[IFWP] Access to the database

[Weisberg]

Diane Cabell wrote:

> Another interesting research issue is whether it was a government asset in the first
> place.  It wasn't exclusively for the benefit of the government since plenty of
> non-governmental parties were also using it.  Even if you take the approach that it
> was an administrative task, and not research, it isn't clear that the government ever
> had any obligation to perform the task in the first place.
>

What would be the legal significance of a finding either way?  Are you considering
whether the community was intended as the "third party beneficiary" of the Cooperative
Agreement as regards access to the data?