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Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 16:37:43 +0200
From: "Bruce Girard" bgirard@comunica.org
Subject: TP 24-6/7 - Next Generation Internet
Next Generation Internet -- A special issue of Telecommunications Policy
You are invited to forward this message to interested people.
The editorial and some of the articles from a special double issue of Telecommunications
Policy (24-6/7, July/August 2000) are now online at <http://www.tpeditor.com>
The theme of the issue is "Next Generation Internet".
The lead article, _Understanding Next Generation Internet: An Overview of
Developments_, is by Tony Rutkowski, special adviser to the issue.
He introduces the NGI, the initiatives driving it forward, some major elements
of NGI development, and points to some links to important market and policy
issues. He reminds us that the Internet
is not a network as we typically conceive a network, but a means for integrating
networks and services. As he sees it,
the NGI is an "enabling mechanism" for experimentation from
everywhere, and for the development of ubiquitous mass services.
In another article, Jens Arnbak, Chair of the Dutch telecom regulator, OPTA,
looks at some important issues for telecom regulation in the dynamic NGI technology
and market environment. He points to
the importance of unbundling network transmission components into basic layers
of physical capacity, network management, value-added services and content
services. This provides a foundation
for promoting competition and experimentation more effectively, and a guide to focus
regulation more sharply in the specific levels of the network where it is
needed. He presents what he calls the
"open space" for network communication, and argues that a major role
for regulators is maximizing efficient access opportunities to that space. The important forthcoming issues of
fixed-mobile integration and UMTS licensing are presented as illustrative
applications of his framework for analysis.
Three reviews are online: Christopher Hunter reviews Simson Garfinkel's
_Database Nation_ , Carleen Maitland reviews _Trust in Cyberspace_, a
collection edited by Fred Schneider, and Kas Kalba reviews _Internet and
Society_, a study by the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of
Society.
Also online, in the Current Statistics section, Matthew Zook writes about
using host and domain counts to map the internet.
The issue's editorial, abstracts for all articles, and links to authors'
prepublication versions are also at http://www.tpeditor.com.
Table of Contents
Telecommunications Policy - Volume 24, Nos. 6/7 (July/August 2000)
NEXT GENERATION INTERNET
FROM THE EDITOR -- William H. Melody
INTRODUCTION
Understanding Next-generation Internet; an Overview of Developments -
Anthony M. Rutkowski (Special Advisor to this Issue) - Abstract and Full
article Online
POLICY FORUM
Regulation for Next Generation Technologies and Markets - Jens Arnbak - Full
article Online
FULL LENGTH ARTICLES
Access and Innovation Policy for the Third-Generation Internet -- Francois
Bar, Stephen Cohen, Peter Cowhey, Brad DeLong, Michael Kleeman, John Zysman --
Link to authors' pre-publication version
Protecting the global information commons -- Stephen J. Lukasik
What's in a name, what's in a number: Some characteristics of identifiers on
electronic networks -- Hendrik Rood
ICANN between Technical Mandate and Political Challenges -- Wolfgang Kleinwachter
Pricing internet services: after flat rate -- Lee W. McKnight and Jahangir
Boroumand
CASE STUDY
Multiple incentive internet pricing for NRNS: A Case study -- Theodore Apostolopoulos,
Costas Courcoubetis, Sandra Cohen and Xanthi Psiakki
CURRENT STATISTICS
Internet Metrics: Using Host and Domain Counts to Map the Internet --
Matthew Zook - Abstract and Full article Online
REPORT REVIEW
Only the Lonely: Internet Usage and Effects, a review of Internet and
Society, a report by the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of
Society -- Kas Kalba, Kalba International, USA - Full article Online
BOOK REVIEWS
Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century, Simson Garfinkel
-- Reviewed by Christopher D. Hunter, Annenberg School for Communication -
Online
Trust in Cyberspace, Fred B. Schneider, editor -- Reviewed by Carleen Maitland,
Delft University of Technology - Online
Convergence in European Digital TV Regulation: Law in its Social Setting --
Reviewed by Lesley Hitchens, School of Law, University of Warwick
Telecommunications Policy is concerned with the changing roles of telecommunications
in the economy and society. It provides
a forum for research and debate amongst academics, policymakers, regulators, industry
managers, consultants and other professionals.
Its orientation is multidisciplinary and international, encompassing issues
of both theory and practice. Its scope
includes issues of telecom reform at national, regional and international
levels, including issues confronting both developed and developing countries. It
pays particular attention to the implications of convergence for knowledge
infrastructure development, management and regulation.
- - -
Bruce Girard - bgirard@comunica.org or bruceg@sepa.tudelft.nl
TU Delft: +(31-15) 278.8548 - Fax: +(31-20) 882.6517
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