Abstract
ABSTRACT
The period from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s saw the transformation of information and communication infrastructure. In the same period, TPRC evolved from a narrower focus on conventional telecommunications and information policy to “The Research Conference on Communications, Information, and Internet Policy.” Through the lens of my own interdisciplinary work on Internet policy and intersecting TPRC activity, this retrospective describes an arc of change that began at the 1994 TPRC and continued for about a decade. It combines description, commentary, and reflections on what this history might bode for TPRC as metaverses and Web3 progress from today’s hype to tomorrow’s Internet.
Publisher
The Pennsylvania State University Press
Subject
Public Administration,Sociology and Political Science,Communication,General Medicine
Reference17 articles.
1. “About the Internet Governance Forum.” Accessed January 1, 2023. https://www.intgovforum.org/en/filedepot_download/4099/481.
2. “AT&T Divestiture.” Accessed January 1, 2023. https://bellsystemmemorial.com/att_divestiture.html.
3. Blumenthal, Marjory S.
“Architecture and Economic Policy.”
Telecommunications Policy
20, no. 3 (April1996): 161–7. Accessed January 1, 2023. https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/telecommunications-policy/vol/20/issue/3.
4. “Rethinking the Design of the Internet: The End to End Arguments vs. the Brave New World.”;ACM Transactions on Internet Technology,2001
5. Computer Science and Telecommunications Board. Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2002. Accessed January 1, 2023. https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10235/broadband-bringing-home-the-bits.