Editor's note.

• Jurisdiction: United States
• Date: 01 March 2011
• 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...