The Dawn of the Internet Regulation: An Overview of Pending Legislation
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
4:30 to 6 p.m.
Avrum Gudelsky Memorial Auditorium

David Ward, J.D., is a professor of practice at Capitol College and senior legal advisor in the Policy Division, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, Federal Communications Commission. He develops and implements network interconnection policies and requirements so that all types of telecommunications companies can pass traffic between each other. His subject areas include national security and emergency preparedness of the public switched telephone network and the Internet, interconnection requirements of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the North American Numbering Plan, Telephone Service Priority regulations, the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, network infrastructure survivability, customer premises equipment standards and waivers, telephone relay services for the handicapped, satellite earth station licensing criteria and advanced services (e.g., ADSL, TCP/IP, soft switching).

Professor Ward is a retired Lieutenant Colonel, USMCR, communications-electronics and command and control systems. He is a combat veteran of operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, and participated in several NATO deployments overseas.

He was an Assistant Attorney General for New York State for five years and prosecuted antitrust cases related mostly to the telecommunications markets. He began his career with the New York Telephone Company, AT&T and later NYNEX, starting out in a management development program as an installer-repairman, and later serving in the operating and complex network planning departments for 12 years.