Thursday, May 13, 2004

Internet Governance - Whither? 3:30 PM Zittrain and Fisher teamed to discuss domain names, how they have arrived, who manages them, and whether the current governance structure really matters.  Almost seems like much ado about nothing.  Read More Zittrain says -- maybe other entities are already governing the Internet in a routine way -- so Internet governance is nearly as foggy a role as one can describe.  5:28:43 PM    comment []

Logical Layer - policy considerations If you extend the e2e nature of the internet into a new wireless scheme (OWL) - then who controls - who volunteers to allow devices to reside in their domain - is no control so good as to sacrifice ability to filter against harmful things...  these are issues explored.  More to read 3:12:36 PM    comment []

Bloggers surround Jay McCarthy just emailed a note telling me he's blogging behind me... Ah Ha!  And Will Richardson is behind me (ok, so I'm on the front row)... (Ok, Anne -- Will and I talked a ton at lunch today - mostly about you.  And, Winer is in the back discussing the philosophy of semantic web). I'll throw up a blogroll later today. 12:30:51 PM    comment []

Interoperability via engineering - not regulation Yochai mentioned a company called PACKETHOP and the Golden Gate Safety Network which seems to be achieving interoperability among public safety communication systems GGSN Mission Develop a Regional Public Safety Communications plan that details the use of existing and new communications systems that will support a coordinated, interoperable, multi-disciplined response from local, state and federal agencies in support of day-to-day operations and incidents. This effort would set the radio companies on end -- for instance -- to build a uniform 800 mhz network in Georgia would cost $300 million - easily (oops - Nextel is trying to get FCC to let them have that spectrum which if successful means we have to build again at 1.9 mhz - so add more money to that figure). 12:25:43 PM    comment []

Physical Layer 11:00 am Yochai Benkler   Yochai discusses the analysis of competitiveness in the arena of delivering advanced networked services to the home and he discusses municipal fiber to the home.   Obviously, the failure of Marietta's Fibernet, LaGrange's Cable Franchise agreement (no one wants to pay now that it is no longer free) and the recent passage of SB 445 - places this option out of reach for Georgians.   And, Yochai points out how the incumbent providers are successfully lobbying state legislatures to prevent the municipal solution from occurring.   To read more... 11:53:07 AM    comment []

Regulating Porn  [ May 13,2004 9:00 am]   Fisher intros the program first   6 Years ago – first session/experimental/intense   From the beginning, participation was global.   6 months later – Singapore – with core from that part of the world   2003 – Rio – some Latin American participation   Then – Stanford   Now, back to Cambridge   Holes are in Africa, Greenland and Antartica (I ain’t going there!)   Lecturers   Yochai Benkler William Fisher Jerry Kang, UCLA and Visiting Professor of Law Lawrence Lessig Charles Nesson John Palfrey Jonathan Zittrain   All lectures being videotaped…   Lectures available in DVD form sent ahead to compress this conference into 3 days.   So, Lessig and Zittrain are cuing up on Regulation of pornography   Their banter make learning easy...  Read More 11:24:03 AM    comment []

Now connected. Frank Field, Donna Wentworth are blogging away. Dave Winer is now in the building 11:21:27 AM    comment []

Sun rises early here... 5:00 am sunrise...  No wonder there are so many wise people here... 6:06:42 AM    comment []