Obama Assembles FCC Transition Team

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: November 14, 2008 6:55:15 PM EST
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Obama Assembles FCC Transition Team

November 14, 2008 12:39 PM
Obama Assembles FCC Transition Team

By Ira Teinowitz
<http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/11/obama_assembles_fcc_transition.php>

President-elect Barack Obama today named two academics to head his  
transition team looking at issues and personnel for the Federal  
Communications Commission.

Susan Crawford, a University of Michigan law professor of  
communications law, and Ken Werbach, a Wharton School assistant  
professor and a former counsel for new technology policy at the FCC  
during the Clinton administration, will lead the team.

Ms. Crawford is a former partner of a Washington law firm that  
specializes in communications law and recently left the board of  
directors of ICANN, a group that oversees Internet domain-name  
registration. Mr. Werbach edited Release 1.0, a technology newsletter,  
and founded Supernova Group, a technology analysis and consulting firm.

The Obama transition team includes a number of former FCC officials,  
but under the conflict-of-interest rules adopted by the president- 
elect's team, many may be barred from directly examining FCC issues.

President-elect Obama's office said today that Ms. Crawford and Mr.  
Werbach are part of the Science, Tech, Space and Arts Team that will  
be directed by Tom Wheeler, a former president of National Cable and  
Telecommunications.

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