Remarks at the Digital Broadband Migration Examining the Internet's Ecosystem

I want to thank Dale Hatfield, Phil Weiser, and Silicon Flatirons for the opportunity to speak at this year’s conference. As I talked with Dale and Phil about the topic for my remarks today, I thought I would be a one-person reaction panel, highlighting some of my key takeaways from the conference and talking about how the agenda at NTIA this year might address some of these issues. I knew even before the conference began that speaking here was going to be a daunting task, but nonetheless, I do have some observations about the conference, and hopefully some broader thoughts to leave you with as we end this year’s conference. None of this is fully baked, but hopefully you will at least find it to be worth chewing over. My first observation: I think it is really misleading to call the Internet an ecosystem.1 So, even though I have signed papers that refer to the Internet ecosystem, I’m changing my mind about that.2 Yes, there are a lot of complex interrelationships as we would see in any natural ecosystem.3 But, here’s the big difference for me: I associate the dynamics