Greg Sidak presents "Update on the U.S. Net Neutrality Experience"
Greg Sidak presented "Update on the U.S. Net Neutrality Experience" in Wellington on Tuesday 25 May 2010. Held at Government Buildings Lecture Theatre 2, Stout Street.
Over the last decade in the United States, network neutrality has evolved from a primarily technical concern to a national debate about the future of American communications regulation, as well as technology and innovation policy generally. In October 2009, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to codify six principles of network neutrality. Network neutrality is shorthand for a series of policy prescriptions that would restrict the ability of broadband internet service providers to manage network traffic. The current debate has centered on a proposed rule that would bar network operators from charging content and applications providers for entering into business-to-business transactions for quality-of-service enhancements for packet delivery. The FCC's rulemaking could have profound economic consequences for consumers, content and applications providers, and network operators.
J. Gregory Sidak is the chairman of Criterion Economics, LLC in Washington DC and the Ronald Coase Professor of Law and Economics at Tilburg University in The Netherlands. He has served in the U.S. government as both an economist and a lawyer. He edits the Journal of Competition Law and Economics for the Oxford University Press and has written extensively on anti-trust, intellectual property, and regulation. His books and articles have been cited by the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Court of Canada, the European Commission, and many other courts and regulatory commissions. Professor Sidak previously taught at the Yale School of Management and the Georgetown University Law Center. He was educated at Stanford University and clerked for Judge Richard A. Posner.