From the
conclusion: "The concern of this paper has been to alert the reader that
issues of discrimination are not going to be defined out of existence in the
forthcoming world of increased reliance on market forces. They will become
more acute. The second purpose was to show that we have much to be concerned
about in the possible re-establishment of the centralized governments of
communications. It would be ironic and self-defeating for the most
pro-competitive of recent Canadian governments to assist in their
re-establishment. Such a thing might occur if attention were not paid in a
timely way to the implications of some carriers’ existing legal privileges,
and to the future occasions and incentives for the practice of
anti-competitive discriminations in an Internet era."
"Privacy Issues in ENUM": A Study for Industry
Canada, October 21, 2003 (108 KB)
ENUM is a protocol that translates
telephone numbers into domain names. More precisely, ENUM is a protocol that
defines a method to convert an ordinary telephone number into a format that
can be used on the Internet to look up Internet addressing information, such
as, for example, VoIP or email addresses.
"A Paradigm Shift for
the Stupid Network: Interconnecting with Legacy Networks in the
Internet Era" by Timothy Denton and François Ménard, June 15,
2000 (293 KB)
Following on our work in "Bellheads versus Netheads", this is
a policy piece on the need for regulators to understand that the end-to-end
architecture of the Internet needs to be protected against the
central-planning model of telephony and cable television.
"The Internet
Illustrated" (411 KB)
I have not seen a better explanation of how the Internet
works than the one found in this chapter of a piece I am doing on
International Charging Arrangements for Internet Services (please forgive
the apparent conceit!). Plenty of great illustrations by Albert Prisner
(613-230-8604) which clarify the differences between circuit-switching and
packet-routing architectures.
The client is the Singapore Telecommunications
Authority and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC). The whole
of the first round report on Internet charging and settlement issues is
found at the APEC
telecom working group web page
"Netheads Versus Bellheads:
Research into Emerging Policies in the Development and Deployment of
Internet Protocols" by Timothy Denton, with François Ménard and David
Isenberg, for the Federal Department of Industry, Telecom Policy Branch,
March 31, 1999 (216 KB)
We deal with two different visions for the
future of the Internet and what it means in terms of policy. This essay is
interesting, informative and doubtless controversial. The choice lies
between the
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Intelligent network: The system that
specifies what services are and can be, and the
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Dumb network/stupid network: A network
that does not define what ‘services’ are or can be.
The last monopoly of the owners of PSTN is
to define what "services" are.
This article received over 35,000 hits in
July, 1999 and 3,303 user sessions, many from leading US and foreign network
manufacturers.
"The Distribution of
Signals in Cyberspace: An Examination of what the Internet means for
Signal Distribution and Broadcasting" by Timothy Denton, prepared for
the CRTC, August 14, 1998 (384 KB)
This was written for the CRTC in relation to the new
media hearings scheduled for autumn, 1998. A review in several chapters of
the history of the regulation of radiocommunication and broadcasting, the
nature of the Internet, and the policy choices for Canada brought about by
these new realities. Thoughtful comments are welcomed.
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