We have invited Jeff Turner, Principal/CTO of Interstream, to share his perspective on the technical implications (vs. the philosophical digressions and debates) of net neutrality. He has gained this perspective over his many years as an executive at some of the top hardware firms that built the web (including Cisco and Novell).

The 2010 Intellectual Property Rights Index has been released. While it serves as a powerful reminder of the importance of property rights to economic growth and developing economies, new restrictions on digital business models may have an un-measured negative impact on property rights.

Chairman Genachowski “gets a little peeved when people suggests that he wants to regulate the Internet.” But Genachowski’s good intentions pave a road whose outcome is far less clear that net neutrality supporters like to believe.

Geoff Daily wrote something I think is worth highlighting. Noting (A) Christopher Yoo’s point about the benefits of smart networks (multicast, mobility, security, cloud computing, interactive video, adaptability) and the preference or letting innovation happen before presuming it must be regulated, and (B) the points made by the Open Internet Coalition’s Markham Erickson, who “supports the notion that networks being able to offer prioritized service may potentially be a net positive, but he cautions that” it could tilt investment to managed services, rather than “open bandwidth”.

Micro-payments are frequently raised as a potential funding mechanism for digital content. There are a number of important issues that any experimentation will have to address.

The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation hosted a forum today to discuss a paper by Milton Mueller: Info-Communism? Ownership and Freedom in the Digital Age.

Free Press’ opposition to TV Everywhere is at odds with reality.

We are moving from an Ownership Society to an Access Society. I think that trend continues for awhile. In a digital economy, with an abundance of content, access may trump ownership.

Jaron Lanier discusses important digital economy issues. The further we go into the digital economy, the greater the need to develop a better system of property rights for intellectual property. The information economy will not thrive where information must be free.

FCC Chairman Genachowski is being interviewed at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.. I must confess, while he’s being responsive to every question, he isn’t going very far beyond the basic things he has said for months.
He spends some time talking about making the FCC more open, responsive and transparent. The new Reboot.FCC.Gov is interesting.
However, discussing the convergence of the internet with devices, he says there is a tremendous desire to make sure devices are open for innovation and the FCC is looking at obstacles to convergence issues. …