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  #  

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  #  

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  #  

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  #  

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  #  

Now connected.

Frank Field, Donna Wentworth are blogging away. Dave Winer is now in the building

11:21:27 AM  #