{"id":424,"date":"2009-06-09T14:43:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T21:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/?p=424"},"modified":"2012-04-10T16:22:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T23:22:10","slug":"a-recent-visit-to-the-fcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/2009\/06\/09\/a-recent-visit-to-the-fcc\/","title":{"rendered":"a recent visit to the fcc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I spent a few hours at the FCC two weeks back, presented a slide version of a  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caida.org\/publications\/presentations\/2009\/top_ten_fcc\/top_ten_fcc.pdf\">top ten list<\/a> I wrote last year.   Requested discussion topics: obstacles to data collection, how data is collected and used, policy-making based on inference, how to develop an objective knowledge base for science and policy, privacy expectations\/rights versus the need for understanding the system as critical infrastructure.  Audience mostly lawyers, worried about how they are going to accomplish a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/Daily_Releases\/Daily_Digest\/2009\/dd090409.html\">reasonable broadband plan<\/a>.  As I tried to describe in my five-minute presentation slot (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caida.org\/publications\/presentations\/2009\/broadband\/ntia_bp.pdf\">1 slide<\/a>, and more expansive <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/2009\/04\/13\/top-ten-72b-broadband-stimulus-ideal-conditions\/\">blog entry<\/a>) on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntia.doc.gov\/broadbandgrants\/meetings.html\">broadband panel<\/a> at the DOC ten weeks ago, solutions begin with recognition of some underlying empirical facts, starting with one that is strangely not being emphasized by lobbyists: you can&#8217;t make Wall-Street-approved margins moving bits around over long distances. Lot of implications to that reality; the sooner we admit it, the more realistic our broadband plan will be.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a few hours at the FCC two weeks back, presented a slide version of a top ten list I wrote last year. Requested discussion topics: obstacles to data collection, how data is collected and used, policy-making based on inference, how to develop an objective knowledge base for science and policy, privacy expectations\/rights versus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,17],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}