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Committee on Communications Policy (CCP)
 
 

Action Issues and Activities

  • New Technologies for Fostering Broadband Access
  • Network Traffic Management
  • Security/Privacy/Transparency
  • Voce over Internet Protocol Services
  • FCC and and Spectrum Policy Reform

Participation

CCP invites IEEE U.S. members who have an interest in public policy coupled with expertise in the field of computers, communications, and Internet technology and who are willing to be active contributors to the committee's activities to join the committee as a Corresponding Member (CM). As CM, you will be invited to recommend committee activities, comment on draft position statements and testimonies, and otherwise participate in the business of the committee.

To become a CM, please provide a brief description of your interest and expertise in this area and submit to:

Deborah Rudolph
(Office) 202-530-8332
(Email)
d.rudolph@ieee.org

Committee Organization

IEEE-USA members are invited to serve on the committee to assist with the activities and mission of CCP.

Chair:

Eric Burger, Chair

Vice Chair:

TBA

Staff:

Deborah Rudolph

Mission Statement

The Committee on Communications Policy (CCP) promotes formulation of sound legislation, regulation and policies relating to communications technologies. Committee members have focused on such issues as spectrum efficiency, high-performance computing, RFID, digital high-resolution systems, personal communications systems, and privacy.

Meeting Schedule

Meetings are generally held in IEEE-USA's Washington DC office from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. (EST). Visitors are welcome and active participation is encouraged.

Please contact Deborah Rudolph for future meeting dates and details.

Conferences

The IEEE RFID 2009 was held on April 27-28, 2009, in Orlando, Florida. This was the third in a series of annual conferences dedicated to address the technical and policy challenges in the areas of radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies, their supporting large-scale distributed information systems, and their applications.

Award Presentations and a Photo Gallery from the recent conference are now available. Also, see preliminary information on IEEE RFID 2010.. >> more

Past RFID Conferences:

Position Statements

VOIP Voice Over Internet Protocol [New!] 2010
Broadband Nationwide High Speed Broadband Data Services [New!] 2009
RFID Developing National Policies on the Deployment of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology  [New!] 2009
Encryption Encryption Policy 2008

White Papers

Policy Communications

Reports

IEEE International Conference on RFID 2007 Proceedings
Abstracts are available to all. Full articles are available to those who pay for it ($13 per article) or are members of Xplore subscribing institutions.

"This Decade's (R)evolutionary Telecommunications Paradigm? — workshop report prepared by Alan McAdams, Cornell University (March 2003)

Resource Links

Selected Government Sites

Other Sites/Links

  Last update: 18 February 2010

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HOT TOPICS

FCC Report Due
17 March 2010

Remarks of Chairman Julius Genachowski
at the FCC broadband meeting in December.

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IEEE-USA filed comments to the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Notice of Inquiry soliciting input on the FCC's "A National Broadband Plan for our Future" proposal.

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National Broadband Strategy

CCP is a member of the U.S. Broadband Coalition that developed a report on a "National Broadband Strategy," promoting the development of a National Broadband Plan in the United States.

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The Broadband Data Improvement Act
(S. 1492)

The Broadband Data Improvement Act passed the Senate and the House of Representatives by a unanimous consent in September 2008. On October 10, the bill became Public Law 110-385.

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