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"ENUM and the Future
of Registries, What will we do when all this stuff works?" (.ppt, 223 kb)
A discussion of why the governance and workings of registries will become a
prime topic of interest as we move to an integrated IP world, and why we are
unprepared for this discussion. London, England June 2006
2005
Tucows' presentations to the Telecommunications
Policy Review
first round, August 15, 2005
second
round, September 15, 2005 End to end versus "buy our box"
(.ppt, 413 kb)
A discussion of the relationship of telecom policy to
property, society and much else, presented at the University of Ottawa, May,
2004
A presentation to the Canadian
Information Processing Society in Vancouver on May 4, 2004 on ENUM Press
coverage of me on the ENUM issue
"Protocol Interfaces are the
New Bottlenecks: What the Internet Means for Telecom Regulation"
by Timothy Denton to the Pacific Telecommunications Conference, January 2002
(120 KB)
The Political Economy of
Networks
(93 KB)
A presentation to the PTC in January 2002 on the perils
of not regulating market power as it relates to the Internet. The
presentation is a background to why the concerns expressed in "Protocol
Interfaces are the New Bottlenecks" are relevant.
"The Governance of the Domain
Name System" by Timothy Denton to the Pacific Telecommunications
Conference, January 2002 (571 KB)
"Reconciling the Broadcast Model with the Internet"
by Timothy Denton, June 18, 2001 (91 KB)
A presentation to the Insight Conference in Toronto on
why the broadcasting model cannot be reconciled to the Internet. Gets at the
idea of the infrastructural, logical and content layers of any medium, and
how any of them can be competitive, common, or monopolistic.
"IP Versus Legacy Networks",
by Timothy Denton to the Center for Digital Democracy, Washington, DC, May
2001 (352 KB)
This continues the work of François Ménard and me in
"Paradigm Shift for the Stupid Network",
in which I bring together the contrast between the "End-to-end
Principle" and the legacy networks, tie it in to access to high-speed
facilities, and why Canadian telecom policy, like that in the United States,
seems not to understand what is at stake. Or maybe it does and just wants to
hand the future to the incumbents.
"Canadian Domain
Governance, the Twice Delegated CIRA" (70 KB)
A paper for the 2000 Domain Name Governance, Law and
Policy Forum, University of Ottawa, November 29, 2000 that explores the
foundational documents governing country code delegations from ICANN
and the Canadian government
"From Master-Slave to Peer-to-Peer" by Timothy
Denton and François Ménard, October 3, 2000 (210 KB)
Presented to the IIC (International
Institute of Communications) in Tampa, Florida, it captures the essence of
the linkages between the economic growth that we have seen arising from the
Internet, and the importance of the peer-to-peer architecture of the
Internet
"The Broadcasting Act
and the Internet" by Timothy Denton to CANARIE's Third Annual
Advanced Networks Workshop, December 15, 1998 (34 KB)
This discusses how the laws of Canada divide cyberspace
into different legal regimes, and why the Broadcasting Act is an
inappropriate tool for conceiving of and regulating the Internet. From the
"Policy and Governance" session.
"CAIP's
Submission to the Commons Committee on Canadian Heritage", April 2,
1997, in which the Canadian Association of Internet Providers (of which I
was then the counsel) explains how the Internet works, how it is regulated
in Canada, and why the Internet should not be subject to the regulation of
the Broadcasting Act
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