded JISC which decided that JNT Association should not own trademarks including its own name – that could conceivably be sold elsewhere so it was officially traded as UKERNA. On June 7, 2007, UKERNA was changed to '''Janet(UK)'''. | ||
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