6thANNUAL INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ADVANCED RADIO TECHNOLOGIES
2 - 4 March 2004
325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305 USA
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Tuesday, March 2, 2004
9:00 Welcome, <http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/ntiageneral/bios/mdgbio_10162003.htm>Michael D. Gallagher, Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and Acting NTIA Administrator
9:15 Keynote Address, <http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~farber/>David Farber, Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy, <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/>Carnegie Mellon University, <http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/01/biztech/articles/03farb.html>Former FCC Chief of Technology
Outline of talk
What are the FCC policy issues of the future and how will that impact the data world:
� Spectrum , spectrum, spectrum
� UWB, SDR and open range
� Interference?
� Competition -- or the lack thereof
� Increasing consolidation
� The internet � what to do or not do
We Are at the Beginning of a Great Change � yet again
� The next 10 years will be as wild as the last 25
� Technology will change dramatically
� Moores law -- The power of a computer will double every 18 months. (maybe 12 months now)
The Real Next Generation -- Photonic Networks
� Implications
� Protocols IP?
� Processor architecture
� Software systems
� Will it be a fully distributed system -- back to the past
NLR Footprint Topology
National Light Rail
� Dark Fiber National footprint
� Serves very high-end Experimental and Research Applications
� 4- 10.0 GB Wavelengths initially (4 - 40 Gigs planned)
� Partnership
Firehoses feeding a garden hose
� 100s of megabits to the home and in the home
� XDSL,
� Cable,
� Fiber
� Wireless
� How to get there
� A challenge to the establishment -- the carriers
� Economics?
� So what do I need it for?
What are the techno-policy issues in spectrum?
� How long can we exist in the chaos and limits of current spectrum use
� Is spectrum unlimited?
� Commons vs property rights vs current state
� Sue them or regulate them?
� Different ways of networking � Mesh
� Security etc
Security and Availability Will Be the Drivers
� The current internet is vulnerable
� Points of potential vulnerability
� Service protocols
� Commercial arrangements
� Old software
� Hard to design security in after the fact
Liberty vs Security
� Location technology
� Identification technology
� Let me listen � I promise I will not wrongly use it
� Can I have security and still liberty?
Digital Rights Management DRM
� Lots of �we hate it�
� Lots of ban it
� What is it?
� Why might we actually learn to love it
Privacy Rights Management
� The global data about me
� Who will look at it?
� Who will use it for what
� Accountability
My favorite quotes
� They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety � Ben Franklin 1784
� The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it -- John Gilmore
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