In Are Your Bits Worn Out?, author Todd Adelmann discusses the problems inherent within the age old hardware-software war and the consumer that is caught in the middle.

Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law
University of Colorado School of Law
Innovations In The Internet’s Architecture That Challenge The Status Quo
Christopher S. Yoo
2010
Yoo’s latest article discusses how the Internet has changed and developed in ways that are currently being ignored by policymakers and proponents of network neutrality. He believes these changes have occurred in order for Internet service providers to “reduce cost, manage congestion and maintain quality of service.” He breaks the changes down into three parts:

Current changes due to the early Internet’s design and the business relationships inherent in …

William Kovacic’s latest paper discusses the role of the Federal Trade Commission and the development of Internet policy. He portrays the FTC as an organization with a long role and storied role in directing Internet development, with an emphasis on consumer protection, among other areas.

Often the discussion surrounding Internet usage caps also revolves around some sort of transparency. Generally speaking, no matter what ones stance on usage caps is, all can agree that being transparent about monthly bandwidth use should be apart of a subscribers user account with their ISP. Inlate 2009 Comcast answered this call by launching their Usage Meter service in Portland, Oregon.

Randolph J. May writes that the health care public option and what he calls the “Internet public option” share similar threads.

The Free State Foundation
Annual Winter Telecom Policy Conference
Panel: The FCC’s Broadband Plan: The Good, The Bad, and the Just So-So?
January 29, 2010
Moderator Deborah Taylor Tate, an adjunct senior fellow at the foundation and a former FCC commissioner, joined several panelists to discuss the upcoming FCC broadband plan, which is due to be released March 17. The panel included:
Stuart Benjamin and Paul de Sa of the FCC;

Jeffrey Campbell, the senior director of technology and trade policy for Cisco Systems; “The thing about the National Broadband Plan that is really important for …

The American Consumer Institute
Center for Citizen Research
Innovation and National Broadband Policies: Facts, Fiction and Unanswered Questions
March 2, 2010
Larry F. Darby
Joeseph P. Fuhr

Two sources, here and here, have now confirmed some blurbs seen on Twitter the last few days that March’s upcoming Broadband Plan will include the proposition of a website called Video.gov.

The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation
Going Mobile: Technology and Policy Issues in the Mobile Internet
Richard Bennett
March 2, 2010

Digital Nation: 21st Century America’s Progress Toward Universal Broadband Internet Access
An National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) Research Preview
February 2010