In their contribution to the New Years festivities, I've just recieved an announcement from NSF that the National Science Board has now issued a report (dated December 14, 2011) from their Task Force on Data Policies titiled "Digital Research Data Sharing and Management"  and is calling for comments, with a due date of January 10, 2012.

The call for comments is here

http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=122702&WT.mc_id=USNSF_62&WT.mc_ev=click

and it includes (at least as of December 31, 2011) a bad pointer ot the report; changing this to

http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/publications/2011/nsb1124.pdf

worked for me.

Best Wishes for the New Year.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI