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To: D. K. G. who wrote (12259)	8/7/2002 9:03:21 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 12823

Denis, thanks for bringing that letter to the board. It calls to mind another ftth article from Network World that was posted on the Corning thread yesterday: Message 17844215 Incidentally, David Isenberg was one of the participants, along with myself, members of the Grant County team, and about thirty others, in a recent online asset based networking symposium that was moderated by Gordon Cook. And when the writer to Isenberg mentioned the law that requires end users to own their own last mile piece of the puzzle this is exactly what asset based means, and it applies to wireless assets, as well. The Grant County PUD and the other related projects taking place in the State of Washington were covered during those symposium discussions in great length - the full extent of which can be found in the combined Aug/Sept/Oct 2002 issue of the Cook Report on Internet. cookreport.com The full roster of symposium participants consisted of (you may see a couple of familiar SI names here :) Roxane Googin is an equities analyst for fund managers. Roxane has been helping Isenburg and Cook and many others understand why the phone companies – including the LEC s are going to go bankrupt David Isenberg authored the famed stupid network paper in the summer of 97. Bill St Arnaud Director Advanced Network Projects CANARIE. Bill is not offering any guarantee but, if his work on CA*Net4 is successful, within 5 years we might have lambdas on our desktops. It was just about a year ago that Bill coined the term “asset based telecom.” Kevin Kahn, Intel Fellow, Director Communications and Interconnect Technology, Intel Labs. Kevin is concentrat-ing on broadband access to the home, home networking, and Internet issues bearing on these topics. He is also working on wireless technologies, such as Ultra Wideband (UWB) Francois Menard works for IMS Consultants, which pioneered condo fiber builds in Canada. Francois is also an expert on ISP cable interconnection issues in Canada Rich Shockey, Chair of the ENUM work group and very involved with SIP. He is also Senior Manager, Strategic Technology Initiatives, NeuStar Inc. David Horne works on networking and communications architecture for next-gen technology initiatives in the Intel Communications Group, out of the Chief Technology Office. He has been active in the Ethernet in the first mile effort and in studying the economic and technical aspects of FTTH. John Lupton lives in Scotland. His company is blowing fiber into homes and businesses in Monterey Mexico as well as in many other places around the world Marvin Sirbu is Professor of Engineering and Public Policy at Carneigie Mellon University. He has been studying issues involved in bring broadband to the home since the 1980s. MUNCIPAL TELECOM – LAW , REGULATION AND PRACTICE Jim Baller is a principal in The Baller Herbst Law Group, which (in addition to an excellent website on municipal telecom) is the firm that just won a case overturning the Virginia ban on municipally owned telecom networks. Tim Denton is an Ottawa attorney who, among other things, works with many Canadian ISPs and has authored several exceptional ‘nethead’ papers with Francois Menard Miles Fidelman is co-founder and President of non-profit Center for Civic Networking where he serves as editor of the Journal of Municipal Telecommunications, and consults to local governments. Bob Rowe is a member of the Montana Public Service Commission. Has been mentioned by Senator Burns as a candidate for the vacant democratic seat of the FCC. W. Scott McCollough is a lawyer specializing in economic and regulatory issues for ISPs in the state of Texas. He is with the firm Stumpf, Craddock, Massey & Pulman located in Austin. Fred Goldstein is a consultant on CLEC issues with TIAX LLC, a technology consulting firm in Cambridge, MA DOING ASSET BASED /MUNICIPAL TELECOM Coe Hutchison is the Fiber Business Manager for the Grant Co. PUD in Ephrata, Washington Marlon Schaffer runs a wireless ISP in Odessa Washington and is a business partner in KMS Wireless Jeff Michka is an exceptionally savvy telecom activist who lives in Edmonds Washington and who has advised me on and off since 1994. Larry Anglin is the President and founder of Hometown Computing. a central Texas ISP in business since 1996. With operational wireless systems in Hamilton, Gatesville, Stephenville, Clifton, and Comanche, Hometown Computing has Central Texas covered with broadband. Hometown Computing operates wireless access points in cooperation with United Cooperative Services in Meridian, Glen Rose, and Possum Kingdom. Frank Coluccio, President DTI Consulting. Frank designs and builds optical networks in the northeastern US for the largest Wall Street Banks and similar financial institutions. William J. “Billy” Ray, Superintendent, Glasgow Electric Plant Board. The Glasgow EPB is Glasgow's city-owned utility. In addition to providing Glasgow's electric power, the EPB’s high speed, city-wide communications network provides cable television service, computer networking and data for operation of the electric system (and very high speed Internet access).