Blair Levin interview on CSPAN
FCC Broadband Plan supremo Blair Levin was interviewed on CSPAN on Dec 21.
Interviewer Amy Schatz has written a summary in the Wall Street Journal.
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ISOC-DC Smart Grid event – Jan 20 2010
ISOC-DC presents:
An Internet 2020 discussion on developing the Smart Grid6:30-8:00 PM, Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Lister Hill Auditorium, National Library of Medicine, BethesdaOur next public event will explore how the electric power grid–and the appliances in your home–are being networked, enabling electric utilities to better control electric power generation, consumption, and distribution. The meeting will be held at the Lister Hill conference facility at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda. Speakers include Fred Baker, former Chairman of the Board of the Internet Society and former Chairman of the IETF, Katherine Hamilton, President of the Gridwise Alliance, as well as others participating in the IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference being held at NIST January 19-21 ( http://ewh.ieee.org/conf/isgt/2010/ )
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Synchro – NYC/Tokyo online musical collaboration event
A streaming music collaboration between Tokyo and NYC.
Tues Dec 22 2009 (NYC) / Weds Dec 23 (Tokyo)
Neohachi vs Jeremy Slater (10:30pm, EST) (12.30pm JST)
Soundworm vs Nick Lesley (11:25pm, EST) (01.25pm JST)
Chihei Hatakeyama vs Brendon Andergg (12:20am, EST) (02:20pm JST)with video by Kazuhiro Nakamura (Tokyo) & Tomoyuki Kage (NYC)
NYC location: Supercore (Bedford @ S3rd, Williamsburg NYC) (map)
Tokyo location: Loopline 日本〒151-0051, 東京都渋谷区千駄ヶ谷１丁目２１−６ (map)
If you cannot attend the performance in either NYC or Tokyo, you can listen to the mix stream here: http://216.254.73.69/synchro.mp3
“Communication with music can reach beyond borders both defined and perceived. Expressing this to its fullest potential is a new interactive & music event called “Synchro.” Making the connections across two sides of the globe are Tokyo and New York. These two meccas of avant-garde and cutting edge technology will provide a base for this new challenge in online collaboration. A new object called Synchrobot will be present to document the event in real-time, adding an element of atmosphere and inter-connectedness for the sake of viewers and performers on both sides. Two graphic artists make different objects based on the same way of thinking. New York’s SUPERCORE and Tokyo live space LOOPLINE will be the launching pad for this truly unique musical vision. We are going to be ONE.”More info: http://bit.ly/6V0hX6 (facebook event)
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The GTD P2 Theme
Templatic.com has released a new theme based on P2 called GTD. GTD is meant for private use for collaborative teams of people. Asides from the default functionality supplied by P2, GTD has added file attachment and user notification functions. -
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New gTLD Program — ICANN Proposes Draft Expression of Interest / Pre-Registrations Model
18 December 2009 ICANN is publishing today for public comment a draft model for soliciting Expressions of Interest for new generic top-level domains (new gTLDs) [PDF, 192K]. According to this EOI / pre-registration model, entities interested in participating in the first round of the New gTLD Program are required to submit basic information about the participating entity and the requested top-level domain, also referred to as “string”.
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Comments on purported Chinese Internet Metering Plan
Olivier of ISOC-England writes:
Very interesting article on the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8417680.stm
My own views on this article is that there appears to be a gross misunderstanding by many people of how the Internet works, and I am trying to find out in this instance, who’s more guilty of this misunderstanding, whether it is “China”, the gentleman from the European Commission, the ITU, or the BBC.
Yes, in some cases, the Internet works with peering agreements allowing for flow of traffic from backbone provider to backbone provider. But this is not the case for every Internet Service Provider out there.
“Pendants”, ie. networks connected to the rest of the network through a single link, sometimes pay to get connected to the Internet backbone, with no “discount” whatsoever. This has always been the case, and it is therefore entirely possible that an end user gets charged according to the amount of traffic they send and receive. The great thing about the Internet is that charging models at the edge of the network (customer access points etc.) can be whatever you design them to be. Of course, you can’t charge on a per destination basis, but that’s the whole point of the Internet.The use of the word “Borders” in the article is even more confusing: “China wants to meter all internet traffic that passes through its borders”, ie. into/out of the country, and there is allusion to the “Border Gateway Protocol – BGP”. What an amalgamation! These two, I’m afraid, are completely unrelated.
Also, the paragraph “It would allow countries which currently receive no payment for use of their lines to generate income.” is completely misleading too. Short of a few insane volunteers like us lot, I have never heard of an actual “country”, (1) being in the business of owning and running telecommunications lines, and (2) doing it for free.
Finally, I find it… amusing, for lack of better fitting word, to see that the ITU, an organisation which has brilliantly excelled in its absence of involvement in the development of the Internet, is purported as being “the UN body in charge of internet standards”.
Is the ITU trying to introduce a PSTN-era monopoly telecom control? Shall we all turn back our clocks 30 years?
Red herring or serious political move? I wonder if any of you have sources which could validate this article, and whether the perceived threat is real or grossly inflated?
Bonus question: if metering Internet access in this way, how will economic growth be impacted in Western Economies when their digital economy plans collapse?Warmest regards,
Olivier
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Rudolf
I say it's not likely to happen. I set up a bit of a blog post at http://internetthought.blogspot.com (not too happy with it, but my seven month old demands more attention than my blog 🙂
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At-Large Improvement meeting
There was an At-Large Improvement Plan meeting at 5am today – I was unable to attend.
Details: here.
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ICANN North America At-Large Organization meeting 12/14/09 – report
I attended the 12/14 NARALO meeting on behalf of ISOC-NY.
1. The Special Trademark Issues (STI) Review Team has issued it’s recommendations. This is a follow up to the earlier IRT proposals that were discussed at sessions like the one in NYC earlier in the year. The lack of consensus there led to the STI process which indeed has succeeded in ironing out many differences. The At-Large nevertheless has quibbles detailed here.
2. Outreach at conferences was discussed. A small number of conferences, including the Nonprofit Technology Network, has been targeted. Funds will be applied for. A brochure is needed. A brochure working group was formed. Examples are the current EURALO and At-Large brochures.
3.Theresa Swineheart gave a presentation on the newly forged ICANN Draft Strategic Plan 2010 – 2013. There is a 45 day comment period closing Jan 21 2010. There is also a survey. Feel free to also reply to this post with any comments. The reccomendations will be voted on by the GNSO Council on Thurs Dec 17.
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OpenNY Summit Videos
I’ve edited the lightning talks from last Friday’s OpenNY Summit lightning talk session
https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=11E7C4F68DEFAE4AMore recordings from the event can be found at https://livestream.com/openny
Rudolf is discussing. 
Joly MacFie 5:14 am on December 25, 2009 Permalink |
What made my jaw drop in Levin’s remarks were that, while summarily ruling out structural/functional separation, he happily foresaw a future for most US citizens where the choice was between 50mpbs wireline as an offering of cable companies via DOCSIS3, and wireless 5mpbs via the phone companies. In his opinion it is quite possible that many will decide that 5mpbs is quite satisfactory.
Echoes of 640k enough for anybody?
In fact wireline just does not seem to be a big concern, seen more as a lifeline. I note his 2006 remarks to the Judiciary Committee:
“Given where we are, it is likely that the only way to drive more, bigger, cheaper, and ubiquitous broadband is through new, probably wireless, broadband facilities.”
http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/testimony.cfm?id=1937&wit_id=5421
It appears little has occurred at the FCC to change his mind.