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Category: contractsSeptember 30, 2009 Commerce Department and ICANN Sign Historic Accord on Internet GovernanceWashington, D.C | Sep. 30, 2009: ICANN and the U.S. Department of Commerce have signed an historic Affirmation agreement supporting the ICANN model of international multi-stakeholder and bottom-up governance of the … August 28, 2009 Wow! Strong demand for first round of broadband fundingWASHINGTON, August 27, 2009 – … NTIA and RUS … announced today that they received almost 2,200 applications requesting nearly $28 billion in funding for proposed broadband projects reaching all 50 U.S. states and territories and the District of Columbia. This is the first round of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding … with $4 billion available through loans, grants, and loan/grant combinations. The NTIA/RUS news release here A good description of the broadband stimulus program and current status from eSchool News: August 3, 2009 IETF plenary session on Network NeutralityLast 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 22, 2009 ITIF Files Response to FCC National Broadband Strategy InquiryITIF Response to FCC National Broadband Strategy NOI (Notice of Inquiry) July 22, 2009: As the FCC develops America’s first national broadband strategy it will be important to focus on both broadband supply and demand as well as the presence of market failures within the broadband marketplace. Relying on markets alone will not meet our country’s future broadband needs. Instead, to meet the goals for broadband coverage outlined by the FCC, targeted subsidies should be used to expand coverage and adoption beyond what the market will provide. In this FCC filing, ITIF discusses the policy and non-policy factors that affect broadband deployment and outlines an appropriate policy framework for a successful national broadband strategy. July 20, 2009 'Future Internet' Information Meeting – Sponsored by CISE/NSF and IPTO/DARPA, July 29Summary: 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. |
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