Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) now says his net neutrality bill is effectively dead after Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.) declined to support the legislation, the Washington Post reports.
The draft also would have prohibited the FCC from imposing regulations on broadband Internet access service or any component of the service under Title II of the Communications Act, except when a broadband Internet access provider prefers to do so.
The rules would have applied to all consumer broadband connections, wired and wireless.
The short draft basically codified the existing "Internet freedoms" rules the FCC has bee using, without apparently adding language that prohibits application of quality-of-service features to consumer broadband access.
The rules would prohibit service providers from blocking lawful content, applications, or services, or prohibit the use of non-harmful devices, subject to reasonable network management. Service providers do not object to those rules.
The draft language also would have allowed reasonable network management practices, specifically saying that such practices "shall not be construed to be unjustly or unreasonably discriminatory."
The draft language did not elaborate on whether enhanced services or other quality of service features are permissible. The language focused on "minimum" standards of behavior, but did not specifically address whether consumers have the right to buy services that offer expedited or quality-assured delivery.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Waxman Net Neutrality Bill Goes Nowhere
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Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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