[125199] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCC dealt major blow in net neutrality ruling favoring Comcast
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Fri Apr 9 19:07:04 2010
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <201B1FB2-3784-4BC2-8C57-10797F6BE989@ianai.net>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 19:04:02 -0400
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 9, 2010, at 6:51 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> On Apr 9, 2010, at 5:22 PM, joe mcguckin wrote:
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>> Let me see if I understand this correctly.
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>> People are defending the FCC?
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>> The same FCC that ruled that any data service over 200Kbits was =
broadband, not "Information Service" and thus came under the purview of=20=
>> the FBI and CALEA - directly contravening the language and intent of =
the CALEA act?
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> Very specifically NOT the same FCC. The FCC may retain the name, but =
the management, political bent, philosophies, and attitude are very =
different from the one that made that ruling.
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> That said, it is entirely possible this FCC would make the same =
ruling. Doesn't change what I said above.
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>> Sometimes the enemy of your enemy is just your enemy.
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> Sometimes. And sometimes he is neither, so it might be advantageous =
to work with him on the occasional project where your interest and his =
correlate well.
I believe you are doing a disservice to the FCC by making these =
inflammatory statements. There are plenty of GOOD people at the FCC, =
I'm guessing you may not have spent much time talking to them. (I met =
with the FCC about CALEA due to concerns about there being no mature 10G =
intercept platforms. There are vendors that are shipping devices that =
are not CALEA compliant, but may be compliant under other lawful =
intercept methods/statutes).
You have to understand that there are political appointees (that must be =
confirmed) and the regular staffers that operate in this space. The =
federal register and comment process is abundant, allowing people to =
file comments on nearly anything the government is discussing.
If you've not engaged in getting the daily notices from the Federal =
Register, and did not file form 445, you may want to take a look at it. =
Phone the FCC. Phone the DoJ and ask for the "CALEA Implementation =
Unit", the folks there are behind the http://askcalea.net website.
As with many things, there is a lot of (mis-)information out there.
(Gotta run kids are bleeding!).
