BigHook2003: Operating Models for New Networks
Woods Hole, Massachusetts, September 10-12, 2003
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Outputs from BigHook2003

The Theme of BigHook2003

The theme of BigHook2003 is, "Operating Models for New Networks." In other words, we're asking, "Who builds the new network, who operates it, maintains it, improves it? And for whose benefit?" Usually this question is couched in terms of business models, but we're asking about operating models because we'd like to explore whether operating networks these days might best be done by non-business organizations. We don't deny that there's business to be done using networks and business to be done supplying network components, or even that there's business to be done building and operating the new network, but we want to take a broader look at the best ways to build and operate networks that includes ideas of user ownership, common good, and the roles of various governmental and non-governmental organizations.

As experts in various aspects of networking, we''re asking, "How do we achieve the best network that technology will allow?" Monopoly? (And if so, an old form of government sanctioned monopoly or a more entrepreneurial (and potentially brutal) form of monopoly?) Competition? (And if so, given Googin's Paradox, is infrastructure competition even possible? And if so, will competition take the form of duopoly, free-for-all, regulated competition, or something new?) Or are there government/utility models, with common costs folded into the tax base, that will advance the availability of access and avoid the mistakes of the past? Or has the technology developed to a point where customer-owned, customer-financed carrierless networks are feasible? Or maybe there are new models for building and operating networks to be discovered.

Past BigHook Themes:
BigHook2000: The Network We Really Want
BigHook2001: The Boundaries of the Network
BigHook2002: Decisions that Shape Networks

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Schedule (work in progress, check back for more details)

Wednesday, 9/10
Noon to 2:00 PM: Check in, lunch, meet fellow participants.
2:00 to 3:30 PM, Session 1a: Introductions
3:30 to 4:00 PM: break
4:00 to 5:30 PM, Session 1b:
5:30 to 8:00 PM: Dinner, fishing, music
8:00 to 8:30 PM, Special Musical Treat
8:30 to 9:30 PM, Session 2:

Thursday - 9/11
7:00 to 8:30 AM: Breakfast, fishing.
8:30 to 10:00 AM, Session 3a:
10:00 to 10:30 AM: break
10:30 AM to Noon, Session 3b:
Noon to 2:00 PM: Lunch, fishing, music.
2:00 to 3:30 PM, Session 4a:
3:30 to 4:00 PM: break
4:00 to 5:30, Session 4b:
5:30 to 8:00 PM: Dinner, fishing, music.
8:30 to 9:30 PM, Session 5:

Friday - 9/12
7:00 to 8:30 AM: Breakfast, fishing.
8:30 to 10:00 AM, Session 6a:
10:00 to 10:30 AM: break
10:30 AM to Noon, Session 6b:
Noon to 2:00 PM: Lunch, fishing, music.

1:00 PM to ~6:00 PM: post-BigHook sail on the "When and If"
Space is limited -- contact Jim Forster (forster@cisco.com) for details

Saturday - 9/13

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Participants

 

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Biographies

David Beckemeyer
I joined EarthLink in 1995 and served as vice president of engineering for three years, then as CTO. Now, as the company's Distinguished Research Engineer, I pursue various research initiatives and provide strategic advisory to executive management. Prior to joining EarthLink, I founded Beckemeyer Development (BDT.COM) in 1985. BDT.COM provided general Internet consulting and design engineering services, including Intranet design and implementation, security consulting, firewalls, intruder detection and response, and Internet integration. BDT.COM had a world-wide customer base consisting of corporations, unversities, and government agencies. Out of demand from customers, in 1994, I added regional Internet access to the company's services. I met Sky Dayton in 1994 and helped him determine the technology requirements for his ISP venture. In July 1994, BDT.COM delivered, installed and configured the router, Sun servers, and 10 modems which started EarthLink Network. The company provisioned their first account that day. In 1995 EarthLink acquired Beckemeyer Development and hired me as vice president of engineering. Prior to founding BDT.COM, I was a senior software engineer at Integrated Automation, Inc. and before that, I was a software engineer at Nicolet Zeta Corporation (formerly Zeta). David has a SIP Wiki and a blog.

Yochai Benkler
Yochai is a Professor at the New York University School of Law. He is the Director of the Engleberg Center for Innovation Law and Policy, and of the Information Law Institute. His research focuses on the effects of laws that regulate information production and exchange on the distribution of control over information flows, knowledge, and cultural production in the digital environment. He has written about rules governing infrastructure, such as telecommunications and broadcast law, rules governing private control over information, such as intellectual property, privacy, and e-commerce, and constitutional law. Professor Benkler teaches information law and policy in the digital environment, communications law and property law. Before coming to NYU, Benkler clerked for Associate Justice Stephen Breyer of the United States Supreme Court, and had earlier been an associate in the corporate practice group of Ropes & Gray in Boston. He received his J.D from Harvard Law School and his LL.B. from Tel-Aviv University. At both schools he was an editor of the law review.

Scott O. Bradner
http://www.sobco.com/sob/sob.html

Richard H. Campbell
Consulting engineer in audio, acoustics and related control systems. Multitrack location recording and surround sound mastering. I also teach acoustics and audio engineering in the ECE Department at WPI (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

Anders Comstedt
Anders recently retired as CEO of AB Stokab, a telecom network infrastructure provider in Stockholm, Sweden. He is remains an advisor to the City in telecom issues, in particular related to deregulation and business development. As a former chairman of the company handling domain names in the .se domain, he has been involved in the Swedish Internet development. Prior to that he has had several executive positions in the telecoms industry. This includes subsidiaries of both Telia, and the Ericsson group, where he worked with networks and fibre optics. He has also been an advisor in business development. He is 52 years old and has an MSEE from Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Steve Crocker
Dr. Crocker is CEO and co-founder of Shinkuro, Inc., a start up company focused on dynamic sharing of information across the Internet. He is also on the board of the Internet Society, and chair of ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee. Dr. Crocker has been involved in the Internet since its inception. In the late 1960's and early 1970's, while he was a graduate student at UCLA, he was part of the team that developed the protocols for the Arpanet and laid the foundation for today's Internet. He organized the Network Working Group, which was the forerunner of the modern Internet Engineering Task Force and initiated the Request for Comment (RFC) series of notes through which protocol designs are documented and shared. He remained active in the Internet standards work through the IETF and IAB. For this work, Dr. Crocker was awarded the 2002 IEEE Internet Award. Dr. Crocker experience includes research management at DARPA, USC/ISI and The Aerospace Corporation, vice president of Trusted Information Systems, and co-founder of CyberCash, Inc. and Longitude Systems, Inc. Dr. Crocker earned his BA in math and PhD in computer science at UCLA, and he studied artificial intelligence at MIT.

Timothy Denton
I am a lawyer by training and a political philosopher by inclination. I like to think about the political and economic effects of network architectures. I have done telecom law and policy in Ottawa and more recently have been working for Tucows on domain name issues. I read a lot of science and technology books, hate the effects of monopolies, secular or religious, and go hiking in the Gatineau hills near Ottawa when I am not working. I have three kids, two of whom are in university. I enjoy my life. I amalso the animator of Timber, Canada's Top Internet Predator. Timber has been very successful in the last year culling the weak to feed the strong. He has much to report to fellow pack members.

Cory Doctorow
Cory (www.craphound.com) is a staffer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org), a member-supported nonprofit group that works to uphold civil liberties in technology law, policy and standards. Doctorow works as a policy researcher, spokesman and standards-body participant in issues related to privacy, freedom of speech, copyright and spectrum allocation. He is the co-editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net), a popular weblog, and is a regular contributor to Wired Magazine and elsewhere. He is an award-winning science fiction writer, and his first novel, "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom," was published by Tor Books last January and simultaneously released as a free electronic download under the terms of a Creative Commons license (craphound.com/down).

Pontus Ekman
Elderly former pioneeer ISP, retired.

Greg Elin
Greg is a research developer specializing in databases and interactive technologies. Since the early 1990's, he has helped large and small organizations articulate requirements and prototype new technologies. His experience in New York's technology community ranges from NYNEX to dot.coms to non-profits. Since 1998, he has specialized in database and technology services. Mr. Elin has extensive experience working with institutional and distributed data. He holds a Masters degree from the NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program and is currently possessed by the idea of "intimate computing" and developing a new kind of digital photo album.

James Forster
Since earning a B.S. degree in computer engineering from Rutgers University in 1976, I have worked in the computer industry, specializing in communication, networks and operating systems. After working for two Silicon Valley startups (Synapse Computers and Plexus Computers) that between them went through more than $50 million before failing I learned something about how startups should NOT be run. I joined a different sort of company with two dozen employees, Cisco, in 1988. I wrote Cisco's first OSI implementation in 1989 (at that time OSI was The Next Big Thing) and subsequently managed engineering development in various areas of router software, including routing protocols, network management, wide-area networking such as X.25, Frame Relay and ISDN. Since 1993 I have helped determine strategy for new technologies such as ATM (at that time ATM was The Next Big Thing). For three years I worked on the system architecture for Cisco's Cable Router program, which happily helped the cable companies beat the RBOCs in the US Broadband market. I spent a year in the Content Networking group trying to understand the relationship between content and network infrastructure. I'm quite interested in wireless networking but my day job these days is designing digital video networks for cable companies. I am an author of RFC-1613, "X.25 Over TCP", and a Cisco Systems Distinguished Engineer.

Thomas A. Freeburg
Tom recently retired from Motorola, where he founded and headed the Canopy wireless broadband operation. Most of his 39-year career at Motorola has been focused on wireless data in one form or another; he has over 60 patents that span many of the basics for that industry. He is now Executive Vice President and Director of Corporate Strategy for MemoryLink, a company that is focusing on bringing new technologies and applications to the wireless Internet.

Douglas Frosst
Douglas, Strategic Marketing Manager in Cisco's Thought Leadership group, is responsible for developing and delivering research, analysis and insight of interest to Cisco customers and partners, focusing specifically on Service Providers and economic issues of networks. Douglas has held several additional Cisco roles. As Product Line Manager,his initiatives led Cisco to #1 in access server market share. His exploration of telephony services assisted with several acquisitions and post-closing integrations. And he has been a contributor to Cisco's Service Provider marketing and strategy. Before joining Cisco, Douglas did marketing and product management at Gandalf Technologies and Eicon Technology.

Roxane I. Googin
Roxane operates a private consultancy for portfolio managers covering high technology investment strategy. Because her clients manage billions of dollars, her interest is in keeping them ahead of large, structural, changes in technology and the economy. Her conerns of last year remain in place, namely how will all of this cheap bandwidth be funded. A new concern is how the hundreds of billions of dollars in legacy telecom debt will get paid back, in the face of falling bandwidth prices resulting from a new paradigm. No wonder equipment sales are down. We are really stuck in the mud here, beyond the "post PC era", but not ready for the "collaborative supply chain" Net-based application era. How do we cross that chasm? What has to happen? Continuing issues impacting the linkage between technology adoption and value creation include: What is the long-term economic model for an industry with an infinitely expandable basic unit of production at low marginal costs on top of a high initial cost of entry? How will the associated decline in incumbent fortunes be handled? How can we collectively protect the pure transport model of the Internet when money can only be made by polluting it with "value added services"? The "problem child" is clearly "Internet economics". However, they must be allowed to continue if we are to leverage the Internet to its potential. How can the socialize the cost of managing layer-one transport without creating another Amtrak?

Charles W.K. Gritton
I am the CTO of Hilllcrest Communications, a new startup working in the overlapping areas of media and telecommunications. My prior work history includes a stint as President and CTO of Broadsword Technologies, as the CTO for the NTG division at Tellabs, a Director of Portfolio Planning and Management for Tellabs corporate, an engineering manager at Bell Labs, now Lucent, and CTO/VP of Engineering at Coherent Communications (acquired by Tellabs). I'm dedicated to what might be called the 'idiot savant' network as opposed to a walled-garden "smart" network or the transport-only "stupid" network and the products I've been involved with demonstrate that.

Sebastian Hassinger
Sebastian is currently the senior strategist for the Pervasive Computing initiative at IBM. He previously was strategist for the CTO of Tivoli and Tivoli's Internet and Pervasive Management business units in the late 90's. At Apple he created one of the first corporate customer support sites using a stolen Sparcstation 10 and a pirated Sprint T1 (better to ask forgiveness...). He has written 6 technical books, opinion columns in Web Informant magazine, and holds several patents. He now splits his time 51percent in Westchester county, 51percent in Nova Scotia and whatever remains pursing an MBA at Columbia University.

Dewayne Hendricks
Dewayne is CEO, of Dandin Group, Inc., a Fremont, California based broadband wired and wireless data devices and services company. He is also a member of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Technological Advisory Council (TAC http://www.fcc.gov/oet/tac). Prior to that he was General Manager, Wireless Business Unit, for Com21, Inc. Before Com21, he was Co-Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation Wireless Field Tests for Education project. He was formerly the CEO and co-founder of Tetherless Access Ltd., which was one of the first companies to develop and deploy Part 15 unlicensed wireless metropolitan area data networks which used the TCP/IP protocols. He has participated in the installation of these networks in other parts of the world such as Kenya, Tonga, Mexico, Canada and Mongolia. He has been involved with radio since his teens when he received his amateur radio operator's license. He is a director of the Wireless Communications Alliance, an industry group which represents manufacturers in the unlicensed radio industry. More information on Dewayne is available at http://www.dandin.com/.

David Hofstatter
Dave is Founder and President of CallWave, Inc. After many years driving the innovation process (or lack thereof) within the traditional value chain of telecom carriers and their vendors, in 1998, Mr. Hofstatter stepped outside of the old telecom world, and defined a truely customer-centered approach to telecommunications services at CallWave. He is responsible for the experience of over 7 million on-line and 25 million offline users of CallWave's services, which provide internet-enhanced call delivery of calls which have been missed because a CallWave subscriber is on-line and their line is busy, or because they are away from the phone. Prior to founding CallWave, Mr. Hofstatter was responsible for strategy and advanced product development at Digital Sound Corporation where he pioneered the technology behind web-based unified messaging in 1995 and made early discoveries of the significant market adoption barriers for complex "unified" services. Prior to Digital Sound, Mr. Hofstatter began his career in 1983 with his current business partner Bob Dolan, at Mr. Dolan's first startup, ComDesign, Inc, a manufacturer of packet-based switching equipment. Mr. Hofstatter has a degree in Economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Tim Horan
Tim is a Managing Director heading CIBC's global communication services equity research team. He joined CIBC World Markets over five years ago, and has been a communications services analyst for nine years. Tim researches a broad range of communications companies with a focus on data communications, and the migration of the industry towards horizontal segmentation. He was chosen as a Wall Street Journal All Star Analyst in 2000, 2001 and 2002. Prior to joining the company, Tim was a Senior Equity Analyst at ROBERTSON STEPHENS where he oversaw the telecommunications wireline services team. Prior to 1997, Tim was a research analyst at Smith Barney, a group that was ranked number two among wireline services teams in the 1997 Greenwich Associates Institutional Survey, and a perennial winner of the Institutional Investor analyst survey. Prior to becoming an equity analyst, Tim worked as a civil engineer on various projects in the New York area. Tim received a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Rutgers University in 1986 and an MBA degree in Finance, with Beta Gamma Sigma Honors, from Columbia Business School in 1994. His list of direct coverage includes BellSouth, SBC Communications, Verizon, AT&T, Qwest, Sprint, Level 3, ITXC, WebEx, Ptek, Raindance and Genesys.

Christian Huitema
Christian is currently working as "architect" at Microsoft, in the "Windows Networking & Communications" group. This group is in charge of all the networking support for Windows, including the evolution of TCP/IP support, IPv6, Real-Time Communication using SIP, Peer-to-Peer and Universal Plug and Play (UPnP.) Until January 2000, he was chief scientist, and Telcordia Fellow, in the Internet Architecture Research laboratory of Telcordia, working on Internet Quality of Service and Internet Telephony. Prior to that, he was a researcher at CNET and then at INRIA in France, where he worked on innovative communication protocols, software and compilers, including an IP based H.261 videoconferencing system, IVS, doing video over the Internet in 1994. He has written several books and publications. He was a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) from 1991 to 1996, its chair between April 1993 and July 1995. He was a trustee of the Internet Society from 1995 to 2001. He is a member of the board of the SIP Forum, since October 2001.

David S. Isenberg
David spent 12 years at AT&T Bell Labs until his 1997 essay,"The Rise of the Stupid Network," was received with acclaim everywhere in the global telecommunications community with one exception -- at AT&T itself. So Isenberg left AT&T in 1998 to found isen.com, LLC (an independent telecom analysis firm based in Cos Cob, Connecticut) and to publish The SMART Letter, an opinionated commentary on the communications revolution and its enemies.

Joichi Ito
Joi Ito is the founder and CEO of Neoteny (www.neoteny.com), venture capital firm focused on personal communications and enabling technologies. He has created numerous Internet companies including PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan. In 1997 Time Magazine ranked him as a member of the CyberElite. In 2000 he was ranked among the "50 Stars of Asia" by Business Week and commended by the Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications for supporting the advancement of IT. In 2001 the World Economic Forum chose him as one of the 100 "Global Leaders of Tomorrow" for 2002.

Nancy Jesuale
Ms. Jesuale is currently the President of NetCity Engineering Inc., a design and engineering practice for local government networking, specializing in public safety infrastructure and broadband fiber networks for voice, data, and CLEC applications. Currently Ms. Jesuale is advising the City of Portland, OR, the City of Los Angeles, the District of Columbia and the Institute for Wireless Network Security (WinSeC) at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. Ms. Jesuale's practice focuses on public safety radio network architectures, interoperability and development of fiber optic networking. Ms. Jesuale is also an appointee to the National Task Force on Interoperability sponsored by the US Department of Justice, and the Governor's Statewide Interoperability Executive Council in Oregon. Most recently Ms. Jesuale was the Director of ComNet, a Bureau of the City of Portland, Oregon responsible for all voice, data and video communications systems in the City, and provider of regional communications services for government entities throughout the region. Ms. Jesuale is also the creator and strategic planner of the City of Portland's IRNE Network, a certified Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) providing advanced data and voice services to the City and the region. The IRNE provides a fiber optic backbone connecting to over 300 public buildings. Previously, she was Director of Strategic Planning for Telecommunications for the City of Los Angeles, and has served as the Operations Director of Oregon ED-NET for the State of Oregon. Ms. Jesuale has been in the telecommunications industry since 1976.

Peter Kaminski
I work with collaborative information and communication technologies, and have been an Internet services pioneer as a founder of Yipes Communications, NanoSpace, NETCOM Online, and PDIAL. I am a bridge builder. Five centuries ago, I would have built with stones, spanning rivers to connect people on opposite banks; these days I use computers, software and networks, and span global geography and time. I have deep professional experience in information and communication technologies, user interfaces, interactive technology, natural language, object-oriented systems analysis, digital graphics and sound, and entrepreneurial business.

W. Stephen Kamman
Steve is an Executive Director covering Networking Equipment and Internet Infrastructure. Previously, he was part of the large cap Telecom Services research team. Before joining CIBC, Steve was in Corporate Development at MCI Telecommunications Corp. where he worked on acquisitions and new ventures with a focus on new data technologies. Steve also managed wireless strategy and spectrum auctions at Avantel, an MCI Joint Venture in Mexico. Prior to MCI, Steve worked in the Telecom and Technology practice of Andersen Consulting's strategy consulting arm in New York and Melbourne, Australia. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BA Cum Laude in both Economics and History from Yale University.

Jeff Lawrence
Jeff founded Clivia Systems in April 2002 after leaving Intel. Clivia is exploring a number of opportunities at this time, but currently has no staff besides Jeff and offers no products. For more information, see http://www.cliviasystems.com/company/company.htm

Howard Levy
Howard Levy's musical adventures include journeys into jazz, pop, rock, world music, Latin, classical, folk, blues, country, theater, and film. He has appeared on hundreds of cd's, won a Grammy, won a Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Original Music for a Play, and performed many times on American and European television. Universally acknowledged as the world's most advanced diatonic harmonica
player, Howard has developed a fully chromatic style on the standard 10 - hole diatonic harmonica, revolutionizing harmonica playing and taking the instrument into totally new territory. He is also an accomplished pianist and plays many other instruments as well- flute, ocarina, mandolin, saxophone, percussion, etc.

Robert W. Lucky
Bob serves as chairman of the FCC's Technical Advisory Council. He recently retired from his position as Corporate Vice President, Applied Research, Telcordia.

Andrew Maffei
Andy is a communications specialist who has worked at Woods Hole for the past nineteen years, helping innovative oceanographers and engineers to use networks of all sorts to do their research. His most recent work, NEPTUNE, is a collaborative project aimed at installing a multi-Gigabit Ethernet backbone around a tectonic plate, in 2500 meters of water off the west coast of the US and Canada. This is being done to enable the long-term (30 year), multi-disciplinary study of a single chunk of ocean. He also runs a project called SeaNet that spaoratically connects oceanographic research vessels to the Internet.

William G. Malette II
Community fiber activist from Seattle area.

Francois Menard
I've done more than 30 projects/ studies on private fibre optic deployment in Canada for several school boards, universities and municipalities. Today we have about 33% of all schools and nearly all university and colleges on Dark Fibre in Quebec (more than 3000 establishments). Lots of these organizations are going through the RISQ network in Montreal for peering with the Internet. There is a fascinating amount of consolidation happening and I'm interested of understanding its effects on the economics of providing educational, commercial and residential next-generation services.

Jerry Michalski
http://www.sociate.com/About_Jerry_Michalski/Bios/bios.shtml

Gardner Miller
Airplane House Manager and Historian, dabbler in many things. Gardner's biography is full of colorful stories. Ask him about the time he and a fellow diver barely survived the near death-jaw clutches of a hungry shark . . .

Prashanta Mukherjee
Prashanta was one of the four ministerial nominees on the government's Electronic Commerce Action Team (www.ecat.govt.nz) nominated for his practical expertise in e-business and e-commerce. He has also served the Internet Society of New Zealand as an elected councillor. He is a trustee of The Big Idea Charitable Trust, the virtual connection point for the creative people and industry. He provides his ICT expertise in the development and operation of the trust online hub at www.thebigidea.co.nz. He has also started a venture in agribusiness to grow our exports to the Indian market.
Amongst his achievements are:
· first primary research of New Zealand business adoption of e-commerce in 1998,
· substantial contribution to the New Zealand National e-commerce strategy development 1999 to 2000,
· contribution to the official New Zealand e-commerce guide for SMEs ( 2000).
Some recent projects are:
· Broadband Strategy for a City Council examining all aspects of Broadband Supply and Demand based on actual survey of businesses and Broadband suppliers in New Zealand.
· Advice and guidance to three cities near Wellington, NZ to enable the formation of a community based Telecommunications entity to deliver current and future services outside the classical telco model.
· Broadband Expertise to Wellington Regional Economic Development Agency.

Andrew Odlyzko
Andrew is Director of the interdisciplinary Digital Technology Center and an Assistant Vice President for Research at the University of Minnesota. Prior to assuming that position in 2001, he devoted 26 years to research and research management at Bell Telephone Laboratories, AT&T Bell Labs, and AT&T Labs, as that organization evolved and changed its name. He has written over 150 technical papers in computational complexity, cryptography, number theory, combinatorics, coding theory, analysis, probability theory, and related fields, and has three patents. The projects he has managed have been in diverse areas, such as security, formal verification methods, parallel and distributed computation, and auction technology. In recent years he has also been working on electronic publishing, electronic commerce, and economics of data networks, and is the author of such widely cited papers as "Tragic loss or good riddance: The impending demise of traditional scholarly journals," "The bumpy road of electronic commerce," "Paris Metro Pricing for the Internet," "Content is not king," and "The history of communications and its implications for the Internet."

Jorge Ortiz
Founder and CEO of Internet por Fibra (Interfibra.net), a startup building FTTH communities in Mexican cities. Entrepreneur since 1985, currently serving as Chairman of Grupo Teledinamica, a group of companies selling enterprise telecom equipment and services.

Robert Pepper
Pepper has been Chief of the Office of Plans and Policy (OPP) at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) since December 1989. Under Pepper's leadership, OPP is responsible for policy questions that cut across traditional industry and institutional boundaries, especially those arising from the development of new technologies. At OPP, Pepper's responsibilities have included leading teams implementing provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996; assessing the deployment of broadband technologies; assessing the development of the Internet and electronic commerce; developing the framework for digital television; designing and implementing the first spectrum auctions in the United States; developing more market-based spectrum policies; assessing competition in the video marketplace; and assessing the impact of the development of the Internet on traditional communications policy structures. Before joining the FCC, Pepper was Director of the Annenberg Washington Program in Communications Policy Studies. He also has been Director of Domestic Policies and Acting Associate Administrator at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and developed a program on communications, computers, and information at the National Science Foundation. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also received his doctorate.

Mark S. Petrovic
Dr. Mark S. Petrovic is Vice President of Research and Development at Earthlink, Inc. Before joining Earthlink, Mark served in Operations at Sprint Communications Corporation's consumer Internet group in Kansas City, MO. Prior to that he served as Visiting Scientist at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY. He holds Bachelor and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in physics from Oklahoma State University.

Richard Prytula
Richard is President and Founding Managing Partner of TechnoCap Inc. since 1993. TechnoCap Inc. is a venture capital company headquartered in Montreal with $265 million CDN of committed capital. TechnoCap's investors include Bombardier Trust Canada, The Boeing Company, Bombardier Trust United Kingdom, Desjardins Pension Fund, the Solidarity Fund QFL Quebec, CDP Capital ­ Technology Ventures, the National Bank of Canada and TechnoAnge Inc. TechnoCap invests in massively parallel technology companies, particularly networking hardware and enterprise software and services. TechnoCap is in the business of building technology companies. Mr. Prytula is a member of the Board of Directors of various companies including YottaYotta, Hyperchip and BigBangwidth. Prior to TechnoCap, Mr. Prytula was chairman, president & CEO of the LNS Group, a defence, aerospace and manufacturing group. Mr. Prytula holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan and an M.B.A. from the University of Western Ontario.

David P. Reed
Dr. Reed is, by inclination, a designer of large-scale systems structures and concepts - algorithms, protocols, architectures, business models, and processes. His career includes 15 years as a student and professor of computer science and engineering at MIT, 10 years leading advanced commercial personal computer software innovation as v.p. R&D/chief scientist at Software Arts and Lotus Development Corp., 4 years as a senior scientist at Interval Research Corp., and 4 years as an independent technology strategy advisor and consultant to industry in areas related to computing and communications infrastructure and applications. He is known for key early contributions to the architecture of the Internet in the '70's. He has made major contributions to the design, implementation, and technology strategy of a variety of very successful commercial software and systems products.

Charles Sands
Charlie has been interested in telecommunications and the Internet since 1998 when he first joined the Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications (CUT) (See: http://www.unmetered.org.uk). As an American executive for an international oil company that transferred him to London, he was dismayed to find that Internet access in the UK was metered by the minute. After joining CUT, he solicited and won Tim Berners-Lee's endorsement of the campaign and Charlie was drafted onto the CUT Committee, a group of seven individuals managing the campaign, eventually being elected Moderator of the Campaign in 2000. By working closely with the British telecoms regulator OFTEL and AOL, CUT played a key role in bringing about the creation of FRIACO (Flat Rate Internet Access Call Origination) wholesale tariffs which provided a sound financial basis for sustainable flat-rate Internet dial-up access in the UK. The campaign was wound up in June 2001 when CUT declared victory having fully achieved its goals. Charlie currently divides his time between the UK and Thailand, where he is conducting Access to Broadband Campaigns whose objective is to accelerate the deployment of high speed - "broadband" - Internet access throughout each country and to make it as affordable and accessible as possible to all members of the community (See: http://www.abcampaign.org.uk)

Bill St. Arnaud
Bill is Senior Director of Network Projects for CANARIE Inc., Canada's advanced Internet development organization and has led the development, coordination and implementation of the world's first national optical R&D Internet network - CA*net 3. Prior to his appointment at CANARIE, Mr. St. Arnaud was a consultant and chief engineer at Switzer Engineering where he developed and patented encryption devices for transmitting high quality video for TV broadcasts, Project Manager at Motorola where he was involved in the nationwide deployment of a Police wireless communications system, President and founder of TSA Proforma - software and LAN company that developed networked trading systems for brokers and traders which was sold to Eastern Datacomm and ABC Communications (Hong Kong) in 1988, consultant for a number of high tech start ups, and Project Director for Vision 2000.

Sarah Lai Stirland
Sarah is a freelance journalist in the Washington, DC area. She writes about Cyberspace, the Internet and telecommunications policy for The Seattle Times and other publications. Her last article about the fate of online communities at newspaper Web sites appeared in The Online Journalism Review, a publication of The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. She also writes the "connected" blog for corante.com.

Theodore Stout
For over 30 years, Ted Stout has provided strategic and tactical guidance to those leading the convergence of emerging technologies with people, process and place; i.e., real world business operations and sourcing relationships. He works for both corporations (and their internal, and extended supply chains and ecosystems), as well as for regional economic development and infrastructure public/private initiatives (city, state, nation, multi-national). Some of his specialty areas include technology transfer and diffusion, economic and capital strategies, matching education and R&D outputs with profitable businesses, Trust and security, healthcare/design/and longevity, Logistics, global supply chain and alliance development, sourcing and Infra-Services. Previous to founding ROI in 1981, Ted ran a $2.4 billion operating asset portfolio (and $390MM annual operating budget) for the largest subsidiary of one of the largest corporations in the world. Friends and clients have called him a Professional Generalist, Economic Therapist and Improvisational Strategist. Mr. Stout is an active writer, publishes his own column, and lectures extensively on Corporate Infrastructure Management and new Business Ecosystems, the Canalization of Supply Chains, Building Real-Time Companies, Real-Time Logistics, and human performance in the office of the 21st Century. Ted Stout is the founder of three design and technology companies and of the Operation Save our Schools for Mankind public/private partnership. He invented the Corporate Infrastructure & Resources, Logistics City Services and Virtual Logistics Network business models and their technological frameworks, has won numerous awards for his furniture designs, and designed and built two homes. Ted’s family background is in architecture & urban planning, commercial construction and project management. He was first introduced to computers at the tender age of 5 by his uncle, who worked on the Air Force’s Strategic Air Command computer. He has been unduly affected ever since. Currently, Ted acts as a local, multi-national and international advisor to numerous corporations, industry associations, public organizations, and regional economic development and government authorities.

Steve Stroh
See http://www strohpub.com

Jonathan Thatcher
Jonathan is too modest to submit a biography, instead see http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20000926S0060

Brough Turner
Brough is senior vice president, CTO and co-founder NMS Communications. My current focus is on technology and business strategy for NMS. I also serve on boards of advisors of several high tech companies including Pingtel and StarGen in the telecom field. As a company founder I've worked in marketing, sales and operations, but my background is as an electrical engineer (BSEE from MIT in 1971) and my interests remain centered on technology and business (plus physics, cosmology and evolution, on the side). In the 70s I worked in analytical instrumentation (FT-IR and NMR spectroscopy) and then biomedical instruments (differential white blood cell analyzers). In the mid-80s, I focused on communications productivity tools for PCs (a product called Watson also OEMed as HP's Officetalk). In the early 90s, I focused on computer telephony where I invented the MVIP Bus (a telephony standard for PCs), was a driving force behind the ECTF's H.110/H.110 TDM switching standards and a major contributor to the development of the CompactPCI industry. I write articles for a variety of trade publications and was a regular columnist for Communications Solutions magazine until its recent demise. I also speak at various trade shows (Supercomm, VON, Communications Design, IN-IP World Forum, CT Expo Asia, etc.), mostly on behalf of NMS business interests. While I've recently seen my NMS stock as high as $78 (summer 2000) and below $2 (today), I remain an enthusiastic proponent of communications -- as a business, a career and as an industry of long term benefit to mankind. Communications is a prime enabler of human progress. It was our ability to speak that originally separated us from other primates. And whether it's written language, the printing press, telegraphy or television, each subsequent advance in communications has helped mankind develop economically, politically and culturally, by exposing us to new ideas and by enabling person-to-person collaboration. Clearly there's still some consolidation needed in the aftermath of the telecom bubble, but writing off mistakes and starting anew is something our economy does reasonably well. More frustrating are the politics of first mile access. Luckily the Internet is global while regulation is local, national or at most regional (Europe), so one can hope that success in one jurisdiction can be used to pressure politicians in more backwards jurisdictions (the US...). Meanwhile, the number of mobile phone subscribers worldwide continues to increase, the number of Internet subscribers continues to increase, and both phenomena extend to every corner of our planet. Communications is a prime enabler of human progress, so I'm very optimistic for the coming decades.

David Weinberger
http://www.hyperorg.com/evident/bio.html

Theodore M. Weitz
Ted Weitz is responsible for all of ITXC’s legal matters including contracts, securities transactions, commercial issues, and litigation. Ted is a recognized expert on computer law and global telecommunications regulation and has been with the company since July 2001. Prior to joining ITXC, Ted was vice president and general counsel at several technology companies, including Tachion Networks, Inc. and Intel’s Dialogic Division. He was also senior counsel in Intel’s Communications Products Group. He has been lead counsel on numerous major domestic and international transactions, mergers and acquisitions. Ted was vice president and general counsel Dialogic Corporation when Intel purchased the company in 1999. His earlier legal experience, included period of private practice at a major New York law firm, Lucent Technologies, AT&T and UNIX System Laboratories.

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The Sponsors of BigHook2003

Cisco Systems -- Douglas Frosst & Jim Forster

Clivia Systems -- Jeff Lawrence
TechnoCap -- Richard Prytula

The Network Team
Greg Elin for the Session Blog software
Andy Maffei & Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for network connectivity
Tom Freeburg & Motorola for Canopy equipment

Musician in Residence
Howard Levy

The Food
Chef Roland Catering

The Drink
Margaux Gingras & Marci Freedman at Energy Brands for the Smart Water
Carole Quigley at Westport Rivers Winery for the Westport Rivers Wines

The Airplane House
Max Burger, owner
Gardner Miller, caretaker

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