Editor's note.

• Author: O'Connor, Ann E.

Welcome to the second Issue of the sixty-third Volume of the Federal Communications Law Journal, the nation's premier communications law journal and the official journal of the Federal Communications Bar Association. The Journal staff is excited to present the Symposium Articles and the Notes in this Issue.

The Issue begins with a series of Articles presenting analysis of the intersection between engineering principles in the Internet and broadband policy. The Articles included here are the result of a Symposium that took place at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition on May 6-7, 2010. The conference, "Rough Consensus and Running Code: Integrating Engineering Principles into the Internet Policy Debates," brought together a number of engineering, policy, regulatory, academic, and Internet experts to discuss the architecture of the Internet and the interaction between that technical structure and broadband policy.

Christopher Yoo, professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, provides an introduction to the following pieces, as well as an overview of the presentations made at the conference last May. He emphasizes the discussions' focus on the technical considerations of the Internet and the important role of such considerations on the formation of broadband policy.

The first Article in the Symposium series, which represents a sampling of the presentations from the conference, is by Marjory Blumenthal, associate provost and academic at Georgetown University, and David Clark, senior research scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. They present an expansion on the discussion of the end-to-end argument, focusing on the role of trust in decision making with respect to applications that use the Internet. Through this interpretation of the end-to-end argument, they emphasize the importance of the end user's control over trust decisions.

Next, Andrea Matwyshyn, assistant professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, presents a discussion of the ways users interact with technology. She frames her argument in developmental psychology and discusses the implications of these interactions on data privacy law. Professor Matwyshyn calls for user resilience on the Internet as a basis for a more secure information technology marketplace.

Dirk Grunwald, the Wilfred and Caroline Slade Endowed Professor in the...