Articles

• Accountability Arenas

  • "Disputation Arenas: Harnessing Conflict and Competition for Society's Benefit."
  • "A Parable about Openness: Followed by Some Thoughts on Privacy, Security, and Surveillance in the Information Age"
  • "The Other Culture War: Beleaguered Professionals vs. Disempowered Citizens"

  Government Reports

  • Sharon E. Gillett, Dr. William H. Lehr, Carlos A. Osorio (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Professor Marvin A. Sirbu (Carnegie Mellon University), "Measuring the Economic Impact of Broadband Deployment," National Technical Assistance, Training, Research, and Evaluation Project #99-07-13829, February 28, 2006.
  • GAO Report: "FCC Needs to Improve its Ability to Monitor and Determine the Extent of Competition in Dedicated Access Services"
  • coordination of federal cyber security research and development
  • GAO Report: "Information Security: Coordination of Federal Cyber Security Research and Development"
  • InfoSec Research Council Public IRC Documents
    
    InfoSec's list of hard problems
  • FCC Picks Ownership Studies; Copps Takes Aim
  • municipal provision of wireless internet

• Views from the other side

  • "A Dynamic Perspective on Government Broadband initiatives" (Reason, Nov 2006)
  • "Beware of Tech Geeks Bearing Gifts" (Reason, Dec 5, 2006)
  • "Muni Wi-Fi not just another utility" (Network World, Dec 6, 2006)

• Historical Perspectives

  • "Lessons for the Future Internet: Learning from the Past" (EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 41, no. 4 (July/August 2006))
  • Future of the Internet workshop, OECD Discussion Forum -- "If you Can't Measure It, You Can't Manage It"
  • The Internet economy: Towards a better future (OECD Observer, November 2007)

• International Activities

  • [CAnet - news] Open Networks Declaration - Stockholm November 8
  • [CAnet - news] Some innovative network solutions from New Zealand
  • Openreach by the BT Group
    
    "Our remit is to ensure that the entire UK telecommunications industry, including other parts of BT, has fair and equal access to the local access and backhaul networks."

• News: Policy-related and Other Academic Networks

  • "Benchmarking Broadband Prices in the OECD" (2004)
  • "Multiple Play: Pricing and Policy Trends" (2006)
  • "Internet traffic prioritization" (2007)
  • Rethinking Universal Service For a Next Generation Network Environment (2006)
  • Multiple Play: Pricing and Policy Trends
  • Rural Areas Left in Slow Lane of High-Speed Data Highway (The New York Times, Sep 28, 2006)
  • "The war of the wires" (From The Economist print edition, Jul 28, 2005)
    
    Alternate link
  • "America's Internet Disconnect" (Washington Post, Nov 8, 2006)
  • "FCC chair moves to break AT&T deadlock" (AP, Dec 2, 2006)
    
    Declaring an "impasse" on AT&T Inc.'s proposed acquisition of BellSouth Corp., Federal Communications Chairman Kevin Martin cleared the way Friday for a commissioner who had disqualified himself from the deliberations to break the deadlock.
    Martin asked the FCC's general counsel to "consider whether the government's interest would be served" by permitting Commissioner Robert McDowell to vote on the $81.6 billion deal, according to a letter sent to members of the congressional committees that oversee the agency.
  • "Internet2 Applauds New FCC Program To Build Advanced Internet Infrastructure Dedicated To Healthcare" (Internet2)
  • Internet2 news (Chicago Tribune)
  • the spectrum dividend: spectrum management issues
  • RESEARCH USE OF JANET TRAFFIC DATA
  • EU's data protection principles

• Open Access Infrastructure

  • J.H. Snider, "Reclaiming the Vast Wasteland: The Economic Case for Re-Allocating The Unused Spectrum (White Space) between TV Channels 2 and 51 to Unlicensed Service," New America Foundation Wireless Future Program, February 2006.
  • Wayne Parker, Robert West, John Borget, Kevin Garlick, Robert RIdge, Ph.D., Ryan Wood, Bruce Riddle, Mary DeLaMare-Schaefer, "Building a Digital Community: The Pioneering Story of iProvo," a response to "Spinning its Wheels," the iProvo Team, December 20, 2006.
  • [CAnet - news] Importance of carrier neutral peering facilities for small communities
  • Property, Commons, and the First Amendment: Towards a Core Common Infrastructure (White Paper for the Brennan Center for Justice) (March, 2001)

• Policy Rants

  • Saving the Net: How to Keep the Carriers from Flushing the Net Down the Tubes (Industry News, Nov 16, 2005)
  • Mr. Lynksis: Trespass Victim or Public Nusiance? [Wifi trespassing]

• Speeches

  • William F. Ballhaus, Jr., "The Most Important Lessons You Didn't Learn in Engineering School," Frontiers of Engineering, pp. 133-139, 2004.
  • Michael K. Powell, "Broadband Migration III: New Directions in Wireless Policy"
    
    Remarks of Michael K. Powell, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission, at the Silicon Flatirons Telecommunications Program
    

    Nevertheless, we are still living under a spectrum "management" regime that is 90 years old. It needs a hard look, and in my opinion, a new direction. Historically, I believe there have been four core assumptions underlying spectrum policy: (1) unregulated radio interference will lead to chaos; (2) spectrum is scarce; (3) government command and control of the scarce spectrum resource is the only way chaos can be avoided; and (4) the public interest centers on government choosing the highest and best use of the spectrum.

    Today's environment has strained these assumptions to the breaking point. Modern technology has fundamentally changed the nature and extent of spectrum use. So the real question is, how do we fundamentally alter our spectrum policy to adapt to this reality? The good news is that while the proliferation of technology strains the old paradigm, it is also technology that will ultimately free spectrum from its former shackles.

  • Michael Copps, "Network Neutrality, Broadband and Media Ownership"
    
    Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission
  • Brian Capouch, "Rural Voices: Indiana Farm Net"
  • Tom Vest, "The Wealth of Networks"
  • Eben Moglen, "Software and Community in the Early 21st Century"

• Measuring Trust

  • Scoping Study for the Measurement of Trust in the Online Environment

Blogs

• Bob Parsons, "The Add Drop Scheme: How millions of .COM names are used but never paid for." http://www.bobparsons.com/adddropscheme.html. Friday, April 21. 2006.
• According to the Best Available Data
• Lessig Blog
• Slashdot
• kuro5hin.org
• Scott Bradner: 'Net Insider'
• Computing Research Policy Blog
• Potaroo blog
• Telepocalypse
• CircleID
• IT Conversations
• Werblog
• Susan Crawford blog
• Dewayne-Net Radio Weblog
• CircleID: Featured Blogs
• VoIP and ENUM
• saschameinrath.com blogs
• FREAKONOMICS BLOG
• Telco 2.0
• EuroTelcoblog
• IMS Insider
• Benton Foundation - Headlines
• Information and Communications Policy
• Freedom to Tinker
• Wired in Washington
• Mark Cooper

Books

• Esme Vos and Mike Perkowski, "State of the Market Report," MuniWireless.com, October 2006.
• Art of the Long View, by Peter Schwartz
• The Pentagon's New Map, by Thomas Barnett
• A Blueprint for Action, by Thomas Barnett
• Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, by Lawrence Lessig
• The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, by Yochai Benkler
• The Transparent Society, by David Brin
• "Funding a Reovlution: Government Support for Computing Research", National Academy Press"
• "Network Science", National Academy of Science

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Newsletters

• The Cook Report Europe
• The Cook Report

Papers from the Academic Networking Community

• Andrew Odlyzko, "Telecom dogmas and spectrum allocations," Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota, June 20 2004.
• Hans Klein, "ICANN and Internet Governance: Leveraging Technical Coordination to Realize Global Public Policy," The Information Society, 18:193-207, Copyright 2002 Taylor and Francis.
• Timothy E. Nulty, "Financing Municipal Broadband: The Vermont Farmer Approach," IEEE-MTS Philadelphia, June 2003.
• Joe St. Sauver, Ph.D, "Spam Zombies And Inbound Flows To Compromised Customer Systems," MAAWG General Meeting, San Diego, March 1st, 2005.
• Kevin Werbach, "Supercommons: Toward a Unified Theory of Wireless Communication," Texas Law Review, v. 37:863, pp. 864-973, 2004.
  
  Exerpts
• Nick Feamster, "How to Lease the Internet in Your Spare Time"
  
  [Excellent paper on the issues facing the current Internet and possible solution through some of the concepts developed for GENI.]
• Nick Feamster, "Understanding the Network-Level Behavior of Spammers"
• Andrew Odlyzko's papers
• Yochai Benkler's writings
• Philip E. Agre, "Peer-to-Peer and the Promise of Internet Equality"
• Philip E. Agre, "Infrastructure and Institutional Change in the Networked University"
• Hans Klein, "ICANN-Reform_Establishing-the-Rule-of-Law"
• TPRC Programs and Papers Archive
  • Christian Sandvig on mapping wireless space
  • Examining the Wireless Commons
    
    A preliminary paper on the problems associated with quantifying use of wireless spectrum and the difficulty in determining the likelihood of a "tragedy of the commons."
• IP Network Configuration for Intradomain Traffic Engineering
• Entry Policy in Local Telecommunications" Iowa Utilities and Verizon
• the coming spectrum explosion -- a regulatory and business primer
• Hard Problems in INFOSEC Research
  
  Current Hard Problems in INFOSEC Research
  • Global-Scale Identity Management
  • Insider Threat
  • Availability of Time-Critical Systems
  • Building Scalable Secure Systems
  • Situational Understanding and Attack Attribution
  • Information Provenance
  • Security with Privacy
  • Enterprise-Level Security Metrics

Websites

• as-rank.caida.org
  
  This page presents CAIDA's degree-based and AS-relationship-based ranking of Autonomous Systems (AS)
• Internet Identifier Consumption
  
  This page presents the results of a CAIDA study focusing on the rate of consumption of Internet identifiers.
• www.internet2.edu
  • Abilene: abilene.internet2.edu
    
    the current backbone associated with I2
  • NewNet
    
    the new backbone infrastructure I2 is rolling out
  • Abilene NOC
• www.nlr.net
  • high level NLR services map
    
    (note: you can zoom in on specific nodes for more detailed information)
  • Researchers guide
  • Operations center
  • Technical maps and documentation
• www.fiberco.org
  
  Internet2 has established the National Research and Education Fiber Company (FiberCo) to support regional fiber optical networking initiatives dedicated to research and higher education.
• Democracy: Internet TV
  
  Democratic media projects
• Wi-FiHotSpotList.com
  
  A directory of public hotspots for finding Wi-Fi wireless Internet access network nodes
• Wireless Network Visualization Project
  
  (mapping and visualization wireless networks)
• WiFinder
  
  Wi-fi Hotspot directory
• The 2006 ResNet Security Practices and Policies Survey

NSF Proposals

• Toward Community-Oriented Network Measurement Infrastructure (CONMI)