Silicon Flatirons, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, and Public Knowledge today are hosting a forum in Washington titled “An FCC for the Internet Age: Reform and Standard-Setting.” The second panel focuses on regulatory reforms, standard-setting and mediating institutions. This entry includes live coverage of the panel.

Silicon Flatirons, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, and Public Knowledge today are hosting a forum in Washington titled “An FCC for the Internet Age: Reform and Standard-Setting.” The first panel focuses on the present and future of FCC reform. This entry includes live coverage of the panel.

Silicon Flatirons, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, and Public Knowledge today are hosting a forum in Washington titled “An FCC for the Internet Age: Reform and Standard-Setting.” Digital Society will be tweeting and blogging live from the event. Follow us on Twitter at @DigiSociety, and stay tuned to the blog for updates from the conference.

A number of interesting new articles and forums deal with our exaflood theme of the past few years. “Striving to Map the Shape-Shifting Net” – by John Markoff – The New York Times – March 2, 2010 “Data, data, everywhere” – The Economist – Special Report on Managing Information – February 25, 2010 “Managing the Exaflood” – [...]

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).

Free Press is asking the FCC to consider a number of changes to the NPRM Net Neutrality regulations which they claim will “promote investment”. But once we examine their proposal in detail, we find that it will produce just the opposite and devastate the U.S. economy.

John Markoff of the New York Times has penned an interesting piece on the changing nature and decentralization of the Internet.  It reiterates the point I made in yesterday’s post on The fundamental shift to Internet video delivery which is the driving technical and economic force behind these profound changes to the Internet.  Markoff talked [...]

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

One of the standard arguments for government regulation in the Internet space is that “net neutrality” rules are not new. Two advocates of the policy resurrected that argument this week at an event. But the head of NTIA didn’t get the memo. He contradicted that talking point two days later.

Demystifying Net Neutrality
Webinar Presented by The Diffusion Group and VideoNuze
Will Richmond, VideoNuze; Collin Dixon, The Diffusion Group; Barbara Esbin, Progress & Freedom Foundation; Chris Riley, Free Press
February 4, 2010