The Internet and Telecommunications Policy

Contents: D.P. Reed, Foreword. G.W. Brock, G.L. Rosston, Introduction. Part I:Local Competition. T.J. Brennan, Is the Theory Behind U.S. v AT&T Applicable Today? R. Stannard, The Rochester Local Exchange Market Nine Months Later. N. Economides, L.J. White, Access and Interconnection Pricing: How Is the Efficient Component Pricing Rule? Part II:Pricing Problems in Complex Networks. Q. Wang, M.A. Sirbu, J.M. Peha, Pricing of ATM Network Services. W.H. Lehr, M.B.H. Weiss, The Political Economy of Congestion Charges and Settlements in Packet Networks. S. Shenker, D. Clark, D. Estrin, S. Herzog, Pricing in Computer Networks: Reshaping the Research Agenda. Part III:Interoperability. D.P. Reed, The Transition to Digital Television Distribution Systems: A Technological View of Expected Interoperability. C. Weare, Organizing Interoperability: Economic Institutions and the Development of Interoperability. N. Omoigui, M. Sirbu, C. Eldering, N. Himayat, Comparing Integrated Broadband Architectures From an Economic and Public Policy Perspective. Part IV:Intellectual Property. J. MacKie-Mason, S. Shenker, H.R. Varian, Service Architecture and Content Provision: The Network Provider as Editor. J.M. Foley, Corporate Free Speech Rights and Diversity of Content Control: An Emerging Dilemma. R.G. Noll, The Economics of Scholarly Publications and the Information Superhighway. Y. Yuan, S.F. Roehrig, On the Duration of Copywright Protection for Digital Information. J. Litman, Revising Copyright Law for the Information Age.