[178426] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: One FCC neutrality elephant: disabilities compliance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mel Beckman)
Fri Feb 27 15:21:22 2015
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From: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
To: Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 20:12:21 +0000
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Lamar,
Two pages? Read the news, man. It's been widely reported that the actual O=
rder runs to over 300 pages!
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/02/26/389259382
You say you haven't read the actual R&O. Nobody in the public sector, or ev=
en in Congress AFAIK, has read it. The Order's 300-plus pages were never pu=
blicly released or openly debated.This is another "you must pass it to see =
what's in it" debacle, without the luxury of having any semblance of democr=
atic process or transparency.
I wrote the FCC to ask for a copy of the Order, and here is the response I =
received:
On Feb 27, 2015, at 11:08 AM, Will Wiquist <Will.Wiquist@fcc.gov<mailto:Wil=
l.Wiquist@fcc.gov>>
wrote:
Good afternoon,
Thank you for writing. The Order will be released to the public on the FCC=
website as soon as possible, following final edits, which will likely take=
a few weeks. The order is then sent to the Federal Register. This is the =
typical process for a final rule and order passed by the Commission. If yo=
u are reporting on this, you can attribute that statement to an FCC spokesp=
erson.
Very best regards,
Will
Despite the FCC's "best regards", this is the Obama administration pulling =
a fast one. They'll release the order months from now after they wait for t=
he public to forget about it.
"If you like your Internet, you can keep your Internet."
On Feb 27, 2015, at 10:52 AM, Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu<mailto:lowen@pari.=
edu>>
wrote:
On 02/27/2015 01:06 PM, Mel Beckman wrote:
Section 255 of Title II applies to Internet providers now, as does section =
225 of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
These regulations are found in 47CFR=A76, not 47CFR=A78, which is the subje=
ct of docket 14-28.
Not having read the actual R&O in docket 14-28, so basing the following sta=
tements on the NPRM instead. Since the NPRM had 47CFR=A78 limited to 47CFR=
=A78.11, and the actual amendment going to 47CFR=A78.17, the adopted rules =
are different than originally proposed. You can read the proposed regulati=
ons yourself in FCC 14-61 ( http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=3D752=
1129942 ) pages 66-67. Yes, two pages. The actual regulations are a bit, =
but not much, longer.
47CFR=A76 was already there before docket 14-28 came about.
