Editor's note.

• Author: Salons, Deborah J.

Welcome to the first issue of Volume 55 of the Federal Communications Law Journal. The staff is very excited about the variety and quality of articles and notes in this issue.

In our first Article, Warren G. Lavey discusses making and keeping regulatory promises, arguing that it is possible and beneficial for regulators to commit to a multiyear sequence of regulatory changes. In the second Article, Hernan Galperin and Francois Bar review the regulation of interactive television in the United States and in the European Union, presenting a general framework of regulatory thinking about open network access, while considering the convergence of communication industry sectors and conflicting policy goals. In our third Article, Sue Ann Mota examines the Child Pornography Prevention Act and the Child Online Protection Act, in conjunction with two U.S. Supreme Court cases--Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition and Ashcroft v. ACLU. She concludes with predictions of the statutes and recommendations for rulemakers.

In the first of our student-written Notes, Kathryn Gordon tackles the question: Are proposed Federal Communications Commission rules that treat local exchange carrier access to multiple tenant environments a taking? Nicholas Levi reviews the history of capital punishment in America, and concludes that arguments for broadcasting public executions have failed because they have been classified as "access" cases. The issue closes with Jonathan Zittrain's review of Ruling the Root by Milton L. Mueller.

The editorial board would like to thank all of the Authors for their contributions. We are committed to providing our readers with broad coverage of timely and important...