=========================================================================== RED CIENTIFICA PERUANA =========================================================================== Estimados amigos, Como todos ustedes saben uno de los problemas mas importantes en la region es la legislacion acerca de telecomunicaciones y que es lo que se esta haciendo - preparando - en los paises desarrollados acerca de este tema preparando el avance comercial en Internet. Les mando algunos articulos que aparecieron en NETWORKS AND COMMUNITY : December 26, 1993 compilados por: Sam Sternberg samsam@vm1.yorku.ca, a quien pueden solicitar mayor informacion. De todas maneras esta informacion esta alma- cenada en nuestros servidores de informacion ( tarifas ) y en nuestro gopher. Esta seleccion ( arbitraria que he hecho personalmente ) tiene los siguientes articulos: 1. LEGISLATION & REGULATION 2. SUPERHIGHWAY BULLETIN BOARD. The White House Information 3. A VIDEO FROM THE INTERNATIONAL FREE-NET CONFERENCE held in Ottawa 4. ISCNEWS. It will distribute the News Releases and Fact Sheets 5. A NEW LIST HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED TO FACILITATE DISCUSSION ABOUT TELECOMMUNICATIONS REGULATION 6. EVENTS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- LEGISLATION & REGULATION FUNDING ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission has launched a public inquiry on how to regulate the telecommunications industry during the transition to effective competition. [ Interested readers should take advantage of this opportunity to monitor a progressive regulatory agency. State Agencies will be critical players in the implementation of Federal regs around the NII.] As part of this investigation, Commission staff has prepared a discussion paper which explores developing trends in communications technology and market structure and defines basic policy objectives that a new telecommunications regulatory structure should accomplish. Traditionally, Commission inquiries have been open to the public but have rarely gone beyond comment from the regulated industries and their major customers. The discussion paper contends that "in a converged marketplace, local telephone service will inevitably become simply one component of a multi- media service package." Thus, the Commission is actively seeking a wider range of comment from existing and potential communication network providers as well as informed consumers. The discussion paper, "Alternative Regulation of U S West: Toward a New Paradigm" eschews the current popular fascination with specific technology deployments. Instead of defining an outcome where customers pay for services they may not want, the Commission's paper believes the state should foster a communications marketplace where the customer has a wide array of choices from competitive providers. Essentially, the message is that the ultimate and only bottleneck should be the limitations of the human mind. First round of comments are due by January 31, 1994. The Notice of Inquiry, with the associated discussion paper on the Alternative Form of Regulation, is available via anonymous FTP on the Internet. Connect to the host at: FTP.GOVT.WASHINGTON.EDU, cd to the directory: /wutc, then: get NOI_ON_THE_AFOR.txt -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUPERHIGHWAY BULLETIN BOARD. The White House Information Infrastructure Task Force has set up a "superhighway" bulletin board designed to give the public access to schedules, committee reports, and minutes of task force meetings. It will also include documents on the creation of the NII. [ This will be a godsend for those of us interested in following the progress of the NII at the federal level.] You can connect with this system by: 1 - telnetting to: iitf.doc.gov (198.49.199.20 login: gopher 2 - gophering to: iitf.doc.gov 3 - dialing: 1-202-501-1920 ----------------------------- A VIDEO FROM THE INTERNATIONAL FREE-NET CONFERENCE held in Ottawa last August is now available for FREE. The video was produced by Thomas Whalen, Andrew Patrick, & Alex Black, it contains 3 segments: 1) "A Conference Summary" (10 minutes) - describes the purpose and themes of the conference - excerpts from speeches - interviews with participants 2) "Reflections on FreeNet Development in Canada" (4 minutes) - quotations from participants about the importance of FreeNets for Canada, and how they can develop 3) "Keynote Speeches" (67 minutes) - the entire speeches presented by: - Michael Binder, Industry & Science Canada - Peter Calamai, Ottawa Citizen - Tom Grundner, NPTN Total running time is approximately 81 minutes. It does not present an introduction to FreeNets, but rather a summary of the FreeNet conference and what was said about FreeNets. The audio for Tom Grundner's speech is poor, but usable. The tape is presentable, but not as polished as one would like. If you want a copy of the video, mail a new blank videotape (VHS format, T90 or T120 size) and a return mailing label. Send these to: Dr. Andrew Patrick Division of Behavioural Research Communications Research Centre Department of Communications 3701 Carling Ave. P.O. Box 11490, Station 'H' Ottawa, ON CANADA K2H 8S2 ------------------------------------------------- ISCNEWS. It will distribute the News Releases and Fact Sheets issued to the public by the Communications Canada section of Industry and Science Canada. The News Releases are information regarding Canadian government communications policy. The Fact Sheets contain information about developments in communications technology and applications in Canada. To subscribe to the list, send e- mail to: listserv@debra.dgbt.doc.ca in the body of the message write the command: subscribe iscnews Firstname Lastname Industry, Science Canada Gazette Archive Archives of Gazette Notices are available via FTP and Gopher FTP: debra.dgbt.doc.ca Directory: /pub/isc/iscnews ------------------------------------- A more general view of Canadian government activities and a long list of e-mail addresses for Canadian officials is available from: gopher -> copper.emr.ca -------------------------------------- A NEW LIST HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED TO FACILITATE DISCUSSION ABOUT TELECOMMUNICATIONS REGULATION on the local, state, and federal levels. Topics of immediate interest include implementation of the 1992 Cable Act, convergence in the global sense of technologies and on the corporate level of cable/telco mergers, the National Information Infrastructure (electronic superhighway) Agenda, and the future of wired and wireless networks. Any other related (or nonrelated) issue can also be raised and discussed. Anyone may subscribe:industry participants are welcome as well as regulators, academics, consumers. To subscribe to TELECOMREG --- Send the following message: SUBSCRIBE TELECOMREG YOUR NAME send to: listserver@relay.adp.wisc.edu All postings to the list should be sent to: telecomreg@relay.adp.wisc.edu EVENTS An unusual teleconference is to be held on " On Jan. 5, 3:30-5 p.m., there will be a national teleconference on the CPB grant proposal, aimed mainly at being public television and radio stations up to speed about "what are community networks". CPB has an RFP out and would like to fund 10 projects as demonstrations of online computer systems involving public television or radio stations. The stations don't have to run the systems, but I think the hope is that a dialogue will begin and partnerships will emerge as a new communications future is forged at the community level. For the purposes of the teleconference, the information is ree-Net heavy, that is, they will show the Heartland Free-Net video and Tom Grundner will be in a studio taking live calls from around the country afterward, but I have been told that is NOT to discouage non-Free-Net systems or alliances. The teleconference can be seen *only* at public television stations, So contact your local station to arrange to be present. This will not be shown on the stations broadcasts. It is only for those attending in the studio. .