[IP] Outline of Keynote talk at the ISART (rave reviews given ) -- full PPT available on request
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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