Patent for Pop Up Ads Law Meme

This paper focuses on the international telecommunications and Internet policy issues which ENUM presents. Really really good.

« THE ENUM PROTOCOL, TELECOMMUNICATIONS NUMBERING, AND INTERNET GOVERNANCE« 

Why wireless spectrum should be sold to the highest bidder? Concerns about possible consequences of a too burdensome regulation over wireless spectrum licensing have been raised in an interesting article by Eli Noam (comments also by Lessig, Epstein and Hazlett) recently published in FT.com.

The European Commission seems to share these concerns and yesterday adopted a recommendation that encourages EU countries to allow for the deployment of W-LAN with as little regulatory burden as possible.
The Information Society Commissioner, Erkki Liikanen, affirmed that the Recommendation “is an important step for the deployment of multi-platform and high-speed Internet connections”

Interesting ITU Workshop on Member States’ Experiences with ccTLDs (Geneva, 3-4 March 2003)

The whole bunch of contribution (over 60!) to the meeting can be found at http://www.itu.int/itudoc/itu-t/workshop/cctld/index.html.
However, if you want to get a taste of the discussion going on, you can read the article on The Register « Internet battle lines drawn at extraordinary Geneva meeting«