Internet Gone Mobile

Since the dawn of the network age, the Internet has been wired-up from end to end, and the mobile network has been free to move about in its own innovation space. What has to change in the engineering and economics of the Internet for it to fully support mobile devices, applications, and users, and what has to happen in the mobile network for it to become free, open, and conforming to Internet standards and practices? Some of the answers to these questions are technical ones currently being hammered out by the IETF and 3GPP. The others are policy answers, with solutions emerging from the European Commission and from national regulatory authorities in the United States and elsewhere. This talk hits separates the points of consensus from ongoing areas of friction, highlighting critical roadblocks standing in the way of a pervasive, highly functional and fully open Mobile Internet.