Wednesday, December 2, 2009

FCC releases official Net Neutrality Notice

I apologize for the brief post.  It certainly merits far more discussion and time, but with Finals approaching this is all you get!

The FCC has finally published the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for Net Neutrality.

Here an excerpt from the Summary:

In this NPRM, the Commission proposes draft language to codify the four principles the Commission articulated in the Internet Policy Statement; a fifth principle that would require a broadband Internet access service provider to treat lawful content, applications, and services in a nondiscriminatory manner; and a sixth principle that would require a broadband Internet access service provider to disclose such information concerning network management and other practices as is reasonably required for users and content, application, and service providers to enjoy the protections specified in this rulemaking.

What do you think?  The official Notice is 26 pages; and the public’s opportunity to submit comments lasts until January 14th, with a second opportunity scheduled to last until March 5th.

For some more information, check out NextGov’s Tech Insider, it has some interesting links and columns on Federal Technology.

2 comments:

  1. Sweet. Did I ever show you guys this?

    http://fereshteh.net/student/netneutrality_nate/index.html

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  2. Did you do this senior year? How did we not know about this?

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