The COMMONS Strategy Workshop: Building a National Peered Fiber Infrastructure.

The COMMONS Project seeks:

to simultaneously solve three acute and growing problems facing the Internet: a self-reported financial crisis in the Internet infrastructure provider industry; a data acquisition crisis which has severely stunted the field of network science; and a struggle for survival within emerging community and municipal networks, who are in an ideal position to address the first two problems but often lack resources and experience to make informed operational decisions, and are also continually threatened by incumbent-driven legislation.

This week, three dozen visionaries and thought leaders are meeting in San Diego to plot out how to build the COMMONS. Information on the Workshop is available here. I'll going to look into getting permission to post the participants list (it's really an incredible group of people).