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Table of Contents

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Definitions
General Approach to the Internet

Hands off the Internet
Affirmative Policy to Promote the Internet

Internet and Communications Regulation

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)

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

Info Services

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

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

Internet Jurisdiction
GeoLocation
Administrative Procedures Act

Chevron Doctrine

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