Cybertelecom Federal Internet Law & Policy An Educational Project

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(Topics listed under a heading will be found on the webpage of the linked heading above it)

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• Definitions
• Internet
  • Internet History
  • Internet2
• General Approach to the Internet
• Hands off the Internet
• Affirmative Policy to Promote the Internet
• Internet and Communications Regulation
• Common Carriage
• FCC Jurisdiction over Internet
• Ancillary Jurisdiction
• Sec. 202 Discrimination
• Internet Burden to PSTN
• Network Congestion
• Economics
• Packet Switch Network Cases 1970s (certified as Title II carriers)
• Telenet
• Graphnet
• Enhanced Services over telecommunications (Computer Inquiries)
• Purpose
• Data Processing / Enhanced Services - Regulatory Restraint
• Communications Needs of Computer Networks
• Privacy
• Access Charges
• Background
• Computer I
• Computer II
• Computer III
• Narrowbandf
• Categories / Definition
• Computer I
• Communications versus Data Processing
• Hybrid
• Basic Service
• Enhanced Service
• Contamination Theory
• Examples
• Protocol Processing
• Telecom Act
  • Info Services
  • Telecommunications
• Jurisdiction
• General
• Ancillary
• Data Processing / Enhanced Services
• Carriers that Offer Enhanced Services
• Local or Interstate Jurisdiction over Internet Access
• Telephone Carrier Entrance into Enhanced Services Market
• AT&T Consent Decree
• Purpose Concerns
• Structural Separation
• Goals Objectives
• Computer I: Maximum Separation (All Carriers)
• Computer II:  Structural Separation
• Seperate Subsidiary (BOCs)
• Unbundling (All Facilities Based Carriers)
• Enhanced Services
• Customer Premises Equipent
• Computer III:  Non Structural Separation
• Purpose
• Litigation
• Non Structural Separation
• Comparatively Efficient Interconnection
• Open Network Architecture
• Other Non Structural Safeguards
• Customer Proprietary Network Information (privacy)
• Cross Subsidization & Accounting
• Non Discrimination
• Network Information Disclosure
• Section 272 of the Telecom Act
• Broadband Internet
• Cable Open Access
• DSL Broadband NPRM
• Municipal Broadband
• Erate
• VoIP : IP Telephony
• Forebearance
• Section 255 Accessibility
• CALEA
• Misc Issues
• Backbones & Peering
• Modems
• Universal Service
• Third Party Liability (Sec. 230 of CDA)
• First Amendment and Free Speech
• Domain Names and Trademarks
• AntiCybersquatter Protection Act
• History
  • History
    - Timeline
    - Internet History
    - - Prelude 1950-66
    - - - Paul Baran
    - - ARPANET 1967-69
    - - ARPANET 1970s
    - - - TCP/IP
    - - 1980s
    - - - NSFNET
    - - 1990s
    - - - CIX
    - - DNS
    - - World Wide Web
    - - Email
    - - VoIP
    - - Backbone
    - - Internet2
    - - Reference
    - AT&T
    - Telephone
    - Telegraph
    - Wireless / Radio
    - Common Carrier
    - Mergers
    - FCC
    - - Communications Act
    - - Telecom Act
    - - Hush a Phone
    - - Computer Inquiries
    - - Universal Service
• Telephone
  • - Telephone
    - Telephone Co's History
    - - AT&T History
    - - - AntiTrust
    - - - Industry : AT&T
    - - CPE Carterfone
    - - Long Distance
    - - ILECs
    - - BOCs
    - Universal Service
    - Timeline
    - Telegraph
    - Internet
    - - Computer Inquiries
    - - Info Services
    - Common Carrier
    - Telecom
    - Telecom Carrier
    - VoIP
    - Comm Act 34
    - Telecom Act 96
    - ICC
    - FCC
    - FCC Chairs & Commissioners
    
• Internet Jurisdiction
• GeoLocation
• Administrative Procedures Act
• Chevron Doctrine

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