Washington reflections
The AALS meeting is big and friendly and goes on for days. This was my first time coming to the meeting, and I enjoyed seeing so many friends and acquaintances. Washington itself seemed so familiar and accessible — I think it's just because I haven't lived here for a while, but I felt very nostalgic.
In the midst of all this semester-break chatting, I was on a panel this afternoon that was also relatively friendly. On my left was Josh Lamel from Sen. Wyden's office; on my right were Jim Speta, Mark Lemley, Phil Weiser, Howard Shelanski, and Christopher Yoo. We succeeded in not giving presentations and had a lively conversation about (predictably) network neutrality and prognostications about the coming year.
Tomorrow: back to work and whitespaces — a hard look at an ongoing FCC spectrum proceeding.