Judge Greene Speaks Again (3/88)
Judge Greene Speaks Again -- Info Services Part 2 by Bob Jacobson HAROLD H. GREENE JUDGE, U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA OPINION [Outlined and Annotated] I. Need for Retention of the Restriction on the Provision of Information Content (pp. 3-9) -- The BOCs arguments for greater regulatory freedom to engage in new business are self-serving and speculative, and their promises of good behavior if totally freed from antitrust constraints are belied by their past transgressions. II. Removal of the Restriction on Information Transmission (pp. 10-17) -- Broad public policy outweighs narrow antitrust considerations: for Americans to...

California Assembly Passes Info Age Bill of Rights (3/88)
California Assembly Passes Info Age Bill of Rights For Immediate Release! ---------------------- February 10, 1988 Contact: Bob Jacobson (916) 445-4246 MCI: rjacobson INFORMATION AGE "BILL OF RIGHTS" CLEARS IMPORTANT LEGISLATIVE HURDLE SACRAMENTO -- Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 36 (ACA 36), introduced in the California Legislature by Assemblywoman Gwen Moore (D-L.A.), cleared an important legislative hurdle today when it was passed by the Assembly Elections, Reapportionment, and Constitutional Amendments Committee on a bipartisan 6-0 vote. Moore, who chairs the Utilities and Commerce Committee (which passed ACA 36 on a 10-vote last year), credited ACA 36's passage to lobbying by grassroots...

X.400: What is It?, Part I (2/88)
X.400: What is It?, Part I by Ruben Boiardi (RUBEN) >* This month I had the opportunity to spend some time at Telenet headquarters in Virginia with Ed Lane and others. Lane is one of Telenet's education and training specialists and something of a "guru" on the topic of X.400. We spent the better part of a week discussing X.400 implementations and various strategies for handling mail messages in the X.400 environment. X.400 is the name of a series of recommendations ranging from X.400 to X.430 set out by the Consultative Committee for International Telephone and Telegraph (CCITT) governing...

TELENET Letter (7/87)
TELENET LETTER (Reprinted with Permission) Text of TELEMAIL letter sent by TELENET President to customers re FCC proposal.... June 29, 1987 As many of you know, the FCC recently announced a notice of proposed rulemaking to impose interstate switched access charges on enhanced service providers (ESPs), effective January 1, 1988. If adopted, this proposal would affect value-added network services such as Telenet, as well as firms providing remote computing, database services, electronic mail and other computer-based services involving interstate data traffic. Switched access charges were originally designed to apply to common carriers as compensation for their use of the...

Access Fees for Vans (7/87)
ACCESS FEES FOR VANS by Sam Simon [note: Sam has been moderating a lively discussion on this topic in "Access Fees for Vans" on STC which has been ported to other networks. This material has been excerpted with permission from that discussion. His viewpoint on this issue is a little different from that which others have expressed online. Sam is an attorney in Washington, DC who runs a BBS on telecommunications policy. He has presented briefs on this issue representing a coalition of public interest groups. ENA encourages its members and others to participate actively in discussion of this...

FCC Regulation Change May Effect Costs (7/87)
FCC REGULATION CHANGE MAY EFFECT COSTS by Robert Cramer June 11, 1987 (RFC)--The Federal Communications Commission on June 10 voted 4-0 to revoke an exemption, beginning Jan. 1, 1988, that had allowed providers of information services to people with computers to charge as much as $5.40 an hour less than almost all other providers of long-distance phone service. Individuals and church groups would be affected by what's known as "rate shock" -- a dramatic jump in costs -- at a time when USA information networks are at last beginning to gain public support in line with hopes of government,...

Copyrights in the Information Age (7/87)
COPYRIGHTS IN THE INFORMATION AGE by Robert Kost INFORMATION AS PROPERTY: Capitalism in the Information Age Your participation in this conference, and your use of this medium, are very much at the center of an emerging upheaval in the concept of information as property; an upheaval that occurs, ironically, just as we enter an Information Age. The source of wealth for this information age rests, in part, on an obscure area of the law known as copyright. Copyright is suffering from a growing number of anomalies - deviations from a general rule or policy -- which, like the epicycles...

Telelaw Update (6/86)
TELELAW UPDATE Electronic Privacy and Computer Fraud Acts Pass From Committees by Peg Rossing, Netweaver Telelaw Editor The purpose of this column is to digest current developments in Congress, courts and state legislatures that affect ENA members. There is a lot going on in Congress right now! I have identified one source of up-to-date information in this area and am in need of suggestions for other resources, including online news services, journals and newsletters. If you read something of interest let me know where I can find it! Comments and suggestions about what Netweaver and ENA should be doing...