Comment from Harvey Newman

[200.432, 200.454, 200.461, 200.206, 200.450] To Whom it May Concern: I am a professor of physics and an expert in high energy physics and global distributed systems for data intensive sciences. I am writing in my personal capacity to oppose the proposed revisions to sections 200.432, 200.454, 200.461, 200.206, and 200.450 that would restrict typical professional expenses, curtail the communication of scientific results, and place excessive scrutiny on the activities of scientists. My membership in the American Physical Society as a Fellow, in the IEEE as a Senior Member, and the AAAS, have been important pathways to present and share the results of my own research with the science and engineering communities, learn of the latest scientific and technological breakthroughs, and continue to hone my skills and ability to make new discoveries, as well as contribute to these breakthroughs through my collaborations with teams both nationwide and worldwide. The ability to be able to attend both large conferences and smaller focused technical meetings is essential to maintain and further develop my knowledge and skills as a leader in both high energy physics and in multiple areas of information technology supporting research in data intensive science. The progressive development of ever-better methods of finding rare and/or subtle signals in massive datasets relies on both learning and in-depth reviews of the scientific record. This is equally true of new knowledge and breakthroughs in technologies and engineering, as has been evident throughout my own decades long career and my leading contributions to science and engineering spanning multiple disciplines. I have been involved, contributed to, or led more than 1000 significant papers over the last 60 years. Some of these include the discovery of the gluon which carries the strong force that binds nuclei, the discovery of the fourth type of quarks and the Higgs boson. I also have created new paradigms for data analysis by international collaborations spanning national and intercontinental distances, and have established more than a dozen records for the highest data rates over the last 30 years across several technology generations. Restricting publications as proposed would damage scientific and engineering progress across many disciplines, and by extension slow and ultimately damage our nation's progress and its ability to sustain its position of world leadership.