Conference attendee may find helpful these various columns, papers, interviews, and web sites on spectrum allocation. Got a link to contribute? Please contact .
A Proposal for a Rapid Transition to Market Allocation of Spectrum by Evan Kwerel and John Williams; November 2002
Bloggers who blogged the conference:
Scott Mace's Radio Weblog. [Day 2]
Joi Ito's Web
Boing Boing, [Day 2], [Cory Doctorow]
Silicon Valley - Dan Gillmor's eJournal - The Airwaves: Open or Owned
Trip Report (Aaron Swartz: The Weblog)
Geodog's MT Weblog: Impressions of the Spectrum Policy debate
Doc Searls
Legal Theory Blog
Stuart Buck
Connected: Sarah Lai Stirland - Corante
Also see:
Joi Ito's Internet Topic Exchange [TrackBack enabled]
Wired 10.01: Broadband Cowboy, January 2002: "As Beltway bureaucrats keep America in the wireless Dark Ages, a spectrum revolt is brewing in the heart of Indian country."
Comment on FCC ET Docket No. 02-135 by Blitz and Bower [pdf]: Professor Leo Blitz and Dr. Geoffrey C. Bower, both of the University of California at Berkeley, wrote to the Federal Communications Commission regarding changes in spectrum policy and its impact on radio astronomy.
Comments Of Professors Gerald R. Faulhaber And David J. Farber Before The Federal Communications Commission , July 18, 2002
David Reed's Open Spectrum Resource Page
FCC Spectrum Task Force Home: The Spectrum Policy Task Force will assist the Commission in identifying and evaluating changes in spectrum policy that will increase the public benefits derived from the use of the radio spectrum.
TNR Online | Net Gains by Yochai Benkler and Lawrence Lessig: column from 1998.
Expert: New Technologies Blunt Government Spectrum Plan: from National Journal's Technology Daily, on the Harvard ILAW conference
New venture signals 802.11 emergence The growing popularity of wireless communication using connections based on the IEEE 802.11 or Wi-Fi wireless technology standard got a huge boost on 5 December, when AT&T, Intel, and IBM announced the formation of a joint venture whose aim to place a wireless Internet access point within five minutes of anyone in the 50 largest U.S. metropolitan areas by 2004.
Open Letter to the FCC on Spectrum Policy, by Kevin Werbach, Edventure Magazine, November 21, 2001
Open Spectrum FAQ
Open the Spectrum, by David Weinberger, Darwin Magazine
Seattle Times: Open-spectrum advocates say it will boost technology: by Sarah Lai Stirland, Business & Technology Section, October 28, 2002
Replacing Spectrum Auctions with a Spectrum Commons by Stuart Buck: This article argues that new technologies (such as spread spectrum and ultra-wideband) make the idea of divisible allocations of the spectrum obsolete.
Some Economics of Wireless Communications by
Yochai Benkler
[IP] Spectrum Policy Task Force Presents Recommendations For Spectrum Policy Reform
Spectrum Review Consume Response: Spectrum Review Consultation Response, August 2001 by Julian Priest
Spectrum, For Sale or Rent, by Harold Hallikainen. The paper presents comments on US trends in the use of auctions to allocate electromagnetic spectrum.
TCS: Tech - A 'Commons' Misconception by Arnold Kling.
Tauzin & Upton Unveil Relocation Reimbursement Bill, WirelessWeek.com
The Sky's No Longer the Limit by David Reed, Context Magazine. "Why radio spectrum, regulated as a precious, scarce resource, may actually be almost infinite."
The Spectrum Allocation System by Thomas W. Hazlett: Speech given for American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.
Manhattan Institute Scholar | Thomas W. Hazlett: the papers of Thomas W. Hazlett
Why Open Spectrum Matters: The End of the Broadcast Nation, by David Weinberger.
Wi-Fi joins broadband access debate - Tech News - CNET.com, November 21, 2002
Wired News: search for "wpectrum" in Wired News
Wireless Revolution: Defiant Indians: From Reason, July 2002
Imagine: World with Unlimited Airwaves, by Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News
