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- The Federal
Task Force on Broadband Deployment has some great proposals for open
third-party access to any new government- subsidized networks.
- The Ca*Net3 site features a great
deal of interest on customer-owned fiber networks and other nethead
propaganda. Try their
library.
- Canadian
Internet Registration Authority
- CAIP -- Canadian Association of
Internet Providers
- Content
Related Liability Study The Department of Industry's 1997 legal study of the liabilities of
ISP's (Search on Strategis site under "Racicot" if they move
it).
- Principles
of Electronic Commerce, from the Uniform Law Conference of Canada
- The media
awareness network: everything on media policy you ever wanted to know.
- Legal Group for the
Internet in Canada useful essays on web topics, though getting old
now.
- Strategis (Industry Canada): Telecommunications
Policy Branch Home Page
- CRTC
- Canadian Multimedia Guide
- Paul Canniff, a
professional web producer who designed this current site.
- Bob Frankston has published an
article on the necessity of separating ownership of transport from
applications. "Beyond
Telecom: from Telecom to Connectivity". He uses the great phrase
"the Regulatorium" to excoriate the mental impasse created by
obsolete legal thinking.
- Yochai
Benkler and in particular "Coase's
Penguin". See also the Duke University Conference
on the Public Domain, November 9-11, 2001 for a vital review of
contemporary issues in the idea of property.
- Larry
Lessig's The Future of Ideas (ISBN 0-375-50578-4) and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
(ISBN 0-465-03913-8). His website contains numerous important writings.
- Marjorie Blumenthal and David Reed, "Rethinking
the design of the Internet: The end-to-end arguments versus the brave new
world", September 2001
- David Reed's: The End of the End-to-End Argument (April
2000) This is a fundamental critique by a formative designer of the Internet.
David Reed's original article "The end-to-end argument in network
design" is found here.
- Advanced
Network Architecture Group, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science is a
trove of net-headedness.
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I recommend: Peter Huber's
Law and Disorder in Cyberspace who disagrees with Lessig in
interesting ways, and Frances
Cairncross' The Death of Distance.
- The Rise of the
Stupid Network -perhaps the best explanation of what is going on, by David Isenberg
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A convenient
explanation of the various access technologies, also by David Isenberg.
-
High
Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner's tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet
Wars, by Charles Ferguson of
MIT, creator of Front Page.
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CIX, The
Commercial Internet Exchange, the premier advocate for US ISPs.
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FCC Web Site
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FCC OPP Working Paper#29 "Digital Tornado: The Internet
and Telecommunications Policy"
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FCC OPP Working Paper#30 "Internet over Cable: Defining
the Future in Terms of the Past"
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US Supreme Court Decision on Communications Decency
Act, June 26, 1997
- US Government proposals for top level domain name
administration (June 5,1998)
-
Memorandum
of Understanding between USG and ICANN (25 November, 1998
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Alliance For Public Technology
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Benton Foundation's Communication
Policy Project
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Center for Democracy and Technology
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Computer Professionals for Social
Responsibility
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Coalition for Networked
Information
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Computer Professionals
for Social Responsibility
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Electronic Privacy Information Center
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Benton Foundation
Telecom Policy Page
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