Communications policy in transition : the Internet and beyond / edited by Benjamin M. Compaine and Shane Greenstein.

Papers from the 28th Telecommunications Policy Research Conference held in Alexandria, Va. in the Fall of 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: I Differing Regulatory Treatment of Access Modes -- 1 Where Internet Service Providers and Telephone Companies -- Compete: A Guide to the Computer Inquiries, Enhanced Service -- Providers, and Information Service Providers 3 -- Robert Cannon -- 2 Broadband Architectures, ISP Business Plans, and Open -- Access 35 -- Shawn O'Donnell -- 3 Regulatory Treatment of IP Transport and Services 59 -- Joshua L. Mindel and Marvin A. Sirbu --II Internet Architecture Design in a Competitive Era -- 4 Rethinking the Design of the Internet: The End-to-End Arguments -- vs. the Brave New World 91 -- Marjory S. Blumenthal and David D. Clark -- 5 The InterNAT: Policy Implications of the Internet Architecture -- Debate 141 -- Hans Kruse, William Yurcik, and Lawrence Lessig -- 6 The Potential for Scrutiny of Internet Peering Policies in -- Multilateral Forums 159 -- Rob Frieden -- 7 Wireline vs. Wireless Internet Access: Comparing the United States -- and Japan 195 -- Emily Moto Murase --III Dilemmas in Development of Communications Infrastructure -- 8 Developing Telecommunications Infrastructure: State and Local -- Policy Collisions 221 -- Sharon Strover and Lon Berquist -- 9 From C to Shining C: Competition and Cross-Subsidy in -- Communications 241 -- Gregory L. Rosston and Bradley S. Wimmer --IV The End of the Digital Divide? -- 10 Unexpected Outcomes in Digital Divide Policy: What Children -- Really Do in the Public Library 265 -- Christian Sandvig -- 11 Accessibility of Broadband Telecommunications Services by Various -- Segments of the American Population 295 -- David Gabel and Florence Kwan -- 12 Reexamining the Digital Divide 321 -- Benjamin M. Compaine --V Information Policy and Commercial Internet Behavior -- 13 Sorting Out the Search Engine Market 351 -- Neil Gandal -- 14 Copyright in the Age of Distributed Applications 369 -- Seth D. Greenstein -- 15 Should Congress Establish a Compulsory License for Internet Video -- Providers to Retransmit Over-the-Air TV Station Programming via -- the Internet? 397 -- Michael Wirth and Larry Collette.