•• TEN THINGS SHOULD KNOW LAWYERS ABOUT THE INTERNET .. The COMMONS Initiative: Cooperative Measurement and Modeling of Open Networked Systems KIMBERLY CLAFFY .. CAIDA: Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis BASED AT THE SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER, CENTER AT UCSD .. table of contents .. .... about the author 01 07 Table of contents, Point #6 -08 Author biography How data is KC Claffy being used Kimberly Claffy Point #1 02 Point #7 08 received her Ph. D. Updating legal -10 in Computer Science frameworks Normal regulatory responses doomed from UCSD. She is Director and a prin- Point #2 02 -03 10 cipal investigator Obstacles to progress Point #8 -16 Problematic responses for CAIDA, and an Point #3 03 Adjunct Professor Available data: -05 Point #9 16 of Computer Science a dire picture The news is -19 and Engineering at UCSD. Kimberly’s not all bad research interests include Internet Point #4 05 measurements, data analysis and vi- -06 The problem is not so 20 sualization, particularly with respect new Point #10 Solutions will cross -23 to cooperation and sharing of Internet data. She advocates the use of quanti- Point #5 06 boundaries An absurd situation tative analysis to objectively inform Sponsors, Credits 24 public Internet policy discussions. Her email is
[email protected]. Adapted from: http://www.caida.org/publications/papers/2008/10_things_Lawyers_Should_Know_About_The_Internet 1 2 Last year Kevin Werbach invited me to his Supernova 2007 conference to give a 15- minute vignette on3 the challenge of getting empirical data to inform telecom4 policy. They posted5 the video of my talk last year, and my favorite tech podcast ITConversations , posted the mp3 as an episode last week.