Readings (Preliminary)
There are no required texts to purchase. Most of the readings for the course
can be obtained over the Internet (in many cases, that's the only way);
the reading list has the links embedded. In many cases, the file is stored
in a compressed or special graphics format. With luck, the workstation
you are using is set up to automatically display each type of file. If
not, see the "Helper Apps for Viewing Files" section of the Net
Resources page for this class.
Part of what you will be learning in this course is how to effectively
use the Web to get on top of current policy issues. With current
issues, many valuable materials are not available in print. On the
other hand, you should not become too Web-dependent: many valuable materials
never make it to the Web. There is also some risk in relying so heavily
on the network: occasionally links will go down, or directory structures
may change and files seemingly "disappear". If you have trouble getting
a reading, try again a little while later. Try exploring a bit around the
server where the document is supposed to be located. Ask your classmates
if they got a copy. Search for alternative materials. If you do find any
changes in the location addresses (URL's) for materials, please notify
me!
Required materials that are not on the Web will be found on reserve.
"Further starting points" materials you have to dig up yourself, via Web
or otherwise.
Here is a directory of engineering
reference materials available on the net (try the "subject directory").
This is a good place to start searching for additional technical information.
And here is The McGraw-Hill
Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, available only to the UM campus
community, with over 7000 articles on technical topics.
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Introduction to Information Policy Issues
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Recommended:
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Browse the "Policy
and Regulation" section of my Telecom Info Resources on the Internet
directory
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Jeff MacKie-Mason and Hal Varian, "Economic
FAQs about the Internet", Journal of Economic Perspectives,
Summer 1994.
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Summaries from "Internet ? Society", Harvard Law School course, Fall 1997
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See "What's Hot" at the Electronic Freedom
Foundation
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And look at the front page of the Center
for Democracy and Technology, too
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National Research Council, Realizing
the Information Future (may no longer be available online; I will put
my copy on reserve). Read Chapter
1. (Note: There are several sections in this chapter; follow
the links.)
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The Economist, "A
survey of Telecommunications" (for purchase), 30 Sept 1995. (I'll try
to put my copy of the full book-length version on reserve, but I can't
find it at the moment.)
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Business Week, "The
Information Revolution: Introduction", 1994 Special Bonus Issue, pp.
10-18.
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Further Starting Points:
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James Gleick, "Justice
Delayed: Yes, Microsoft's Products are 'Integrated'". First published
in The New York Times Magazine, 23 November 1997.
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The Economist, "A
survey of the Internet", (for purchase). 1 July 1995.
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Forbes ASAP -- The
Digital Revolution: Why and Whither. 2 December 1996
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Jonathan Blake and Lee Tiedrich, "The
National Information Infrastructure Initiative and the Emergence of the
Electronic Superhighway", Federal Communications Law Journal,
vol. 46, no. 3. Already dated review of three 1994 legislative initiatives,
but contains a useful overview of wireless and fiber policy issues. Read
Section III.A,B
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Jerry Michalski, "The Economics
of Connectivity", Release 1.0, 1996
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Sky Dayton, "The
Natural Evolution of the Internet Industry", August 1996
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Richard W. Wiggins, "Growth
of the Internet: An Overview of a Complicated Subject", 1995 (Link
broken)
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Henry Hardy, "The
History of the Net", Master's Thesis, School of Communications, Grand
Valley State University, v. 8.5, 28 Sept 1993
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Technologies and Network Architecture
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Required (warning: technical!):
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Craig Partridge, Gigabit
Networking (Addison-Wesley, 1994), chapter 2.
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George Calhoun, Wireless
Access and the Local Telephone Network (Artech House, 1992), pp.
241-249, 259-267
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Martin de Prycker,
Asynchronous
Transfer Mode: Solution for Broadband ISDN (Ellis Horwood, 1991),
pp. 26-48
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Raif Onvural,
Asynchronous
Transfer Mode Networks: Performance Issues (Artech House, 1994),
chapter 2
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Further resources:
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Allocating public information resources
A view
of the future?
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Required:
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J. Murphy and C. Hofacker, "Explosive
Growth Clogs Internet Backbone", New York Times -- CyberTimes,
June 29-30, 1996
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MacKie-Mason and Varian, "Pricing
the Internet", in Public Access to the Internet, B. Kahin and
J. Keller, eds., MIT Press 1995
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S. Shenker, D. Clark, D. Estrin, S. Herzog, "Pricing
in Computer Networks: Reshaping the Research Agenda". Original
available in Postscript.
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George Gilder, "Auctioning
the Airwaves", Forbes ASAP, 11 April 1994
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Hazlett, T., "Spectrum
Auctions -- Only a First Step", Wall Street Journal, 20 December
1994.
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Further starting points:
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MacKie-Mason, J. and H. Varian, "Some
FAQs about Usage-Based Pricing", (published version in Computers
and ISDN, 1995)
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MacKie-Mason, J., "Lecture
Notes on Spectrum Auctions"
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J. Crowcroft, "Pricing
the Internet", Internet draft (draft-crowcroft-pricing-the-i-00.txt),
3 July 1996
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T. Tanaka, "Is Packet
Usage Pricing Inevitable?", Research Paper Glocom-10, Center for Global
Communications, International University of Japan
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Peter Cramton, "The
PCS Spectrum Auctions: Theory to Practice" (on reserve) 1995
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Peter Cramton, "The
FCC Spectrum Auctions: An Early Assessment", Journal of Economics
and Management Strategy, 6:3, 431-495, 1997.
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Murphy, J. and B. Massey, "No
Shortage of Bottlenecks For Internet Traffic", New York Times --
Cybertimes, June 29-30, 1996
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Germain, Ellen, "Will
Pricing Be the Price of a Faster Internet?", Science, 2 August
1996, vol. 273, p. 586.
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Germain, Ellen, "Fast
Lanes on the Internet", Science, 2 August 1996, vol. 273, pp.
585ff.
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Journal of Electronic Publishing, Special
Issue on Internet Economics, May 1996.
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Perez, Miguel A., "Pricing
the Internet : A Model and a Practical Implementation", INET '95
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Bohn, Braun, Claffy and Wolff, "Mitigating
the Coming Internet Crunch". Original
available in Postscript.
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Villasis, Santiago, "An
Optimal Pricing Mechanism for Internet's End-Users", [PDF format] a
Master's Thesis.
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Jamie Love, Open
letter to NSF re: Pricing Internet Usage
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MacKie-Mason and Varian, "Pricing
Congestible Resources", IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications,
September 1995
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Shenker, Scott "Service
Models and Pricing Policies for an Integrated Services Internet".
In Public Access to the Internet, B. Kahin and J. Keller, eds.,
MIT Press 1995. Original
available in Postscript.
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Kelly, Frank, "Charging and Accounting for Bursty Connections," in Internet
Economics, L. McKnight and J. Bailey, eds. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
1996). Also online at the Journal
of Electronic Publishing.
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Kelly, Frank, "Tariffs and Effective Bandwidths in Multiservice Networks,"
in The Fundamental Role of Teletraffic in the Evolution of Telecommunations
Network, ITC 14, J. Labetoulle and J. Roberts, eds. (Amsterdam:
Elsevier, 1994)
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Gerry Faulhaber, "Pricing
the Net: What Economists Do"
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Gupta, Alok, Dale Stahl and Andrew Whinston. "An
Economic Approach to Networked Computing with Priority Classes", J.
of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, 6:71-95.
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Mike Perry on spectrum
scarcity
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Com-priv
debate on spectrum auctions
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Archives and Directories:
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Monopoly Leveraging: Gates forever?
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Required:
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U.S. FTC, "Promoting
Competition, Protecting Consumers: A Plain English Guide to
Antitrust Laws".
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Roger Noll, "The
Role of Antitrust in Telecommunications", CEPR No. 406, Dept. of Economics,
Stanford University, December 1994
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Gary Reback, S. Creighton, D. Killam, and N. Nathanson, "White
Paper: Technological, Economic And Legal Perspectives Regarding Microsoft's
Business Strategy In Light Of The Proposed Acquisition Of Intuit, Inc.",
14 Nov 1994
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Familiarize yourself with the current antitrust case against Microsoft
(U.S. v. Microsoft Corporation, Civil Action 94-1564 (Dist. Court
D.C.) (Internet Explorer case). Here are some (!) of the important
legal documents:
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U.S. Department of Justice (1997). "Memorandum Of The United States In
Support Of Petition For An Order To Show Cause Why Respondent Microsoft
Corporation Should Not Be Found In Civil Contempt", 20 October 1997. http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases3/micros2/1237.htm
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Microsoft Corporation (1997). "Memorandum Of Microsoft Corporation In Advance
Of The October 27, 1997 Scheduling Conference Before The Court", 27 October
1997. http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/doj/dojletter.htm
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Microsoft Corporation (1997). "Memorandum In Opposition To Petition Of
The United States For An Order To Show Cause Why Respondent Microsoft Corporation
Should Not Be Found In Civil Contempt", 10 November 1997. http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/11-10Filing.html
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U.S. Department of Justice (1997). "Reply Brief Of Petitioner United States
Of America", 20 November 1997. http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases3/micros2/1277.htm
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Jackson, Judge Thomas (1997). "Memorandum and Order", 11 December 1997.
(Microsoft ordered to unbundle Internet Explorer from Windows95.) (http://web.lawcrawler.com/microsoft/usdoj/cases/ms121197.html
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Jackson, Judge Thomas, et al. (1998). "Stipulation and Order", 21 January
1998. (Agreement between USDOJ and Microsoft on unbundling.) http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/doj/finalstipulation.htm
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Jackson, Judge Thomas (1998), "Memorandum and Order, 14 September 1998.
(Microsoft's motion for summary judgment denied in part and granted in
part). http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/98-1232f.html
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Further starting points:
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Archives and Directories:
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Internet governance: Who's in charge here?
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Required:
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Lessig, Lawrence, "Governance",
Talk given at the New York Media Association, 10 June 1998.
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Krochmal, Mo, "Magaziner,
Lessig Spar Over Domain Name Plan," CMP Tech Web, 11 June 1998.
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Clausing, Jeri, "Agreement
Reached on New Authority for Internet Addresses", New York Times,
19 September 1998.
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Simons, John and Glenn R. Simpson, "U.S.,
Network Solutions Reach Accord To Open Web Addressing to Competition,"
Wall
Street Journal, 6 October 1998.
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IANA, Discussion
release of proposed naming governance plan, 2 October 1998. See
"News and Announcements" page
for more recent drafts and other news.
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IANA, "Frequently Asked Questions"
(FAQs).
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National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Dept.
of Commerce, "White
Paper: Management of Internet Names and Addresses", 5 June 1998.
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Boston Group (International
Forum on the White Paper). Critique of IANA proposal, discussion of process,
and alternative proposal.
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World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), "WIPO
Internet Domain Name Process"
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Further starting points:
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Kahin, Brian and James Keller, eds., Coordinating
the Internet, (MIT Press, 1997). This online supplement to
the book has most of the chapters in draft form, plus numerous links to
additional relevant material. See especially the chapters by Gillett
and Kapor ("The Self-governing
Internet: Coordination by Design"), and by Johnson and Post ("And
how shall the net be governed? A meditation on the relative virtues
of decentralized, emergent law").
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Information about pgMedia antitrust
and First Amendment lawsuit against NSF concerning domain name management.
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Barkow, Tim, "The
Domain Name System", Wired 4.09.
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DNS-LAW Discussion Group, "Competing
Models of Internet DNS Service Governance", 20 Sept. 1997.
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Archives and Directories:
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Individual in cyber society
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Required:
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Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen. (New York: Simon
and Schuster, 1995). Chapters 1-3 and 7, pp. 29-101, 177-209.
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Dibbell, Julian. "A Rape in Cyberspace: How an Evil Clown, a Haitian
Trikster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database into
a Society," in Internet Dreams: Archetypes, Myths and Metaphors,
Stefik, Mark, ed. (MIT Press: 1996), pp. 293-316.
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Further starting points:
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Kraut, R., V. Lundmark, M. Patterson, S. Kiesler, T. Mukopadhyay, W. Scherlis,
"Internet Paradox:
A Social Technology That Reduces Social Involvement and Psychological Well-Being?",
American
Psychologist, Vol. 53, No. 9 (September 1998), 1017–1031
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Mnookin, Jennifer.
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Binik, Yitzchak M., James Cantor, Eric Ochs, and Marta Meana. "From
the Couch to the Keyboard: Psychotherapy in Cyberspace," in Culture
of the Internet, Sara Kiesler, ed. (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
1997), pp. 71-102.
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Free speech, censorship, pornography and
all that
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Required:
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Lessig, Larry, David Post and Eugene Volokh, "Cyberspace
Law for Non-Lawyers". Read Lessons 40-47 (Free Speech 1-8), and
Lesson 63 (Free Speech 24). They're short.
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Resnick, Paul. "Filtering
Information on the Internet". Scientific American, March 1997, pp.
106-108.
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Lessig, Lawrence and Paul Resnick. "The
Architectures of Mandated Access Controls". Proceedings of the 1998
Telecommunications Policy Research Conference.
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Hafner, Katie, "Library
Grapples With Protecting Internet Freedom", New York Times,
15 October 1998.
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Further starting points:
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Eli Noam, "Principles
for the Communications Act of 2034", Federal Communications Law
Journal, vol. 47, no. 2
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Eli Noam, The
Impending Doom of Common Carriage. Also on reserve.
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Jonathan Blake and Lee Tiedrich, "The
National Information Infrastructure Initiative and the Emergence of the
Electronic Superhighway", Federal Communications Law Journal,
vol. 46, no. 3.11. Already dated review of three 1994 legislative initiatives,
but contains a useful overview of the policy issues. Read Section II.A.1.
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Center for Democracy and Technology, "Summary
of the Internet Family Empowerment White Paper: How Filtering Tools
Enable Responsible Parents to Protect Their Children Online", 16 July 1997.
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Text of the
CDA
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Pamela Mandels, New York Times, Government
Defines 'Safe Harbor' Under Communications Decency Act, 8 May 1996
(Cybertimes Extra; not in print version of NYT)
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CDA Issues Page, sponsored by
the Center for Democracy and Technology
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Platform for Internet Content
Selection (PICS), a parental empowerment technology approach
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Complaint
filed separately by the ACLU
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Steve Silberman, Defending
the First Amendment in the Global Public Square, HotWired magazine,
1996.
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Copyright and intellectual property
protection
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Required:
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Further Starting Points:
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Arnold P. Lutzker, EXECUTIVE
SUMMARY FOR THE LIBRARY AND EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY of the Commerce Department's
White Paper on National and Global Information Infrastructure
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NII Copyright Protection Act of 1995, S.1284
(1995), introduced by Senators Hatch and Leahy
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Litman, Jessica. "Copyright
Law and Electronic Access to Information" First Monday 4
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The Compuserve
GIF (LZW) licensing controversy (Hypermail archive)
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Letter
to U.S. Congress concerning Information Infrastructure Copyright Act
(S.1284), and ACM Model
Policy on Electronic Copyright
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European Commission Green Paper on copyright: Summary,
and Full Text
(in Word for Windows format), and Status
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Pamela Samuelson's critique
of the NII Intellectual Property report
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Samuelson, Pamela, "Software Compatibility and the Law," Communications
of the ACM 38:8 (August 1995), pp. 15-22
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Dam, Kenneth, "Some Economic Considerations in the Intellectual Property
Protection of Software," The Journal of Legal Studies XXIV:2
(June 1995), pp. 321-377.
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Biederman, Christine, "Ruling
Assists Digital Law Libraries", The New York Times -- Cybertimes
,
27 Dec 1996 (concerns a legal opinion on the Westlaw page numbers copyright
controversy)
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John B. Kennedy and Shoshanna R. Davids, "Web-Site
Agreements Do Not Wrap Up IP Rights", National Law Journal (p.
C03, col. 1), October 23, 1995
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W. Edward Steinmueller, "The
Economics of Production and Distribution of User-Specific Information via
Digital Networks", in The Economics of Information Networks,
C. Antonelli, ed. (Elsevier, 1992)
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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Princeton
University Press, et al., v. Michigan Document Services, 1996 FED App.
0046P (6th Cir.), File: 96a0046p.06, 12 Feb 1996
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Archives and Directories:
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Electronic FOIA: Public records and private information
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Required:
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David A. Wallace, "Computerized Government Information and the U.S. Freedom
of Information Act: History and Current Status." Paper presented at the
Association of Canadian Archivists Annual Meeting, Halifax, Nova Scotia,
May 1998.
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U.S. House of Representatives. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology,
Letter from Howard Wolpe, Chairman, Subcommittee on Investigations and
Oversight to Richard Truly, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, February 26, 1992. [See especially attached NASA memo
entitled "Suggestions for Anticipating Requests Under Freedom of Information
Act."]
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Amy E. Rees, "Recent Developments Regarding the Freedom of Information
Act: A 'Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or Perhaps Both,'" Duke Law
Journal 44 (No. 6, April 1995), pp. 1183-1223.
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U.S. Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, Report
(Washington,
D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1997). Read ONLY Chapter 3, "Common Sense
Declassification and Public Access," pp. 49-74.
http://www.fas.org/sgp/library/moynihan/.
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Further starting points:
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Anderson, Terry, "My Paper Prison: The Black Bars of this Cell Run Horizontally
through the Records of My Life," New York Times Magazine (April
4, 1993), pp. 35+
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Bailey, R. Kevin, " 'Did I Miss Anything?': Excising the National Security
Council from FOIA Coverage," Duke Law Journal 46 (No. 6, April 1997),
pp. 1475-1517.
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Brown, Thomas Elton, "The Freedom of Information Act in the Information
Age: The Electronic Challenge to the People's Right to Know," American
Archivist 58 (Spring 1995), pp. 202-211.
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Cate, Fred H., D. Annette Fields, and James K. McBain, "The Right to Privacy
and the Publicís Right to Know: The Central Purpose of the Freedom
of Information Act," Administrative Law Review 46 (Winter 1994),
pp. 41-74.
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Carome, Patrick J., and Thomas S. Sussman (eds.), "American Bar Association
Symposium on FOIA 25th Anniversary (May 21, 1991, Washington, D.C.)," Government
Information Quarterly 9 (No. 3), pp. 223-265.
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Gellman, Robert, "I Predict
E-FOIA Will Slow Down Agency Responses," Government Computer News
(November
18, 1996).
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Relyea, Harold C., "Freedom of Information Revisited." In Peter Hernon,
Charles R. McClure, and Harold C. Relyea (eds.), Federal Information
Policies in the 1990s: Views and Perspectives (Norwood, New Jersey:
Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1996), pp. 183-210.
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Sprehe, Timothy, "E-FOIA:
Mixed Bag of Access Benefits and Legal Loopholes," Federal Computer
Week (January 6, 1997).
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Theoharis, Athan G. (ed.), A Culture of Secrecy: The Government Versus
the People's Right to Know (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas,
1998).
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Directories and Archives:
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Local vs. long distance competition
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Required:
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David Teece, "Telecommunications
in Transition: Unbundling, Reintegration, and Competition".
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Telecommunications
Act of 1996 (HTML version of completed legislation, with hypertext
index, links to conference report, summaries, and related materials)
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Jonathan Blake and Lee Tiedrich, "The
National Information Infrastructure Initiative and the Emergence of the
Electronic Superhighway", Federal Communications Law Journal,
vol. 46, no. 3. Already dated review of three 1994 legislative initiatives,
but contains a useful online overview of the MFJ. Read Section II.A.3
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Gong, J. and Srinagesh, P., "The
Economics of Layered Networks"
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On-line resources from the MFJ Task Force.
Look for current status of bill, summary of provisions: materials here
are constantly changing.
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Further starting points:
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Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, Lecture
notes on antitrust and telecomm reform
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U.S. Congress, "Joint Explanatory
Report of the Committee of Conference" on the telecom reform bill
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Wall Street Journal, "Telecommunications
Reports", 20 March 1995. Collection of articles providing background
and context for the 1995-96 telecom reform bill
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AT?T, "Local Service
Overview", report on AT?T's efforts to compete in local telephony markets
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Peter Huber, "The
Myth of the Local Bottleneck", Report for the Regional Bell Operating
Companies
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William Baumol and J. Gregory Sidak, Toward
Competition in Local Telephony, chapters 2 and 3
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U.S. Office of Technology Assessment, Electronic
Enterprises: Looking to the Future , June 1994, pp. 73-79 ("Option
C"). Copy with figures on reserve.
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Economides, N. and L. White, "Compatibility,
Networks and Antitrust", Working Paper, Stern School of Management,
NYU, 1994. Also on reserve.
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Internet telephony: revolution or aberration?
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Universal access ? cross-subsidy
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Required:
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Further resources:
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Info war and security
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Cryptography and trade policy
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Computational markets; digital libraries
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Required:
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Michael Wellman, "A
Market-Oriented Programming Environment and its Application to Distributed
Multicommodity Flow Problems,"
Journal of Artificial Intelligence
Research 1 (1993).
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M. Miller and K. Drexler, "Markets
and Computation: Agoric Open Systems," in The Ecology of Computation,
B. Huberman, ed. (Elsevier, 1988).
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Agorics, Inc., "What
is an Auction?"
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Association of Research Libraries, Definition
and Purposes of a Digital Library
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UM Digital
Library Project, Proposal Executive Summary and online materials
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Further starting points:
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MacKie-Mason, J., Lecture
notes on Computational Markets and Digital Libraries (PDF format)
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Chris Avery, Paul Resnick, and Richard Zeckhauser, "The
Market for Evaluations"
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T. Mullen and M. Wellman, "A
simple computational market for network information services," First
International Conference on Multiagent Systems , June 1995.
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Onsale, Inc., commercial online auction
house (view real-time, ongoing auctions)
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Miller, M. and K. E. Drexler, "Markets
and Computation: Agoric Open Systems"
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IEEE Computer Special
Issue on Digital Libraries, May 1996
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Brian Kahin, "Institutional
and Policy Issues in the Development of the Digital Library"
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Pricing information goods, electronic publishing
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Required:
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"The
Economy of Ideas", John Perry Barlow, Wired , 1994
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Hal Varian, "Pricing
Information Goods", presented at The Future of Mathematical Communications
Conference, Berkeley, 30 November -- 3 December 1994
-
Andrew Odlyzko, "Tragic
loss or good riddance? The impending demise of traditional scholarly journals",
Intern. J. Human-Computer Studies (1995).
-
Neil Calkins, "An
Overview of Electronic Mathematics Journals", presented at The Future
of Mathematical Communications Conference, Berkeley, 30 November -- 3 December
1994
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Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, Lecture
notes on economics of electronic publishing
-
Further Starting Points:
-
Fleming, Matthew, "The Obsolescence
of the Hard Copy: Digital Publishing, the Internet and the Scientific Research
Community", memo written for SPP 744, Winter 1996
-
Dyson, Esther, "Intellectual
Value", Wired, 1995
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Bailey, Charles, "Network-Based
Electronic Publishing of Scholarly Works: A Selective Bibliography",
The
Public-Access Computer Systems Review, vol. 6, no. 1 (1995), version
25: 9/16/96
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Proceedings of the Future of Mathematical
Communications Conference, Berkeley, 30 November -- 3 December 1994;
see especially "Background
Materials"
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W. Goffe and B. Parks, The
Future Information Structure in Economics
-
UM Academic Outreach Program, Bibliography
on Electronic Publishing
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Gary Taubes, "Science
Journals Go Wired", Science, Volume 271, Number 5250, Issue
of 9 February 1996, p. 764
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Gary Taubes, "Electronic
Preprints Point the Way to 'Author Empowerment'", Science, Volume
271, Number 5250, Issue of 9 February 1996, p. 767
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Off-line
materials on digital publishing
-
National Research Council, Realizing
the Information Future. Read Chapter
3, Section 6.
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University of Michigan Press, The
Journal of Electronic Publishing
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Colin Day, "Economics
of Electronic Publishing"
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Colin Day, "Pricing
Electronic Products"
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Content Provision
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Required:
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J. MacKie-Mason, S. Shenker and H. Varian, "Service
Architecture and Content Provision: The Network Provider as Editor",
forthcoming in Telecommunications Policy (1996)
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D. Clark, S. Shenker and L. Zhang, "Services
or Infrastructure: Why we need a network service model". In Proceedings
of Workshop on Community Networking, pp. 145-149.
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Lanham, Richard. "The
Economics of Attention", in The Research Library the Day After Tomorrow,
Proceedings of the 124th Annual Meeting of the Association of Research
Libraries, Austin, TX, May 18-20, 1994.
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Communications Futures Project, Emerging
Communications Services, chapters 5 and 6
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Further resources:
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Electronic commerce and digital money
-
Required:
-
Further resources:
-
MacKie-Mason, J. Lecture
notes on digital money
-
MacKie-Mason, J. and K. White "Evaluating
and Selecting Digital Payment Mechanisms", forthcoming in G. Rosston
and D. Waterman, Telecommunications Policy Research (tentative title)
(Lawrence Erlbaum: 1997).
-
Camp, Jean "Privacy
and Electronic Payment Systems"
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Hardy, N. and E. D. Tribble, "The
Digital Silk Road". A short, easy-to-read description on one proposal
for electronic money.
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Neumann, B. Clifford, "Security,
Payment, and Privacy for Network Commerce", IEEE Journal of Selected
Areas in Communications, 13:8, October 1995
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Tanaka, Tatsuo, "Possible
Economic Consequences of Digital Cash"
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Kittock, James and Ketchpel, Steven, "The
Interactions Involved in Existing Internet Payment Systems"
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Mark Bernkopf, "Electronic
Cash and Monetary Policy", First Monday, 1996.
-
U.S. Congress, House of Representatives, Hearings
on "The Future of Money", 1995-1996
-
U.S. Office of Technology Assessment, Electronic
Enterprises: Looking to the Future
, June 1994, pp. 139-150 ("Option
A"). Copy with figures on reserve.
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"NetCash"A
research paper on NetCash, a semi-anonymous digital currency proposal
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NetBill: Carnegie-Mellon
Internet billing server project (many links to other digital currency sites)
-
First Virtual:An on-line transactions
billing company
-
First Virtual Hypermail
archive. Email discussions of First Virtual billing scheme, and Internet
commerce schemes in general.
-
Directory
of resources on Internet Commerce
-
National Information Infrastructure: What role for
government?
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Required:
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Further Starting Points:
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Characteristics of Information
Networks -- Overview
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Required:
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Jonathan Blake and Lee Tiedrich, "The
National Information Infrastructure Initiative and the Emergence of the
Electronic Superhighway", Federal Communications Law Journal,
vol. 46, no. 3 (June 1994). Already dated review of three 1994 legislative
initiatives, but contains a useful overview industry alliances and multi-jurisdiction
regulatory problems. Read Sections I.A,B,C; III.C,D,E
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Andrew Barrett, FCC Commissioner, "Shifting
Foundations: The Regulation of Telecommunications in an Era of Change",
Federal
Communications Law Journal, vol. 46, no. 1 (December, 1993). Introduction
to multimedia convergence in the marketplace, and the multi-jurisdiction
regulatory problems.
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Further Starting Points:
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Nicholas Economides, "The
Economics of Networks", Working Paper, Stern School of Business, NYU,
November 1994. Also on reserve.
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Liebowitz, S. J. and S. E. Margolis, "Network Externality: An Uncommon
Tragedy," Journal of Economic Perspectives
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Nicholas Economides and Charles Himmelberg, "Network
Externalities and Critical Mass", Working Paper, Stern School of Business,
NYU, 1994
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Economides, N. and C. Himmelberg, "Critical
Mass and Network Size with Application to the US Fax Market"
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Luis M. B. Cabral and Antonio P. N. Leite, "Network
Consumption Externalities: The Case of Portugese Telex Service", in
The
Economics of Information Networks, C. Antonelli, ed. (Elsevier, 1992)
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Church, J. and N. Gandal, "Network Effects, Software Provision, and Standardization,"
The
Journal of Industrial Economics, XL (1992), pp. 85-103.
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Arthur, W. Brian, "Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns, and Lock-in
by Historical Events," The Economic Journal 99 (1989), pp.
116-131.
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Arthur, W. Brian, "Positive Feedbacks in the Economy," Scientific American,
Feb. 1990, pp. 92-99.
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Katz, M. and C. Shapiro, "Technology Adoption in the Presence of Network
Externalities", Journal of Political Economy 94 (1986), pp.
822-841.
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Gilbert, R. "Symposium on Compatibility: Incentives and Market Structure,"
The
Journal of Industrial Economics" XL (1992), pp. 1--8.
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Technologies
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Starting Points:
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Business Week, "The
Information Revolution: Enabling Technologies", 1994 Special Bonus
Issue, pp. 52-78.
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Business Week, "Wonder
Chips: How They'll Make Computing Power Ultrafast and Ultracheap",
4 July 1994, pp. 86--92.
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Web ProForum, "Voice
over Packet Tutorial"
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Corning, Inc., "How Fiber
Works"
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Intel, Technology
Briefing: Moore's Law
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George Gilder, "The
Coming of the Fibersphere", Forbes ASAP, 7 December 1993
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George Gilder, "The
New Rule of the Wireless", Forbes ASAP, 29 March 1993
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George Gilder, "The
Bandwidth Tidal Wave", Forbes ASAP, 5 December 1994
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Horn, Robert J., Technical
critique of "infinite" bandwidth (note: I have not had a technically
qualified person check the details in this analysis)
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Series on optical networking
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Wilson, Carol, "Optical
Networking 101", Inter@ctive Week, 8 June 1998.
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Wilson, Carol, "Optical
Networking Today", Inter@ctive Week, 8 June 1998.
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Wilson, Carol, "Optical
Networking Tomorrow", Inter@ctive Week, 8 June 1998.
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Wilson, Carol, "Catch
The Metro Line", Inter@ctive Week, 8 June 1998.
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Dawson, Fred, "Optical
Networking in the Future," Inter@ctive Week, 8 June 1998.
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Dawson, Fred, "MEMs
the Word," Inter@ctive Week, 8 June 1998.
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Blake, Pat, "Wireless
data is once again riding the crest of popularity, this time on the tidal
wave of the world's largest information hub: the Internet," Telephony,
19 August 1996. A survey of various wireless access technologies for the
Internet and their competitive prospects.
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Arthur Ross, "CDMA Topics"
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Qualcomm, Inc., "CDMA
-- How does it work?" and "CDMA
-- Features and Benefits"
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Cable News Network, Inc., Sultry
screen star was also brilliant inventor, 9 March 1997 (Actress Hedy
Lamarr invented and patented spread spectrum radio transmission)
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Snyder, Beth, "A
question mark for copper", Telephony, 19 August 1996. A survey
of ADSL technologies and their prospects for increasing data capacity on
copper twisted pair.
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Dunn, Ashley, "Quantum Computing I - IV", New York Times -- CyberTimes,
14 Aug - 4 Sept 1996.
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A geodesic network?
-
Required:
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Further Starting Points:
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Lynch, Karen, "T95
Focus: Wireless Local Loop", Telecom95
Daily Online News, 22 Sept 1995
-
David Kline, "Cable
vs. Telco: Who's Zooming Whom?" HotWired, July 1995
-
Brock Meeks, "High
Court to Decide Telco Cable Ban", Inter@ctive Week, 10 July
1995
-
John Clendenin, CEO, BellSouth Corporation, "Clear
the Path to Competition, Clear the Path for Everyone", Remarks to the
NARUC Annual Convention, Reno, Nevada, 14 November 1994
-
William Baumol and J. Gregory Sidak, Toward
Competition in Local Telephony, chapter 1
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Lewis, T. and D. Sappington, "Access Pricing and Industry Architecture,"
Technical Report, Department of Economics, University of Florida, September
1995.
-
Eli Noam, "A Theory
for the Instability of Public Telecommunications Systems", in
The
Economics of Information Networks, C. Antonelli, ed. (Elsevier, 1992)
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Interconnection
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Required:
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David Gabel and David Weiman, "Historical
Perspectives on Interconnection Between Competing Local Exchange Companies",
Yale University working paper
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U.S. Office of Technology Assessment, Electronic
Enterprises: Looking to the Future , June 1994, pp. 64-70 ("Option
A"). Copy with figures on reserve
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Padmanabhan Srinagesh, "Internet
Cost Structures and Interconnection Agreements", in Toward a Competitive
Telecommunication Industry: Selected Papers from the 1994 Telecommunications
Policy Research Conference, G. W. Brock, ed. (New Jersey: Lawrence
Erlbaum, 1995). Also forthcoming online at The
Journal of Electronic Publishing
-
Further starting points:
-
Brock, G. "The Economics of Interconnection", Teleport Communications Group,
April 1995.
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Simnett, Spacek and Srinagesh, "An Economic Analysis of the Claimed Applicability
of the Bill and Keep Interconnection Arrangement to Local Telecommunications
Competition," 1995, Comment on Brock's "The Economics of Interconnection"
-
Koichiro Hayashi, "From
Network Externalities to Interconnection", in The Economics of Information
Networks, C. Antonelli, ed., (Elsevier, 1992)
-
Economides, N. and G. Woroch, "Benefits
and Pitfalls of Network Interconnection", 1992.
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Standards & Innovation
-
Required:
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Articles from Kahin et al. book
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Evagora, Andreas, "Standards:
New World Order", Telecom '95 Daily Online News, 25 September 1995
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Besen and Farrell, JEP 1994
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Appropriate and Inappropriate Network Use
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Service Architecture Issues
-
Required:
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Further Starting Points:
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Software patents
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Year 2000
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Who owns personal information?
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Children's TV
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Cable TV pricing and competition
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