Stanford Spectrum Conference

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Faulhaber, Gerald" <faulhabe () wharton upenn edu>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 20:32:24 -0500
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: RE: [CYBERIA] Stanford Spectrum Conference

Dave --

I think you and I agree wholeheartedly that posing the intellectual debate
as "spectrum v. commons" is probably bad scholarship.  It is the way legal
scholars like to tee things up, so I guess we need to fit the Law School
model.  But a big part of our effort has been to get over this "us versus
them" character of the debate.  It's time to quit the theological arguments
and get down to serious work helping policy makers deal with the real world.
I could agree more with this note.

Professor Gerald Faulhaber <http://rider.wharton.upenn.edu/~faulhabe>
Business and Public Policy Department
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
 


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From: Dave Farber [mailto:dave () farber net]
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 9:55 AM
To: Faulhaber, Gerald
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From: Douglas Galbi <DGALBI () FCC GOV>
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Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:43:00 -0500
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Subject: Re: [CYBERIA] Stanford Spectrum Conference

Radio regulation, also commonly called spectrum policy,
looks to me like the most important public policy issue for
the future of communications.

Is it really necessary to frame discussion in terms of a
binary opposition between "property" and "commons"?

Doesn't this binary opposition invoke some tragic aspects
of twentieth century European intellectual history -- bad
thinking that greatly hurt the lives of hundred of millions of
persons, if not billions?

The report of the FCC's Spectrum Policy Task Force makes
a more original intellectual contribution. Its major findings
point to the need for "more flexible and market-oriented
regulatory models" and it notes, "Such models must be
based on clear definitions of the rights and responsibilities
of both licensed and unlicensed spectrum users, particularly
with respect to interference and interference protection."

I hope the Stanford Spectrum Conference will contribute to
discussing how to establish clear, enforceable rights. It seems
to me that many persons know something about how clear,
enforceable rights are established, i.e.how rights are actually
defined through various practices, including personal actions,
discussion, and public writings of various levels of solemness.
Extending workable approaches to radio shouldn't be too difficult.

For some ideas for discussion, see "Revolutionary Ideas for
Radio Regulation," available at
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=316380
and at
http://www.galbithink.org



> > > Lauren Gelman 01/29/03 06:52PM >>>
Spectrum Policy: 
Property or Commons?
Stanford Law School
March 1-2, 2003 

Sponsored by: 
Thomas Hazlett, the Manhattan Institute, and
Lawrence Lessig of the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society

Full conference details and registration at:
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/spectrum/

CLE credit available!

Highlights: 

**A moot court where "property" proponents Thomas Hazlett and
Professor Gerald R. Faulhaber will debate "commons" proponents
Professor Lawrence Lessig and Professor Yochai Benkler about which
architecture most effectively promotes efficiency and innovation.
This moot court will honor Nobel Prize winning economist Ronald
Coase, who criticized the FCC's spectrum policy in 1959, arguing that
rules preempting private ownership of spectrum led to catastrophic
inefficiencies in the market. The Judges will include FCC Chairman
Michael Powell, renowned economist Harold Demsetz, and Ninth Circuit
Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski.

**Professor Yochai Benkler, from NYU Law School, presenting a
proposal to treat spectrum as a commons with comments by Professors
Gerald R. Faulhaber, former FCC Chief economist, Professor David
Farber, former FCC technologist, Professor Howard Shelanski, former
FCC Chief Economist, and J. Gregory Sidak, Director of AEI's
Telecommunications Deregulation Project.

**Presentations of two property based proposals for regulating
spectrum, including "A Proposal for a Rapid Transition to Market
Allocation of Spectrum" from the FCC Office of Plans and Policy and a
paper by Thomas Hazlett of the Manhattan Institute, with comments by
Dewayne Hendricks, CEO of the The Dandin Group, Tim Shepard, and
Kevin Werbach, former Counsel for New Technology Policy at the FCC.

**Dr. David P. Reed explaining what's different about emerging
spectrum technologies? Why do they present new regulatory issues?
what's new, and just why that should matter.

**Lunch panel with presentations on a number of business models for
utilizing spectrum under both property and commons regulatory regimes
including mesh networks and Community wireless networking.

** Sunday Workshop on "Spectrum Etiquette" where participants will
explore whether the unlicensed spectrum band needs etiquette rules at
this time? Or should the FCC leave the space alone?

Full conference details and registration at:
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/spectrum/

Registration: 

Corporate ($695) 
Academic/Non-Profit/Government ($195)
Student ($50) 
Press (free, but must register)

CLE credit available

-- 
Lauren Gelman, Esq.
Assistant Director 
Center for Internet and Society

Stanford Law School
Crown Quadrangle 
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305-8610

(ph) 650-724-3358 
(fax) 650-723-4426 


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