Blogging from the Alternative Telecom Policy Forum.

Today & tomorrow, I'm blogging from the Alternative Telecom Policy Forum in Ottawa Canada. I gave a plenary session last night on Community and Municipal Wireless Networking and the COMMONS Project (to create a collaborative fiber peering network among participating networks) -- hope to have the slides online soon. Meanwhile, we just heard from Sheila Copps, former minister of Canadian Heritage -- my good friend Michael Lenczner blogs about it here.

If you'd like to "join" the forum -- live video, audio and (occassionally snarky) commentary is publicly available here.

UPDATE01: Alison Powell just put up some great thoughts on Copp's comments here.

UPDATE02: Sheila Copp's presentation is available for download at http://www.privaterra.org/~rguerra/copps-ottawa.ppt and below.

UPDATE 03: Monica Aure from the Canadian Conference of the Arts reminds us that current telecom regulatory processes that might help the public interest mirror the twelve-step procedure of the U.K.’s Sir
Humphrey Appleby when trying to delay initiatives until after the election -- Appleby advised his Minister that the best way to delay taking action on a file was to initiate:

1. informal discussions
2. a draft proposal
3. preliminary study
4. a discussion document
5. in-depth study
6. a revised proposal
7. a policy statement
8. a strategy statement
9. discussion of a strategy
10. circulation of an implementation plan
11. revision of the implementation plan
12. Cabinet agreement.

UPDATE04: Sascha's presentation, "LANs, MANs, and Beyond: The COMMONS Project," is now available online.