Files in this Archive
- riaa_v_verizon_complaint.html
- PDF document of the RIAA v Verizon complaint (August 21, 2002)
- riaa_v_backbone_dismissal.html
- Dismissal of RIAA v Backbone providers (August 21, 2002)
- riaa_v_backbone_complaint.pdf
- Court complaint of RIAA v Backbone providers regarding blocking of listen4ever.com
- riaa_v_backbone_memorandum.pdf
- Court memorandum of RIAA v Backbone providers regarding blocking of listen4ever.com
- 1996_12_schreiber_dtv.comments
- Comments of William F. Schreiber to the
FCC regarding recent, and possibly illegal, FCC agreements with
industry on digital television (DTV) standards, which appear to be
senseless and counter to the public interest.
- cable_net_resources.faq
- Frequently Asked questions about Cable TV
Resources on the Net, compiled by Multichannel News. Updated 9/94
- cix_isp_telecom_policy_95.paper
- Commercial Internet eXchange (CIX)
white paper on Internet Service Provider (ISP) telecommunications policy
framework issues. March 1995.
- coalition_public_nii.letter
- letter to Sens. Hollings (D-SC) and Inouye
(D-HI), with accompanying press release, asking them to reserve capacity
on the NII for noncommercial educational and informational services
(5/12/93)
- corp_public_cybercast.proposal
- April 1993 article " TOWARD THE
FORMATION OF A CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC CYBERCASTING" by T.M Grundner
which outlines the need, structure, and rationale for a "Corporation
for Public Cybercasting" -- an organization which would do for
public access information age services what the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting did for public radio and tv.
- darkfiber.article
- Wired interview with George Gilder (Wired 1.4)
- dc_bogeymen_gilder.article
- Series of articles by George Gilder about
the "monsters," as perceived by the government, in the communication and
information industries
- democracy_and_network_interconnectivity.paper
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- democracy_online.article
- Evan Schwartz's Wired 2.01 article discussing
the concept of an Electronic Town Hall
- econ_dereg_effects_wefa.paper
- WEFA paper on the effects of
telecommunications deregualation (7/93)
- ftp_rboc_nii.announce
- Announcement of an ftp server maintained by the
Baby Bells
- gii_concerns_farber_021895_eff.speech
- "Living in the Global Information
Infrastructure" -- a sppech by David Farber, 2/18/95
- gii_expression_letter.eff
- A letter from EFF and many other non-profits
to Vice President Al Gore regarding GII priorities and freedom of
expression. (2/16/95)
- havenots_forum_052494.transcript
- Unofficial transcript from a National
Press Foundation Forum (5/24/94) "Is There a Place for Have-Nots in
Cyberspace?"
- highway_to_where_moore.article
- 1995 article by Dr. Gale Moore, "Highway
to Where? The Real Questions Are Social Not Technical", outlining
social implications of telepresence and other communications technologies.
- hiways_of_mind.article
- Detailed article by Roget Karraker,
originally published in Whole Earth Review Spring 1991 (issue #70), on
the history of the internet and possibilities of future development and
organization
- ii.sourcebook
- Table of contents and information about the Information
Infrastructure Sourcebook, published by Harvard's Kennedy School of
Government (note dated 12/17/93)
- iitf_principles_comments.eff
- EFF comments on the IITF's "Principles for
Providing and Using Personal Information"
- info_railroad_usenix_barlow_eff.speech
- John Perry Barlow's 1/17/94
speech to the winter 1993 USENIX Conference about the internet, the
"highway" metaphor (which he considers inappropriate), and the future
of the internet, as it is viewed by the government, industry, and himself
- infobahn_jackboots_barlow_eff.article
- John Perry Barlow's 2/9/94
article in Wired 2.04 abou the Clipper chip, with a comprehensive
background on the controversy, and some excellent arguments against the
Clipper chip
- jefferson_ascendant_post_eff.article
- "Jefferson Ascendant" article by
EFF Policy Fellow David Post, 1995. A look at the warring Jeffersonian
& Hamiltonian political philosophies behind todays battle between civil
libertarians and authoritarian regulators over the fate of the Internet.
- labor_dereg_effects.paper
- paper from the Economic Policy Institute
entitled "Good Jobs at Good Wages: the Characteristics of Jobs Created by
Lifting Line-of-Business-Restrictions in Telecommunications for Baby
Bells." The authors contend that lifting such restrictions would create
many new jobs with good benefits
- latino_ii_rivera.brief
- policy brief, "Latinos and the Information
Superhighway," from the Tomas Rivera Center (9/94)
- life_after_tv_gilder.article
- George Gilder article "Life After
Television," in which he discusses the race between computer companies
and cable television companies to provide access to the "information
superhighway," and whhy he thinks that computer companies are far better
prepared to do so
- net_subsidy_schickele.paper
- paper by Sandra Schickele in which she
argues that the free market will not provide an adequate supply of net
services without government subsidies
- new_delhi.declaration
- Declaration of principles of the participants of
the Symposium on New Technologies and the Democratisation of
Audiovisual Communication, which took place in New Delhi from 2/9/94 to
2/12/94
- nii_articles.note
- Data from USA Today: the number of articles, by
month, about the "information highway" in 150 US newspapers in 1993
- nii_competition_telco_94.paper
- Paper from the Council on
Competitiveness entitled "Competition Policy: Unlocking the National
Information Infrastructure." Also contains a press release regarding the
paper
- nii_kapor_berman_eff_nyt.article
- Article from the New York TImes
(11/24/93) by Mitchell Kapor and Jerry Berman, advocating the "open
platform," allowing every person access to the "information superhighway"
as both a consumer and a potential producer
- nii_kapor_eff_wired.article
- Wired 1.3 article by Mitchell Kapor
entitled "Where is the Digital Highway Really Heading?" Kapor details
steps already taken toward implementing the National Information
Infrastructure, and the role the government should play in developing the
rest of the NII
- nist_frame.html
- Early NIST paper on the framework for forming a national
information infrastructure.
- pac_94_contributions.list
- 1994 CyberWire Dispatch about communications
industry PAC donations to senators and representatives
- pac_contributions.article
- 1994 Cyberwire Dispatch by Brock Meeks about
communications PAC donations leading up to the 1994 congressional
election
- pub-int_summit_94.summary
- Summary of the proceedings of the NII Public
Interest Summit (3/29/94), posted to the net by an audience member as
the summit progressed
- pub-int_summit_94_summary.eff
- EFF Summary of the proceedings of the NII
Public Interest Summit (3/29/94). For the most part, the same
information as in pub-int_summit_94.summary but more formal
- rboc_revenue.chart
- graph from Telecommunications Magazine showing the
relative size of the RBOCs
- rickard_nii.article
- exceprt from a Boardwatch Magazine editorial by
Jack Rickard in which he rails against most government involvement in the
development of the NII, health care, and especially in the field of
encryption
- tbs_v_fcc_must-carry.decision
- Supreme Court decision in the Turner
Broadcasting System, Inc., et al., v. FCC
- technopolicy_eur.article
- Article by John Browning from Wired 1.2 in
which he discusses European (specifically French, English, and German)
industrial and technological subsidies, and the mixed results that they
have achieved, and the lessons to be learned from European mistakes that
should be applied to American technological policy
- telecom_pubs.list
- list of telecommunications publications and how to
reach them
- tv_interactive.article
- Article by Jules Marshall from Wired 1.5 about
an interactive television experiment based in Germany, the sucess of its
first attempt at interactive TV, and the people designing the experiment
- uswest_contact.list
- contact list of telecommunications corporations in
the western US
- video_dialtone_berman_eff_fcc_020392.testimony
- Jerry Berman's testimony
before the FCC regarding telephone company/cable television
cross-ownershiip rules. Berman stresses the importance of two-way
information flow, both to the home and from the home, the importance of
allowing technological change to evolve, rather than implementing a rigid
network that may be unable to accomodate future innovations, and the
importance of ensuring equitable access to the NII.
- video_dialtone_eff.article
- position paper by Daniel Weitzner explaining
that video dialtone will use market forces to bring net access to more
people
- virtual_frontier_barlow_eff.article
- "Jack In, Young Pioneer," by John
Perry Barlow, The Inside Passage, 8/11/94. A brief, wonderfully amusing
and insightful article comparing cyberspace the the American West of days
past, but optimistically suggesting that the electronic frontier will
never be civilized.
- wolf_iway_robber_barons.article
- Article by Joshua Wolf Shenk,
originally published in The Washington Monthly, comparing cable and
communications giants of today to the railway robber barons of the
nineteenth century
Subdirectories in This Archive
- Commerce_online/
- directory of information on electronic commerce, online
advertising, digital transactions, and related issues.
- DNS_control/
- directory of info on disputes over the control, use,
ownership and evolution of the Internet top level Domain Name System
(DNS) and generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs).
- Foreign_and_local/
- directory of info on information infrastructure issues
at the state, local, regional, global, and non-US national levels.
- Govt_docs/
- directory of government documents, including agency statements,
testimony by executive branch
- Internet_telephony/
- directory of info on the development of, and disputes
surrounding, "voice on the Net" or Internet telephony.
- ISDN/
- directory of information on ISDN (Integrated Services Digital
Network) telecom technology & policy.
- NREN_NSFNET_NPN/
- directory of info on NSFNet and the NREN (National
Research & Education Network) and NPN (National Public Network) plan
(a sort of prototype "data superhighway" idea) from the late 80s and
early 90s. Primarily of historical interest.
- Old/
- directory of outdated, but still historically interesting, material
on EFF's Open Platform initiative, and GII/NII issues in general.
- Regional_rural_edu/
- (a.k.a. Academic_edu/, Tele-education/) directory of
files about academic, educational, regional, and rural networking.
- Taxation/
- Directory of information about attempts to tax, or prevent the
taxation of, Internet and online services.
- Telecommuting_telework/
- directory of info telecommunting, telework,
working at home via networking, and the social, economic, technical
and political issues related to this shift in employment.
- Telemedicine/
- directory of info on distance medicine, medical networking.
- Trusted Computing/
- Wireless_cellular_radio/
- directory of info on networking and
telecommunications via cellular technology, packet radio, satellite,
and other wireless techniques; concentrates on political, economic and
social, rather than technical, issues.
Related On-Site Resources
- Censorship
- link to directory of info on GII/NII censorship & free
expression issues
- Comm_Decency_Act
- link to directory on the Exon/Coats "Communications Decency Act" and
other Internet censorship legislation
- Email_GII_NII
- link to directory of info on GII/NII and other email/electronic
communications privacy and security issues.
- Net Culture, Information & Tools
EFF Archive
Links to Related Off-Site Resources
- Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) US Govt. Server
- National
Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA)
US Govt. WWW Server
- Patent & Trademark
Office (PTO) US Govt.
US Govt. NII & Intellectual Propery WWW Server
-
Bell Atlantic's CyberLibrary WWW Server
- Pacific Bell WWW Server
- NII Testbed WWW
Server
- Internet
Society
- Home page
-
Corporation for Research & Educational Networking (CREN)
- www Home page
- Online
Commercial Services
- Index of links (this is from 1994 and is included for historical
purposes).
- Framework for
NII Services
- NIST Report
- Dan Kegel's ISDN
Page
- Telecommunications
Information
- Telematrix Archive
- Government Policy
& the Information Superhighway
- (from the National Library of Australia. Focusses on Aus. govt.
policy, but also features several other countries.