Richard Moore

1996-04-17 Sender: •••@••.••• (Audrie Krause) Richard Moore wrote: >I don’t agree. Telecom costs are going down sharply, with fiber so cheap, >bandwidth is increasing. Not to mention satellites. More companies are >getting into Internet service provision. Rates are going down, not up. >With multiple paths into the home, the basis for a monopoly is lacking. … Read more…

1996-04-17 Sender: •••@••.••• (Lutz Donnerhacke) * Cyber Rights wrote: > CDT POLICY POST Volume 2, Number 14 April 12, 1996 > > o The revised S.1360 removes “health information services” from being > treated as trustees, and now only allows them to receive personal health > information with an individual’s consent. Now, trustees, such as … Read more…

1996-04-17 (Introduction from moderator: the first issue is a tactical angle in the battle to allow encryption to be exported. The second shows the determination of governments to regulate electronic networks without having the least bit of understanding about them.–Andy) ========================================================================= ________________ _______________ _______________ /_______________/ /_______________ /______________ \\\\/ ||||||||||||||||| / //////////////// \________/ |||||________ / /////______ … Read more…

1996-04-17 A forum will be held in Washington, D.C. on the morning of May 15 by the Douglass Policy Institute. The subject is promoting the availability of Internet use to inner-city schools. Several government officials will attend. Email me for the announcement. A few weeks ago a group of Congresspeople announced that they were setting … Read more…

1996-04-16 Sender: Arun Mehta <•••@••.•••> > Sender: •••@••.••• (Richard K. Moore) > I can see no other motivation for the > bill than to destroy competition and make it possible for the biggest > players to control the medium and the prices. I’m no wholehearted supporter of the telecom act, but I can point out … Read more…

1996-04-15 Sender: •••@••.••• (Marilyn Davis) > > Sender: T Bruce Tober <•••@••.•••> > > a half dozen subgroups under uk.p.m and then do away with uk.p ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ As long as three people want to carry on under an established public label for an online forum, it is unconscionably oppressive for any ill-defined “majority” to “do … Read more…

1996-04-15 (Introduction from moderator: on first glance–at least, I admit, on my first glance–this looked like a radical but marginally interesting recommendation for changing the way phone calls are charged. Craig Johnson pointed out to me that it represents an attempt to liberate the complicated current system whereby one part of the phone system pays … Read more…

1996-04-15 A new organization called the Competition Policy Instutute has been founded to make recommendations in telecom. I don’t know much about them, but I’ve got a press release I can share with you if you’re interested. They say they want to “promote state and federal policies that introduce telecom and electic service competition in … Read more…

1996-04-15 Sender: “Craig A. Johnson” <•••@••.•••> R.K. Moore wrote: > Re/regulation: My own view is that the regulatory regime we > had > prior the Telcom Reform bill was an excellent one — evolved over > time — and was giving us vibrant competition, rapid innovation, and > affordable prices — especially on Internet. Yeah, … Read more…

1996-04-15 (Introduction from moderator: Remember the bill S. 1360, introduced into the U.S. Senate to determine how medical records could be stored and shared? It set off quite a fight between the CDT (which supported the bill) and Jamie Love’s TAP (which opposed it). CDT has released a newsletter explaining new measures that improve the … Read more…