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August 24, 2004
2004 Aspen Summit – August 23rd
This morning I had fully intended to blog this conference since I was told there was Wi-Fi access inside of the conference room. It turned out that the Wi-Fi access was usable for literally about five minutes into the conference and then disappeared. So much for my blogging…
I enjoyed listening to Verisign’s CEO, Statton Sclavos’s keynote address on: “The Transformation of Communications, Commerce & Society” as well listening to the next session a Communications Roundtable on “The Future of the Physical Layer: Access and Property in the Physical Layer.” – especially the comments from Jim Crowe.
FCC Chairman Powell did a Q&A keynote during lunch today that lasted somewhere between 75-90 minutes and addressed a range of subjects. I am sure he provided the fodder that the reporters covering this event needed when they filed their news stories to their editors this afternoon.
After lunch the conference took a break and didn’t start up again until a few hours later with an “informal reception” followed by a series of “working dinners.”
During the afternoon break I took the liberty of exploring Aspen and I took a Gondola ride up the mountain to take in the natural beauty that Aspen is known for. Standing behind me in line was FCC Chairman Powell and I ended up spending a couple of relaxing hours this afternoon with FCC Chairman Powell. While the Aspen Summit continues on Tuesday, I’m confident the time I spent with the Chairman will be my personal highlight of the event.
This evening I sat in the “The Future of Communications Law” session which was an off-the-record open discussion and included an extended group of State and Federal regulators as well as a few service providers and a few people from Capital Hill. This session seemed like a preview of tomorrow morning’s discussion – “Regulating and Deregulating the Physical Layer.”
The rest of tomorrow’s sessions look equally interesting and I’m looking forward to taking the sessions in. My hope is that the folks at the hotel figure out how to deliver working Wi-Fi for more than five minutes…
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