******************************** The COOK Report on Internet June 2001 (Vol. 10, No. 3) ******************************** CONTENTS Netera Offers CWDM Gig E Backbone -- SUPERNET to Bring Fiber to Entire Province --Focus on Alberta in Assessing Canadian Development in Current Economic Downturn -- A Canadian US Policy Technology Overview and Comparison, pp. 1-15 How to Tell the Difference Between a Switch and a Router, pp. 15 Texas.net - Business Oriented ISP Serves State's Four Major Metro Areas -- Focus on Leased Lines, Usenet Outsourcing and Management Services for Web Farms -- So Far Has Not Needed to Follow Net Access' Dark Fiber Model, pp. 16- 23 BGP Routing System Scaling Problems -- IETF Sets Out to Redesign BGP4 -- A Known Problem: Noel Chiappa in Pages of April 1997 COOK Report Called for Redesign of BGP, pp. 24 - 26 How Media Companies are Conspiring with Hardware Companies to Misuse Copy Protection in Order to Cripple What Consumers Have Rights to Do -- An Excellent Survey, by John Gilmore, pp. 27 - 30 Executive Summary, pp. 30 - 32 ================== COOK Report Summary or [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a distribution list for the monthly free summary of the COOK Report on Internet. You should expect to receive the monthly summary that is usually between 7 and 15 thousand characters long. You may get one or two other messages a month. This list is intended for distribution and not discussion. Anything posted to the list will bounce to me. I regard this as an experiment and reserve the right at my discretion to change list policy. To subscribe by sending a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'subscribe cookrepsum' in the body. To unsubscribe send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe cookrepsum" in the body Full text of executive summary is also available at http://cookreport.com/10.02.shtml -- **************************************************************** The COOK Report on Internet, 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA (609) 882-2572 (phone & fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index to 9 years of the COOK Report at http://cookreport.com For info on new report go to http://cookreport.com/lightipgige.shtml . 'Light IP & Gig E" serves as tutorial on on going economic model of Internet infrastructure - $375.00 ****************************************************************
