Wireless Communications and Computing at a Crossroads: New Paradigms and Their Impact on Theories Governing the Public's Right to Spectrum Access

I. FROM EXCLUSIVE USE TO PUBLIC RIGHT ............................... 240 A. Dealing the Cards, and Valuing the Deal ............................ 242 B. Reshuffling the Deck............................................................ 243 II. THE REPEAL OF GROSCH’S LAW .............................................. 246 III. THE BARAN PRINCIPLES ............................................................ 254 A. The Kindergarten Protocol .................................................. 254 B. Does Baran’s Protocol Repeal Coase’s Theorem? ................ 258 C. Packet Switching Overview.................................................. 261 1. The Old Centralized Computing Model and Broadcasting ................................................................... 263 2. Distributed Computing, Packet Switching, and Mesh Networks ........................................................................ 264 IV. CAN TECHNOLOGICAL RULES BE ENCODED IN CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES? ................................................ 265 A. The Wireless Device Bill of Rights...................................... 265 B. The FCC in a Box................................................................ 268 C. The Bill of Rights and the Technological Advisory Council ................................................................................. 269 CONCLUSION....................................................................................... 272