Wednesday, February 19, 2014

NIST Computer Security Division has 3 upcoming events - mark your calendars

NIST Computer Security Division has announced three upcoming events. Mark your calendars! The NIST Computer Security Division is still planning to host more events and once the information becomes available to the general public, an email will be sent out to this mailing list.

1. Cryptographic Key Management Workshop 2014
March 4-5, 2014
NIST Gaithersburg, Maryland

For more information regarding the Cryptographic Key Management workshop, please visit the workshop’s webpage on the NIST Computer Security Division website:
http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/ct/ckm_workshop2014.cfm

2. FISSEA 27th Annual Conference
March 18-20, 2014
NIST Gaithersburg, Maryland

For more information regarding the FISSEA Conference, please visit the FISSEA website on the NIST CSRC website at: http://csrc.nist.gov/fissea/

3. Privacy Engineering Workshop
April 9-10, 2014
NIST Gaithersburg, Maryland

For more information regarding the Privacy Engineering Workshop, please visit the workshop’s webpage for more information on the NIST Computer Security Division website:
http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/privacy-engineering-workshop.cfm

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

THE FUTURE OF BROADBAND REGULATION

THE FUTURE OF BROADBAND REGULATION
A by-invitation experts’ workshop Organized by the Institute for Information Policy at Penn State University and co-sponsored by the Federal Communications Commission. To be held at the FCC in Washington, DC, May 28-30, 2014.

The U.S. National Broadband Plan envisions the transition of the U.S. telecommunications infrastructure to a ubiquitous IP-based broadband network. While there is a vibrant discussion of how best to manage the transition, there is only a nascent discussion of what the policy framework should look like after it is completed. What is the long-term outlook (beyond the transition and into the next decade) for the broadband ecosystem, and how will the regulatory system have to adapt to a changed environment?

Advances in infrastructure technology and applications have, and will likely continue to push at the boundaries of current regulatory frameworks for telecommunications, media, and even intellectual property rights The Institute for Information Policy at Penn State (IIP), in collaboration with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), is pleased to announce this call for paper proposals addressing the multiple factors in thinking about regulation for post-transition broadband networks.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to present and discuss them during a 2-day by-invitation-only workshop designed to bring together up to a dozen experts to be held at the Federal Communications Commissions on May 28-30. The Workshop is designed to draw together the latest academic thinking on these questions and to give FCC staff the opportunity to suggest elements of a forward-looking research agenda that would contribute to the policy discourse around them. The workshop is part of a series of events focused on “Making Policy Research Accessible,” organized by the IIP, with the support of the Ford Foundation and the Media Democracy Fund. Presenters at the workshop will be invited to submit their completed papers to the Journal of Information Policy.

All disciplines are welcome. Invited topics of papers may include, but are not limited to:

* Will the dominant model for delivery of broadband services be fixed or mobile? How much competition will there be (especially wireline)? Will there be new technologies or entrants?
* What is the future of “over-the-top” content and CDNs?
* What will be the impact of the “internet of things”? What is its regulatory status?
* How is the “public interest” defined in the broadband ecosystem? What sorts of regulatory safeguards/interventions will be needed to advance the public interest?
* How do the FCC’s broadband promotion programs interact with efforts of other agencies, on both the demand and supply side?
* How should the concept of universal service evolve? What can the designers of universal service policies learn from efforts to stimulate demand for broadband?
* What are the implications for regulatory frameworks of technological and other changes in the broadband ecosystem?
* How should the division of labor between state and federal regulatory authorities change?
* Are there any regulatory challenges on the horizon that are not yet part of the mainstream broadband regulation debate?

Abstracts of up to 500 words and a short bio of the author(s) should be submitted to pennstateiip@psu.edu by March 15, 2014. Please write IIPFCCPOST: YOUR NAME in the subject line. Accepted presenters will be notified by March 31, 2014.