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Stanford Spectrum Conference
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 22:30:15 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: "Faulhaber, Gerald" <faulhabe () wharton upenn edu> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 20:32:24 -0500 To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: RE: [CYBERIA] Stanford Spectrum Conference Dave -- I think you and I agree wholeheartedly that posing the intellectual debate as "spectrum v. commons" is probably bad scholarship. It is the way legal scholars like to tee things up, so I guess we need to fit the Law School model. But a big part of our effort has been to get over this "us versus them" character of the debate. It's time to quit the theological arguments and get down to serious work helping policy makers deal with the real world. I could agree more with this note. Professor Gerald Faulhaber <http://rider.wharton.upenn.edu/~faulhabe> Business and Public Policy Department Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104 -----Original Message----- From: Dave Farber [mailto:dave () farber net] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 9:55 AM To: Faulhaber, Gerald Subject: FW: [CYBERIA] Stanford Spectrum Conference ------ Forwarded Message From: Douglas Galbi <DGALBI () FCC GOV> Reply-To: Law & Policy of Computer Communications <CYBERIA-L () LISTSERV AOL COM> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:43:00 -0500 To: CYBERIA-L () LISTSERV AOL COM Subject: Re: [CYBERIA] Stanford Spectrum Conference Radio regulation, also commonly called spectrum policy, looks to me like the most important public policy issue for the future of communications. Is it really necessary to frame discussion in terms of a binary opposition between "property" and "commons"? Doesn't this binary opposition invoke some tragic aspects of twentieth century European intellectual history -- bad thinking that greatly hurt the lives of hundred of millions of persons, if not billions? The report of the FCC's Spectrum Policy Task Force makes a more original intellectual contribution. Its major findings point to the need for "more flexible and market-oriented regulatory models" and it notes, "Such models must be based on clear definitions of the rights and responsibilities of both licensed and unlicensed spectrum users, particularly with respect to interference and interference protection." I hope the Stanford Spectrum Conference will contribute to discussing how to establish clear, enforceable rights. It seems to me that many persons know something about how clear, enforceable rights are established, i.e.how rights are actually defined through various practices, including personal actions, discussion, and public writings of various levels of solemness. Extending workable approaches to radio shouldn't be too difficult. For some ideas for discussion, see "Revolutionary Ideas for Radio Regulation," available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=316380 and at http://www.galbithink.org
Lauren Gelman 01/29/03 06:52PM >>>
Spectrum Policy: Property or Commons? Stanford Law School March 1-2, 2003 Sponsored by: Thomas Hazlett, the Manhattan Institute, and Lawrence Lessig of the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society Full conference details and registration at: http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/spectrum/ CLE credit available! Highlights: **A moot court where "property" proponents Thomas Hazlett and Professor Gerald R. Faulhaber will debate "commons" proponents Professor Lawrence Lessig and Professor Yochai Benkler about which architecture most effectively promotes efficiency and innovation. This moot court will honor Nobel Prize winning economist Ronald Coase, who criticized the FCC's spectrum policy in 1959, arguing that rules preempting private ownership of spectrum led to catastrophic inefficiencies in the market. The Judges will include FCC Chairman Michael Powell, renowned economist Harold Demsetz, and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski. **Professor Yochai Benkler, from NYU Law School, presenting a proposal to treat spectrum as a commons with comments by Professors Gerald R. Faulhaber, former FCC Chief economist, Professor David Farber, former FCC technologist, Professor Howard Shelanski, former FCC Chief Economist, and J. Gregory Sidak, Director of AEI's Telecommunications Deregulation Project. **Presentations of two property based proposals for regulating spectrum, including "A Proposal for a Rapid Transition to Market Allocation of Spectrum" from the FCC Office of Plans and Policy and a paper by Thomas Hazlett of the Manhattan Institute, with comments by Dewayne Hendricks, CEO of the The Dandin Group, Tim Shepard, and Kevin Werbach, former Counsel for New Technology Policy at the FCC. **Dr. David P. Reed explaining what's different about emerging spectrum technologies? Why do they present new regulatory issues? what's new, and just why that should matter. **Lunch panel with presentations on a number of business models for utilizing spectrum under both property and commons regulatory regimes including mesh networks and Community wireless networking. ** Sunday Workshop on "Spectrum Etiquette" where participants will explore whether the unlicensed spectrum band needs etiquette rules at this time? Or should the FCC leave the space alone? Full conference details and registration at: http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/spectrum/ Registration: Corporate ($695) Academic/Non-Profit/Government ($195) Student ($50) Press (free, but must register) CLE credit available -- Lauren Gelman, Esq. Assistant Director Center for Internet and Society Stanford Law School Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way Stanford, CA 94305-8610 (ph) 650-724-3358 (fax) 650-723-4426 ********************************************************************** For Listserv Instructions, see http://www.lawlists.net/cyberia Off-Topic threads: http://www.lawlists.net/mailman/listinfo/cyberia-ot Need more help? Send mail to: Cyberia-L-Request () listserv aol com ********************************************************************** gelman () stanford edu ********************************************************************** For Listserv Instructions, see http://www.lawlists.net/cyberia Off-Topic threads: http://www.lawlists.net/mailman/listinfo/cyberia-ot Need more help? Send mail to: Cyberia-L-Request () listserv aol com ********************************************************************** ------ End of Forwarded Message ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To unsubscribe or update your address, click http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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