1996-03-26 This will be held on June 16-19, 1996 in Washington, DC (I think–the announcement is not clear). It covers a wide range of topics on the effects of networks on the economy, democracy, publishing, and so on. Email me if you’d like the announcement. Andy ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Posted by Andrew Oram – •••@••.••• – Moderator: … Read more…
1996-03-26 (The following news summary was posted by Madanmohan Rao, Communications Director, United Nations Inter Press Service Bureau, to the MecklerMedia Internet World site, which is on the Web at http://www.iworld.com/netday/NATW.html–Andy.) INTERNET PHONE, FAX MAY THREATEN AUSTRALIAN TELCOS Australian Internet users making long-distance phone calls via the Internet may undermine Telstra’s and Optus’s most profitable … Read more…
1996-03-26 Henry Huang The suit mentioned below involves a bizarre case where an ELECTRONIC copy of a book about cryptography is being prohibited from export, while same book (with crypto source code) is FREELY exportable. Yet another bizarre application of the ITAR law. See URL quoted below for more information. -H — Forwarded mail from … Read more…
1996-03-25 Sender: Martin Janzen <•••@••.•••> •••@••.••• (Marilyn Davis) writes: >> Finally, I don’t believe we’ll reach consensus on this list. There > >Our enemy is so close and our direction is so clear, consensus will >flow through us as fast as we let it. “Our enemy”? “Our direction”? >Gosh Andy, unless your post is intended … Read more…
1996-03-25 Sender: Arun Mehta <•••@••.•••> The Economic Times of March 21, 1996, carries news that I find very disturbing under the front-page headline “Metro cellular operators told to instal tapping equipment” by Manoj Gairola: “DOT officials had recently called a meeting of all the cellular operators to discuss the modalities for providing sophisticated monitoring equipment.” … Read more…
1996-03-25 Sender: •••@••.••• i am wondering if you thought this through. here’s how this would happen, according to what was said. the fcc eliminates their long-distance charge, and then raises the local charge to us. thus we pay more for local calls. assuming that we’re calling a local number for net access, and i hope … Read more…
1996-03-25 Craig A. Johnson The following comments are a partial response to both Andy Oram and Rick Crawford on the Internet telephone issue, and CPSR’s possible stance. Crawford posted his reply on cpsr-nii, and it is reproduced below, followed by my comments. –caj @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Sender: Rick Crawford <•••@••.•••> Date: 24 Mar 96 Rick Crawford wrote: … Read more…
1996-03-25 Craig A. Johnson A very revealing report from the “front lines.” –caj @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 21:58:39 -0800 To: •••@••.••• From: •••@••.••• (–Todd Lappin–>) Subject: LAWSUIT: Trial Update 3/22/96 Last Friday, Declan McCullagh made the pilgrimage to Philadelphia to check out the second day of hearings in the case of the Internet … Read more…
1996-03-25 Richard Moore ~–<fwd>–~ Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 From: •••@••.••• (MR NEIL J LEHTO) To: Multiple recipients of list <•••@••.•••> Subject: Time Warner Executive on Competition Here’s a great quote from Marsha Rockey Schermer, vice president, regulatory, Midwest region, Time Warner Communications, in an op ed piece published in The Multichannel News on August … Read more…
1996-03-24 Sender: “Audrie Krause” <•••@••.•••> Andy – Thank you for posting information about the FCC proceeding on universal service. Cyber-Rights participants may be interested in knowing that the CPSR Board of Directors has okayed our signing onto comments in support of an extension of the FCC’s April 8 deadline for filing comments on universal service … Read more…