Marvin Ammori

Various 4G companies (including Sprint Nextel and Clearwire) will make the case for auctioning spectrum in the D block to Congress.

Andy Bochman documents how inter-agency fighting is inhibiting efforts to enhance the cybersecurity of our power grids.

The New New Internet runs down some of the highlights of Eastern Europe’s largest hacker convention, including a keynote from Bruce Schneier, whose most recent notable engagement was at the 3rd annual UNL Space and Cyber Policy Conference in DC.

The FCC is looking to complete the digital TV transition by addressing the remaining issues for low power TV stations (channels 52-69).

Europeans are proposing a pro-democratic Internet treaty. And it’s being compared to the 1967 Space Treaty. If it takes off, this’ll keep both sides the Nebraska Space & Telecom Program busy. We’ll have advice to give.

Europe has proposed a global Internet Treaty to protect the net from political interference and place into international law its founding principles of open standards, net neutrality, freedom of expression and pluralistic governance.

The draft law was compared to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty as the Council of Europe presented it to web luminaries from around the world at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Vilnius, Lithuania, this week.

This line was also interesting:

“Openness and interoperability” and “network neutrality” would become two of 12 Principles of Internet Governance.

Ars Technica gives its take on the RCN settlement and its implications for “reasonable network management” in the future.

Washington continues to struggle with cybersecurity direction: “You’ve got a lot of agreement on what the problem is but very little agreement on the solution.”

Participants from throughout the world are gathered in Vilnius, Lithuania, this week for the fifth-annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF).

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued its first Guidelines for Smart Grid Cyber Security, which includes high-level security requirements and a framework for assessing risks.

Telecompaper reports on a deal Time Warner and Cablevision struck with the City of New York,  in which the two provide wi-fi access in city parks in exchange for the city renewing the companies’ franchises.