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Communications policy in transition : the Internet and beyond /

Communications policy in transition : the Internet and beyond / edited by Benjamin M. Compaine and Shane Greenstein. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2001. - xxii, 425 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Papers from the 28th Telecommunications Policy Research Conference held in Alexandria, Va. in the Fall of 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: I Differing Regulatory Treatment of Access Modes -- 1 Where Internet Service Providers and Telephone Companies -- Compete: A Guide to the Computer Inquiries, Enhanced Service -- Providers, and Information Service Providers 3 -- Robert Cannon -- 2 Broadband Architectures, ISP Business Plans, and Open -- Access 35 -- Shawn O'Donnell -- 3 Regulatory Treatment of IP Transport and Services 59 -- Joshua L. Mindel and Marvin A. Sirbu --II Internet Architecture Design in a Competitive Era -- 4 Rethinking the Design of the Internet: The End-to-End Arguments -- vs. the Brave New World 91 -- Marjory S. Blumenthal and David D. Clark -- 5 The InterNAT: Policy Implications of the Internet Architecture -- Debate 141 -- Hans Kruse, William Yurcik, and Lawrence Lessig -- 6 The Potential for Scrutiny of Internet Peering Policies in -- Multilateral Forums 159 -- Rob Frieden -- 7 Wireline vs. Wireless Internet Access: Comparing the United States -- and Japan 195 -- Emily Moto Murase --III Dilemmas in Development of Communications Infrastructure -- 8 Developing Telecommunications Infrastructure: State and Local -- Policy Collisions 221 -- Sharon Strover and Lon Berquist -- 9 From C to Shining C: Competition and Cross-Subsidy in -- Communications 241 -- Gregory L. Rosston and Bradley S. Wimmer --IV The End of the Digital Divide? -- 10 Unexpected Outcomes in Digital Divide Policy: What Children -- Really Do in the Public Library 265 -- Christian Sandvig -- 11 Accessibility of Broadband Telecommunications Services by Various -- Segments of the American Population 295 -- David Gabel and Florence Kwan -- 12 Reexamining the Digital Divide 321 -- Benjamin M. Compaine --V Information Policy and Commercial Internet Behavior -- 13 Sorting Out the Search Engine Market 351 -- Neil Gandal -- 14 Copyright in the Age of Distributed Applications 369 -- Seth D. Greenstein -- 15 Should Congress Establish a Compulsory License for Internet Video -- Providers to Retransmit Over-the-Air TV Station Programming via -- the Internet? 397 -- Michael Wirth and Larry Collette.

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Communication policy--United States--Congresses.
Internet--United States--Congresses.
Telecommunication policy--United States--Congresses.

P95.82.U6 / C66 2001

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