On 10 May 2010 I filed a
comment on two FCC proceedings concerning ways to improve the
way it does business. I argued that transparency and rule-making
efficiency could be improved by improving the metadata on documents
submitted to the Electronic Comments Filing System (ECFS).
While preparing my paper on new governance and the resilience
principles (item below, forthcoming in
JTHTL) I worked through the Silicon Flatirons governance events
of the last couple of years, and came up with a taxonomy of
governance. These ideas won't make it into the paper, so I've put
them in a working paper up on SSRN:
New Governance for the
Internet: Findings, Taxonomy and Model (May 2010).
I've been working out the implications of my TPRC 2008 paper
“Internet Governance as Forestry” (SSRN)
in a number of settings. I presented the ideas in a panel on "The
Governance Challenges of Cooperation in the Internet Ecosystem" at
the Silicon Flatirons annual conference in Boulder on February 1st,
2010; my comments can be seen
here at time
code 01:36:00 (abut 15 minutes). My
slides are up on Slideshare.net, and a paper is in preparation
for JTHTL. I trimmed the pitch to
five minutes for a panel in DC on "An FCC for the Internet Age:
Reform and Standard-Setting" organized by Silicon Flatirons, ITIF
and Public Knowledge on March 5th, 2010. My introductory comments
tried to summary the "resilience principles" in five minutes: the
video is
available on the Public Knowledge event page, starting at time code
02:04:45. The panel starts at around 01:57:00.
A report (DOC,
PDF) on the conclusions of a closed-door
meeting
of experts about the causes and regulation of inter-channel radio
interference, held at the Silicon Flatirons Center of the University
of Colorado, Boulder, on 8/9 September 2009.
A
slideshow on my analysis of the evolution of FCC lobbying
coalitions; a shorter set (18 slides instead of 31) is
here.
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)
