[NA-Discuss] FYI: FCC Commissioner Urges, Don't Regulate the Internet

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

All,

  As has been my and our members contention for years, it's
good and heartening to read a well reasoned and considered
bit on whom should be managing Internet resources.

  However I believe that Comcast got it's just reward.  Yet
the pulling of the plug on Usenet is not reasonable as cleaning it
up can and should be doable.  However the Usenet groups that
promote Child Porn should be shut down immediately!  Such
action does not predicate or require that ALL of Usenet have it's
proverbial plug pulled...

  Yet recent events and lack of precipitous action on the part
of ICANN and the IANA regarding DNS, has given many of
our members to be yet again reconsider that perhaps some
USG regulation on DNS and IP address management, is
needed.  Such management should come from professional
Technical folks, not social science bureaucrats and/or activists
of various bents.

See:

 http://www.brettglass.com/FCC/remarks.html Brett Glass writes
"In an op-ed in today's Washington Post, FCC Commissioner
Robert McDowell
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/27/AR2008072701172.html
makes a case against government regulation of the Internet, opining
that 'engineers, not politicians or bureaucrats, should solve
engineering problems.' With state governments pressuring ISPs to
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/17/2243210&tid=95
pull the plug on Usenet, and a proposal now in play for a
http://www.cato.org/tech/tk/080124-tk.html censored public
Internet, McDowell may have a very good point."
McDowell is one of the two FCC commissioners who did not vote
with the majority to
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/27/1257237&tid=230
punish Comcast for their BitTorrent throttling.

Regards,

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