[opendtv] Dingell To Genachowski: Abandon Title II Plan
- From: "John Shutt" <shuttj@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "OpenDTV" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:35:14 -0400
This one is for Bert.
John
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/455351-Dingell_To_Genachowski_Abandon_Title_II_Plan.php
Dingell To Genachowski: Abandon Title II Plan
Former House Energy & Commerce Committee chairman says plan is bad policy
John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 7/28/2010 10:55:42 PM
Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) has counseled FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski to
"abandon" his effort to reclassify broadband under some Title II regs and
told him to wait for Congress to weigh in, saying the chairman's defense of
that plan was insufficient.
That came in a letter to Genachowski Wednesday in response to the FCC
Chairman's letter Monday, which was itself a response to Dingell's letter of
last week about the fact that he had gotten no response to a letter he had
sent two months ago.
The key to that maze of correspondence was that Dingell said the chairman's
response, or more to the point what he called the "paucity of responses" in
Genachowski's letter Monday
((http://www.house.gov/dingell/pdf/20100726_FCC_Response.pdf)) lacked
sufficient detail and confirmed Dingell's "fear" that the chairman's
so-called "third way" proposal was "bad policy" that would lead to
"protracted litigation."
He said of the chairman's defense that it was based on "unsound reasoning
and an incomplete record."
Dingell has made clear before that he has major problems with the proposal.
In fact, he pointed out that he was "reiterating" his call for the FCC to
stand down and let Congress step in.
The chairman is attempting to clarify the FCC's authority over broadband
access services in order to make sure it can implement the national
broadband plan and expand and codify its Internet openness guidelines. That
comes in the wake of the court decision throwing out the FCC's
Comcast/BitTorrent decision saying the FCC had failed to identify its
statutory authority to sanction Comcast for blocking peer-to-peer uploads.
But the chairman has also brought together both sides of the debate for
talks at the FCC about a possible legislative solution.
The FCC is currently collecting comment on the proposal, as well as the
options of doing nothing and applying the full force of Title II common
carrier regs to broadband transmissions.
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