IP: briefing of new CSTB report Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "Jon Eisenberg" <JEisenbe () nas edu>
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:18:57 -0500
>
> Dave--
>
> IP readers are invited to attend this event on Dec. 18...
>
> The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB)
> announces a public briefing of our just-released report Broadband:
> Bringing Home the Bits, the latest in CSTB's high-impact
> series of reports on the Internet.
>
> The briefing will feature presentations by several members
> of the expert committee that prepared the report: Nikil
> Jayant (Georgia Tech), David D. Clark (MIT), Dipankar
> Raychaudhuri (Rutgers), and Steven Wildman (Michigan State).
>
> Broadband to the home will have profound economic and social
> impacts.  But achieving that capability nationally is a goal
> that tantalizes and frustrates many in government, industry
> and communities across the country.  Progress is uneven, and
> many factors constrain it--some self-inflicted, some
> self-correcting and some warranting some kind of
> intervention.  Public debate is confounded by conflicting
> perspectives.  It is also hampered by uneven understanding
> of what broadband is and how it might be fostered.
> Recognizing these realities, CSTB's new report on
> broadband in local access networking explores what broadband
> is all about, the concepts, the technologies, the uses,
> the policy baseline and the economics.  It provides guidance
> for public policy at all levels of government and recommends
> how public and private action can help to realize the
> promise of broadband.
>
> The briefing be held on Tuesday, December 18 from 1:30-3:30
> p.m. in the Lecture Room of The National Academies, 2101
> Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.  Enter from C
> Street near 21st St.   Please note: this block of C Street is
> currently closed to vehicular traffic and there is little or
> no parking available in the area.
>
> RSVP to D.C. Drake by phone (202.334.2605) or e-mail
> (ddrake () nas edu).

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