[125232] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCC dealt major blow in net neutrality ruling favoring Comcast
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Sat Apr 10 16:30:06 2010
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <E89E66A4-E0CF-4EAC-99DC-18125DCC98E8@puck.nether.net>
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:29:50 -0400
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 9, 2010, at 7:04 PM, Jared Mauch wrote:
> I believe you are doing a disservice to the FCC by making these =
inflammatory statements.
And here I thought I was defending them for being different & better =
than the last group.
The point is, joe asked about the FCC that made a ruling. The staffers =
who work hard (and deserve lots of credit for working hard) do not make =
those rulings. The political appointees and their handlers in the =
administration make those rulings. Those appointees are very different =
than the last group. And I think this is a very good thing.
For instance, could you in your wildest dreams have imagined the last =
group sending their top people to NANOG, and those people standing =
around asking people to talk to them? That was AWESOME, and very =
different than the "last FCC".
And I don't think there is anything wrong with thinking of it that way.
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
> 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).
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> As with many things, there is a lot of (mis-)information out there.
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> (Gotta run kids are bleeding!).
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