| Comment Number: | 527031-00065 |
| Received: | 3/13/2007 9:34:03 AM |
| Organization: | The COOK Report on Internet Protocol |
| Commenter: | Gordon Cook |
| State: | NJ |
| Agency: | Federal Trade Commission |
| Rule: | Broadband Connectivity Competition Policy |
| No Attachments |
Comments:
Network Neutrality is a two edged sword and is almost impossible to legislate without causing grievous harm to the protocol process that enables new applications to run on the Internet. You need to read the business communications review articles by John Waclawsky to undertsand why. The problem is that the local phone companies have been allowed to reintegrate and buy a new monopoly at the FCC. Broadband should never have been deregulated and treated as an information service. Force broadband delivery back where it was in 2002 and you will reinstate the principals of common carriage. Common carriage is needed as the only way to achieve network neutrality. Read Susan Crawffords papers Internet Think and The Internet and the Project of Communications Law. The papers are here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=342675