
2/14

What might Inter-network science be?

` Network' in terms of nodes on the engineering side` the 30-40,000 Autonomous Systems

` Descriptive: what is the internet, in engineering terms?

` Network: machines & humans in each AS

` Explanatory: how does it work, what goes wrong, how we fix that?

` Analyzing together

` not been properly done before?!

` Specific regulations and policies

` most useful ('efficient', just, practical)

` to ensure maximum social value from the network.` Privacy, interoperability and freedom of speech vital

` Types of network effects & social/economic/public values

` A future Internet of European values


3/14

What are needs and exclusions?

` Transdisciplinary` Good network scientists and social scientists

` Monodisciplinarians need not apply!

` That eliminates most lawyers and engineers

` Not web science

` Branch of graph theory

` Applies largely to content/apps layer

` Very important WSI work done at Southampton/MIT

` Semantic web as Web3.0?

` Not Internet studies

` What some in US call Internet science is really studies

` See AoIR ten years of flourishing critical media analysis


4/14

Creating academic

interdisciplinary expertise

` Were too old` We weary pygmys of DOS, dial-up and CD-ROM

` Kids never watch TV without a laptop...

` Its the Born Digital who are creative

` Young engineers as social and cultural entrepreneurs

` Multi-disciplinary, multi-national, multi-lingual individuals

` They code in different languages in different time zones

` They take commercial exploitation of technology as natural

` Born since IETF, PKI (even W3C) were born:

` Diffie and Cerf s grandchildren; Python, Torrent and Linux children

` Fund next generation of pre- and post-doctoral researchers

` best hope for Europe to compete!

` Most universities and departments opposed

` Silos still keep us apart, research evaluation reinforces our borders


5/14

Build on Best of breed

` FIRE Station` Future Internet excellence accessible

` PARADISO` sustainability in widest sense, as with TAFI

` diverse group of industrial and academic partners

` Cambridge-MIT Institute` Communications Research Institute

` International

` Pan-European

` Best of The Rest US FINE

` Brazil, Japan, Korea, China, Russia et al


6/14

A work plan for Internet Science

` Not just an integrated investigation but new methodologies` building upon the integration of expertises.

` Methodologies may be investigated per se

` but must be applied to some practical cases as well.

` Pedagogy, learning by doing for next gen researchers

` Identify cases of interest` (i.e. applications, services, technical scenarios)

` Traffic management for specialized services a good example?

` Investigation by exploiting new methodologies

` quantitative and qualitative analysis` social impact of such technology

` evaluation of the effects on human interaction and communication.

` Sociological and semiotic analysis:

` re-design technology to solve impracticalities and/or inefficiencies


7/14

Assessing Internet science by needs

` Risks and costs of build it and they will come` TAFI demonstrates need for socio-economic research

` Complexity theory

` Network of networks presents complex modelling task

`

Game theory` N-sided markets of networks and content providers

` Real options

` Medium term policy direction a major financial consideration

` Thank Euro-process for no US-style duopoly/competition flipflops

` Cynical lawyers` Play a real role warriors turned peace-makers

` Knowing that law cannot solve problems turns our attention to real(yet intellectual!) property disputes

` (Charter of Fundamental) Rights implications of technologies


8/14

Three Wise Monkeys of

Net Neutrality

Dr ChrisMarsden,

Director

LL.M.

Internet LawEssex

EuroParl/EC

11 Nov 2010


9/14

New articles this month

` Three Wise Monkeys

`www.globalpolicyjournal.com/

` Mobile Net Neutrality

`ejlt.org//article/view/32

`More ssrn.com/author=220925` www.essex.ac.uk/law/staff/profile.aspx?ID=832


10/14

Managed services FRAND

FairReasonable and

Non-discriminatory

Access` means Murdoch, Berlusconi and Disney

` cant cut exclusive deals to freeze out competitors

` Universal service must also be considered

` As well as Public Service must-carry


11/14

Europe leads on mobile neutrality

` Essential for dongle users

` Fixed-mobile convergence demands equivalence of regulatory

treatment

` Subject to reasonable traffic management` Critical for developing nations

` 5.3 billion mobile users today

` 3b people will only access the Internet via mobiles by 2015 -

ITU


12/14

That begins at transparency

` Realistic 3G & LTE speeds

` Who told DSL Prime about 50Mb/s LTE in 1000 German

villages by end-2010?

`

Whats the minimum speed at peak-time?` Not up to lab-tested maximum!

` NOT blocking Skype

` Building High Definition VOIP fast lanes


13/14

Cambridge: 'control point analysis'

` EIFFEL` Note sustainability of EIFFEL as think tank for network design

` School of Architecture: original EIFFEL initiative in 2006,

` International curriculum for architecture research & education.

` Evolving developed methodology in combination with` system dynamics modelling,

` to derive design strategies,

` regulatory policy recommendations

` and

` possible investment policies


14/14

Economics

` Spectral geometry` Game-complexity theory

` Warwick:

www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/ug/modules/3rd/ec301

` EPSRC workshop` www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/research/events/2009_2010

/symposium/gamwks/

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