BigHook2002: Decisions that Shape Networks
Woods Hole, Massachusetts, September 4-6, 2002
an production


SessionLogs for

Friday September 6, 8:30 to 10:00 AM,
Session 6a: Good decisions to make next - Forster, Lucky, Shapiro, Weinberger

Friday September 6, 10:30 AM to Noon,
Session 6b: How Juniper Point connects to Planet Earth - everybody


[08:50:17]<bradner>telco is not switching to a horz model - they are switching to a brownian model
[08:51:30]<Berry>Quantum Foam market
[08:51:42]<Weinberger>As in brownian motion? Or as in the color of their underpants?
[08:54:38]<Campbell>Savely´s CD of the Bach cello suites: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005NFWA/qid=1031316230/sr=1-6/ref=sr_1_6/002-0026926-6108838?v=glance&s=classical
[08:57:37]<Elin>Should I mention the number of new APPLE COMPUTERS in the room?
[08:59:59]<Black>here´s a recent bw story on apple stock
[09:00:00]<Black>http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2002/tc20020827_9548.htm
[09:00:48]<Black>in short: it says it´s risky
[09:01:11]<Michalski>link to the Plastics scene in The Graduate: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/TheGraduate-1008677/about.php
[09:01:26]<Elin>Cook: Apple has shipped more Unix machine than everyone combined...
[09:11:02]<kaminski>new panel: forster, lucky, weinberger, shapiro
[09:12:04]<Michalski>different kids have different pets...
[09:18:56]<Michalski>illustrate that, Joe!
[09:25:40]<Berry>ILECs are like a gangrenous leg; we need to apply a tourniquet to save the body
[09:29:39]<Gillmor>Every telecom customer needs a Plan B
[09:31:07]<Shirky> /greencard/ what gillmore said
[09:32:33]<Berry>Don´t need a new access *technology*, we need a new access *Business model*
[09:33:29]<Campbell>LogNote: cas change T15-T16
[09:34:29]<Michalski>access to people, not just content
[09:36:49]<Robles>The ability to publish and just consume content.
[09:38:49]<Petrovic>How does that relate to what Evslin said re gov´t networks?
[09:39:48]<kaminski>Project Rainbow article: http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/07/16/020716hnwirelessnet.xml
[09:40:52]<Stout>No one in any of the so-called "Project Rainbow" companies will even substantiate that is is a real thing, as yet.
[09:41:52]<kaminski>nytimes article (payment required): http://query.nytimes.com/search/abstract?res=F40911F63C5D0C758DDDAE0894DA404482
[09:42:32]<Evslin>I´m too much of a libertarian to say municipalities should be prohibited from setting up their own utilities even tho I don´t think it will ususally be a good solution
[09:42:55]<Evslin>it may be very good solution in small rural areas - as might coops
[09:43:58]<Evslin>but municiplaties could help enormosuy be aggressively renting sewers as conduit and by designating sites where antennas can be built and not stopped by luddites
[09:44:10]<cook>re rainbow - dave hughes is concerned , i think correctly, that if rainbow flys they big players will use polictical muscle to to change the licensing rules and shut the little guys out.
[09:44:35]<clark>this sounds a little like a tech support dept where each new employee relearns their job...
[09:45:04]<kaminski>cnet project rainbow article: http://news.com.com/2100-1033-944226.html
[09:45:14]<Black>my take on rainbow is that there´s nothing behind it -- a way for the big guys to say they´re on top of wifi
[09:45:44]<Shirky>just the name says "there really is no pot of gold"...
[09:47:09]<Campbell>LogNote: DAT change
[09:47:55]<Stout>wifi is short term
[09:48:09]<kaminski>I find it interesting that the big guys "get it" enough to promulgate a vision like Project Rainbow, even if they don´t get it enough to do it
[09:49:11]<clark>ideas are cheap. it´s the implementation that´s worthy.
[09:50:44]<clark>talk is cheap. It´s the work that sends bits.
[09:53:33]<Michalski>mass amateurization... is it good or bad?
[09:53:49]<Michalski>the bad: separation of experts (doctors) from amateurs (patients)
[09:54:00]<Michalski>the good: amateur journalism (not an oxymoron)
[09:54:45]<Michalski>Baba Googin!
[09:55:18]<Berry>Important but boring: sounds just like a sewer pipe or electical cable...
[09:56:11]<clark>I wouldn´t mind owning a commodity at this point...
[09:56:19]<Shirky>every problem was once a solution
[09:57:00]<Shirky>the german army only had 10 panzer divisions
[09:57:08]<Shirky>radical change doesn´t have to be systemic
[09:57:24]<Shirky>german army in 1939, that is
[09:58:37]<Evslin>I´m glad to run (virtual) pipes and let users (phone) or other provide content. point is that top of the stack needs the midlle of he stack
[10:00:21]<Elin>To Googin´s point re Applications: http://developer.apple.com/macosx/architecture/
[10:00:52]<Elin>The OS has become the bottom (physical) layer...and is easily replaced
[10:00:57]<Elin> /greencard/
[10:00:58]<Elin> /greencard/
[10:01:01]<Elin> /greencard/
[10:01:15]<Evslin> /greencard/
[10:02:19]<Shirky>its the second enclosure
[10:03:27]<Elin>PERSONAL CONTENT LEADS PUBLIC CONTENT
[10:03:52]<kaminski>ikeda/glocom 20020725 "Don´t Make Spectrum a Private Property" http://www.glocom.org/special_topics/glocom_colloquium/20020725_ikeda_property/
[10:05:45]<Shirky> /greencard/
[10:05:51]<clark> /greencard/ /greencard/ what Gillmor says
[10:05:58]<Michalski> /greencard/
[10:06:04]<Freeburg> /redcard/
[10:06:11]<Michalski>why, tom?
[10:06:26]<Stout> /greencard/
[10:06:30]<Robles> /greencard/
[10:07:00]<Robles>I have done that.
[10:11:21]<Campbell>LogNote: cas T17=6b start
[10:52:02]<kaminski>the new ice age: http://www.discover.com/sept_02/featice.html
[10:54:32]<kaminski>whoi occi "Can Global Warming Cause an ‘Ice Age’?" http://www.whoi.edu/institutes/occi/iceage.html
[10:57:12]<Elin>Network is up...
[10:57:59]<kaminski>(repost) WHOI OCCI "Can Global Warming Cause an ‘Ice Age’?" http://www.whoi.edu/institutes/occi/iceage.html
[10:59:48]<clark>we´re going to get cold! we´re going to get cold!
[11:00:48]<Berry>Buy Polartec and L.L. Bean
[11:01:04]<Robles> /greencard/
[11:05:24]<Shirky> /greencard/
[11:05:38]<Shirky>emotion is the best tool we have for traversing large search spaces
[11:06:15]<Elin> /greencard/
[11:12:50]<Campbell>test
[11:13:39]<Berry>test
[11:15:45]<Elin>..
[11:17:36]<kaminski>sterling: http://freeagentecosystem.com/
[11:22:09]<kaminski>"Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky ISBN: 0679721134" - recommended by Tom Peters in http://www.fastcompany.com/online/44/rules.html
[11:23:32]<Elin>..
[11:26:44]<clark>inflate currency, bonds devalued, insurance carriers also have financial crisis...
[11:27:30]<cook>
[11:27:40]<clark>battles between bond holders and banks as to priority
[11:30:13]<Campbell>LogNote: cas change T17-T18
[11:31:15]<Berry>So there´s the real world, and then there´s Wall St...
[11:32:46]<Shapiro>Enter/?
[11:34:37]<Michalski>actually, Eldred v Ashcroft will only lessen a terrible regime
[11:34:47]<Michalski>it will take something different to change our culture for the better
[11:35:00]<Michalski>Eldred v Ashcroft: http://eldred.cc/
[11:35:48]<Michalski>but they could say *all* the extensions are invalid?
[11:35:52]<Weinberger>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/works/lessig/eldred/us_resp/us.doc.html
[11:36:28]<Gillmor>unlikely that all previous extensions will be found invalid
[11:36:38]<Weinberger>http://lawschool.stanford.edu/~erika/eldred.shtml
[11:40:20]<Michalski>Dan, I didn´t know that was on the table
[11:40:30]<Michalski>who are we? is a great question
[11:43:09]<Elin>..
[11:47:05]<Shirky>the economist has an interesting article on the real estate bubble in the last issue
[11:48:11]<Shirky>http://www.economist.com/search/search.cfm?qr=%22real+estate%22&area=1&cb=46&Submit2=Go
[11:50:46]<Shapiro>the Grateful Dead, Janis Ian, Chuck D
[11:53:19]<clark>steve kamman here borrowing a machine - we don´t need a big name star to champion net-based music, we need to create a big name star using the net. We need one artist who gets big through a song passed by e-mail through colleges and high schools and rolling stone and virgin records totally misses it until its in their face.
[11:53:32]<Weinberger>Porter vs. Roxane Celebrity Deathmatch!
[11:55:23]<Petrovic>God gave Porter his share, and my share, of seratonin :-)
[11:56:05]<Weinberger>Of those three, one is defunct, one hasn´t had a hit in 30 years. We need *
[11:56:35]<Weinberger>...a *mainstream* band or 2 to go Web...
[11:57:13]<Weinberger>And, yes, steve, I agree that we need that also.
[11:57:59]<clark>Kamman: Janis Ian, Courtney Love (someone got links?)
[11:58:43]<Black> http://www.janisian.com
[11:59:07]<Michalski>I put a list of links here on my site: http://www.sociate.com/Must-See/Read/read.shtml
[11:59:24]<Shapiro> http://www.hhrc.org
[11:59:29]<Robles>I am with Porter /greet/
[11:59:45]<Shapiro> http://www.hrrc.org corrected
[12:00:43]<kaminski>Phil Agre archive: http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/
[12:01:01]<clark>http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html
[12:01:26]<clark>(sorry, that´s Red Rock eaters)
[12:02:46]<Shapiro>lots of GPS locator devices are being introduced
[12:03:11]<Shirky>GPS isn´t presence
[12:03:18]<Shirky>gps is "where are you?"
[12:03:23]<Shirky>presence is "are you there?"
[12:03:42]<Shapiro>child and pet locator devices use GPS
[12:03:43]<Aizu>what is then "I am here"
[12:04:13]<Shirky>"push presence"?
[12:04:34]<clark>good decisions don´t show up as "BEST" for years
[12:06:25]<Elin> /greencard/
[12:06:55]<Elin> /greencard/
[12:06:57]<Elin> /greencard/
[12:06:59]<Elin> /greencard/
[12:07:13]<Shapiro>Thanks David!!!!
[12:07:26]<Michalski> /greencard/
[12:07:30]<Shapiro> /greencard/
[12:07:45]<Cukier> /greencard/
[12:08:00]<Robles> /greencard/