ILAW 2003 – Day 2 – July 1, 2003 – AM 1 of 2 – Yochai Benkler – Architecture For Non-Technical People

This is from the first session on the second day of ILAW at Stanford, July 1, 2003.
My notes are located beneath the photographs.
Yochai Benkler was as amazing as ever (I’ve been a big fan since the Spectrum Conference — note that there’s no link there because I still haven’t uploaded it…argh…)

Yochai On Architecture – Part 1 of 4
(Small – 62 MB)

Yochai On Architecture – Part 2 of 4
(Small – 62 MB)

Yochai On Architecture – Part 3 of 4
(Small – 50 MB)

Yochai On Architecture – Part 4 of 4
(Small – 16 MB)













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Lotsa notes on this one:


Day 2 – Tape 1
7:15 – slide of a communications channel
9:57 – one of the things at stake is democracy
What Terry Fisher explained yesterday as “political democracy”
12:00 QOS Dangers
14:10 – innovation
19:00 architecture for non-techs
28:10 – “Monopoly and a half”
31:25 – Thing that changed from the last 100 years
35:50 – Verizon’s competitor division makes more money than the entire recording industry
39:35- FCC notice of inquiry
42:00 intra-modal “competition within the mode of transmission”
“Maybe competition between these modes is all we need?” – Yochai
Duopoly…
44:30 – Do two pipelines a competitive market make?
50:00 – Where “the internet” fits into the cable and telecom
51:20 – where wireless fits in
53:50 – Personal Area Networks
Day 2 – Tape 2 (Yochai continued)
:47 – No owner of the network
-No license required
5:01 – old vs. new world
7:50 – “Mary had a little lamb” – example
Smart receivers and how they work.
10:50 – Processing gain
The use of intelligent receivers
12:20 – cooperation gain
14:30 – repeater networks
How they will work like cellphones.
15:10 – multi-user information theory
multi-user detections
16:20 – Does adding users cost nothing because each user adds their own capacity to the network?
We don’t know for sure, yet. But it’s definitely possible. (paraphrase)
21:00 – “efficient” use of spectrum can’t be defined
23:00 – duopoly
25:28 – Trusted systems
27:25 – could be open or closed
How one can control it all if they control one layer.
35:36 – Version putting wifi in its phone booths in NY

One thought on “ILAW 2003 – Day 2 – July 1, 2003 – AM 1 of 2 – Yochai Benkler – Architecture For Non-Technical People

  1. Hamish MacEwan

    Lisa,
    Thanks very much for this coverage, it, and the material from the Spectrum Conference are very useful.
    While the video and audio suffer a little, it is not how well the bear dances, it is that the bear dances at all.
    I only wish more conferences would do this kind of coverage, O’Reilly’s Open Source, SuperNova et al. It’s very unlikely I’ll ever make it across the Pacific, let alone your country, but the flow of policy and thought in the other direction makes it critical that we know what is going on and this kind of coverage is marvellous for that.
    Suggestions
    Unless they are way better on the larger version of the video (and thanks for putting the .jpgs here, even they are difficult to recognise) you may as well ignore the slides, better Yochai puts them up seperately (with a link) and then the video and they can be watched together.
    Unless (and I suspect it is) audio sensitivity is directional, I wouldn’t swing around to questioners, and some of the pan shots are, giddying…
    Fantastic stuff, fantastic people, and though thousands of miles away, and not fantastically funded, I can observe, and via this method, or email, almost participate.

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