Regulatory & Policy

One of the principal means by which Packet Clearing House works to improve the stability and quality of the Internet is by furthering knowledge of Internet topology and economic concepts among members of the regulatory, finance, business development, and security communities in governments around the world. By assisting policy developers to understand how the Internet operates and how it improves economies, standards of living, and citizens' welfare and education, we believe that we can create a "network effect" by which simultaneous improvement of communications and technological education becomes not only self-sustaining within developing regions but mutually reinforcing as well. Critical to our success in this regard is the high degree to which we leverage and build on local expertise by supporting actors within their own communities through workshops, cross-training, knowledge-base development, and technological assistance.

Below is a list of activities, workshops and papers covering Internet regulatory and policy topics authored by PCH staff in the past years.

• Workshop on Country Code Top Level Domain Administration and Operations at the United States Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI). This is recurrent workshop, twice per year.

• Workshop on Communications Infrastructure Economics and Regulation at the United States Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI). This is recurrent workshop, twice per year.

• Good Practices in Internet Exchange Point Documentation and Measurement (PDF), Working Party on Communications Infrastructures and Services Policy, OECD, 2017. 

• Keynote at the Canadian ISP Summit 2016 presenting the results of the PCH/CIRA study on Canadian Network Interconnection (PDF), November 2016.

• Keynote at the BEREC expert workshop on IP-Interconnection in co-operation with the OECD presenting the 2016 Survey of Internet Carrier Interconnection Agreements (PDF) , November 2016. Session recorded in video.

• Keynote at the CTU Regulatory Forum on C&W-Columbus Acquisition: Quantifying the Consequences for Caribbean Competition (PDF), 2014.

• Workshop on The role of IXPs in growing the digital economy (PDF), organised at the IGF 2014.

• Workshop on Building Technical Communities in Developing Regions (PDF), organised at the IGF 2014

• Internet Traffic Exchange: Market Developments and Policy Challenges, OECD Digital Economy Papers, No. 207, OECD Publishing, Paris. 2013.

• On the Internet, Brazil is beating the US at its own game, article on Al-Jazzera American Edition, 2013. 

• Peering in Paraguay: Analysis and Recommendations 2012 (PDF), Packet Clearing House analysis reports, 2012. 

• Toward Efficiencies in Canadian Internet Traffic Exchange (PDF), commissioned by the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), Sep 2012.

• National & Regional Cyber-Defense: an Integrated Caribbean Strategy (PDF). Caribbean Telecommunications Union Ministerial, May 2012.

• National Internet Defense: Small States on the Skirmish Line, Communications of the ACM, 2011.  

• Survey of Characteristics of Internet Carrier Interconnection Agreements (PDF), original research by Packet Clearing House, May 2011.

• Workshop on Internet Topology and Terminology (PDF), organised at the IGF 2009 and IGF 2014 (PDF)

• Internet Exchange Points: benefits and requirements (PDF). 3rd Caribbean Internet Governance Forum, Curacao, August 2007

• A Straw-Man Pricing Model Addressing the Multicast deployment Problem, University of Minnesota, 2003. 

• Prescriptive Policy Guide for Developing Nations Wishing to Encourage the Formation of a Domestic Internet Industry, Packet Clearing House analysis reports, 2001. 

• Two Modest Proposals for Improving the Economic Efficiency of Colocation Facilities, Packet Clearing House analysis reports, 2000. 

If you are interested in our work in this area, email us at info@pch.net. We'd like to hear from you!