Notes on Reforming the Federal Communications Commission,
a comment prepared for a conference to be held by Public Knowledge
and Silicon Flatirons at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C.,
5th January 2009. The panels are on Youtube, including
mine; some
of my comments at 8:50, 35:11, 54:16, 1:04:37.
"De-situating spectrum: Rethinking radio policy using
non-spatial metaphors" (17 pages,
abstract and download at
SSRN) - an
attempt to show that there are better alternatives to the spectrum
concept for radio regulation. Accepted for
DySPAN '08;
slides (450 kB
PDF).
"Internet Governance as Forestry: Deriving Policy Principles from
Managed Complex Adaptive Systems" (56 pages,
abstract and download at
SSRN); for a short introduction, see the
Publius essay for
the Berkman Center. Accepted for
TPRC '08.
Internet Forestry: A Principles Approach to Governance, an essay
for the Berkman Center's Publius
Project (May 2008)
Wayne Stark and Pierre de Vries, "Detection of White Spaces in a
Cognitive Radio Architecture,"
Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications,
2008. CrownCom 2008. 3rd International Conference on, pp 1-6,
15-17 May 2008.
Abstract on IEEE Xplore.
Gary Tonge and Pierre de Vries, "The Role of Licence-Exemption
in Spectrum Reform," COMMUNICATIONS & STRATEGIES,
no. 67, 3rd quarter 2007, p. 85 (abstract and download at
SSRN)
A May 2007 lecture on "Hard Intangibles" at the Annenberg Center for
Communication at USC (abstract)
has now been posted in a choice of formats. Audio:
MP3. Video:
QuickTime or
Windows Media.
"Imagining Radio: Mental Models of Wireless Communication" (abstract
and download at SSRN) - an
exploration of the mental models used in spectrum policy. Presented
at Dyspan 2007, published in the 3rd IEEE International Symposium on New Frontiers
in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, 2007.
