Help Write The Book On IT, Telecom Legal Issues

Piotr Gawrysiak writes "The MOST Foundation is currently preparing a book on legal issues related to telecommunications and IT, with special emphasis on wireless telecoms (such as copyright & DRM for GSM and UMTS applications, mobile fraud, viruses using WiFi/GSM/BT etc.). We are looking for authors willing to prepare interesting articles (preferably around 5000 words) for inclusion in the book. While these should be to some extent scientific in nature, we are also interested in nonprofessional observations, essays, thoughts etc. - in short, something that I would call a 'Slashdot perspective.'" Read on to see how you can contribute.

" So - if any of the /. readers would like to have his thoughts on above matters published (in hardcover:-) and distributed among top European telecoms specialists (MOST Foundation groups several telecom companies and universities from Central and Eastern Europe - see MOST website for details) this is a good chance. The catch: deadline is beginning of September, the publication is peer reviewed :-) and we cannot pay authors (but for those whose texts will be published a free trip to one the Foundation conferences next year could be probably organized :-).

For details (or if you have an idea or - better - an abstract ready) please mail [e-mail]. Please put string MOSTBOOK in the Subject field."

Be careful what you ask for

[Anonymous Coward]

...we are also interested in nonprofessional observations...

Boy did they come to the right place.

Discuss Common Carriage

[SgtChaireBourne]

OS vendors and ISPs fall into the roll of common carrier.

So, remember to include a discussion of common carriage. Obviously, lots of space will be devoted to other issues, but let's not pay so much attention to the parts and their provenance that we forget what the tools are there to do: The "C" in ICT stands for communication.

Computers are now networked and these are used to communicate across space (telecommunications) or across time (storage/archive). This happens by routing or buffering data pack

Re:Discuss Common Carriage

[bill_mcgonigle]

In case anyone else is wondering what common carriage [democraticmedia.org] means.

The gist is that Time Warner Cable can't QoS cnn.com traffic over foxnews.com traffic under a common carriage provision. This provision does not exist for data connection that do not run over telephone lines.

OK, here is an interesting story Re: clipper chip

[PaulBu]

... and entirely timely too! ;-) just read it today in Reason and HAD to put into my .sig