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September 22, 2009
By Cecilia Kang | Washington Post | Tues. Sep. 22, 2009 :
The agency would be the “smart cop on the beat,” Genachowski said in a speech, outlining a plan to prohibit Internet service providers from blocking or slowing certain technologies and content on their networks. The chairman proposed that firms be required to make public the steps they are taking to control Web traffic.
To view Genachowski speech 9/21/2009 at Brookings here
Download original text of his speech here
The proposal raised concerns among several providers, which said the regulation could hurt their business by limiting their ability to manage their networks.
September 12, 2009
A Discussion with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski
Monday, September 21, 2009, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave, NW , Washington, DC
Recognizing the need to expand the U.S. broadband network to ensure America’s infrastructure …
August 14, 2009
Netroots Nation, 4 days in Pittsburgh, August 13-16, taking use of the Internet for social discourse to new levels, see: http://www.netrootsnation.org.
RightOnLine, 2 days in Pittsburgh, August 14-15, Take Control of the Internet, see: http://netrootsnation.org.
Streaming Netroots Nation:…
August 5, 2009
Wired Epicenter | By Ryan Singel |August 4, 2009: PALO ALTO, California — Call it the summer of broadband.
Early this week the new FCC chairman Julius Genachowski, a former law school …
Federal IT Dashboard – CIO evaluations are in | Vivek Kundra, Federal CIO | See: http://it.usaspending.gov
We just reached an important milestone with respect to the Agency CIOs completing their reviews of the federal government’s major IT investments. On …
August 3, 2009
Last week, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meet in Stockholm. Most of the sessions were audiocast, but many of them are very, very technical and narrowly-focused.
Agenda details for the full one-week IETF meeting at https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/75/agenda.html
Thursday night, July 30, the IETF had a general-interest plenary session on Network Neutrality. The debate outline:
July 30, 2009
July 29, 2009: At Congressional hearing by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the Chairman made a strong statement about banning P2P software from government and contractor computers (link to statement below). Testimony again reported that critical U.S. information had been leaked through a LimeWire P2P file-sharing network installed without aurhorization on personal computers in government facilities. It was reported that secret information such as a list of all government nuclear facilities, the emergency escape route and safe house location of the First Lady had leaked and are widely available on foreign web site. This is now reported as inaccurate, see link below to Washington Post story.
July 24, 2009
July 20, 2009
Summary: A one-day informational meeting related to NSF’s Future Internet Design initiative. The meeting will discuss CISE’s plans for funding opportunities that relate to continued work on future Internet design. The primary goal of the meeting will be to provide information regarding funding opportunities for future Internet design and development within CISE.
Westin Gateway Hotel 801 N. Glebe Road, Arlington, VA
All-day meeting July 29, reception the previous evening.
July 14, 2009
ISOC-NY.ORG announcements | July 14 09: Members of ISOC-NY attended ICANN’s gTLD Implementation Consultation session at the Millennium Hotel in NYC last Monday July 13. It was an interesting session.
ICANN’s Implementation Recommendation Team presented their report on how disputes over trademarks in …
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