FCC Hearing on Broadband Network Management Practices

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced further details on a public En Banc hearing to be hosted by Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society (CIS) at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California on Thursday, April 17, 2008.

AGENDA

12:00 p.m. Welcome/Opening Remarks

12:45 p.m. Panel Discussion 1 – Network Management and Consumer Expectations

Introduction: Lawrence Lessig, C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

  • Rick Carnes, President, Songwriters Guild of America
  • Michele Combs, Christian Coalition of America
  • George Ou, Independent Consultant and Former Network Engineer
  • Jon Peha, Associate Director of the Center for Wireless and Broadband Networking; Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Jean Prewitt, President and Chief Executive Officer, Independent Film & Television Alliance
  • James P. Steyer, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Common Sense Media
    Robb Topolski, Software Quality Engineer

2:15 p.m. Break

3:00 p.m. Panel Discussion 2 – Consumer Access to Emerging Internet Technologies and Applications

Introduction: Barbara van Schewick, Assistant Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

  • Jason Devitt, Chief Executive Officer, SkyDeck
  • Harold Feld, Senior Vice President, Media Access Project
  • George S. Ford, Chief Economist Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies
  • Brett Glass, Chief Executive Officer, Lariat.net
  • Blake Krikorian, Chief Executive Officer, Sling Media
  • Jon Peterson, Co-Director, Real-Time Applications and Infrastructure (RAI), Internet Engineering Task Force
  • Gregory L. Rosston, Deputy Director, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
  • Ben Scott, Policy Director, Free Press

4:30 p.m. Public Comment

6:30 p.m. Closing Remarks

7:00 p.m. Adjournment

The Commission will hear from expert panelists regarding broadband network management practices and Internet-related issues. The hearing scheduled at Stanford University is the second such hearing on broadband network management practices and Internet-related issues to be held by the FCC and follows a similar hearing held at Harvard Law School last month (for more information: http://www.fcc.gov/headlines.html - go to February 25, 2008 headline: ‘FCC En Banc Hearing on Broadband Network Management Practices, Cambridge, Massachusetts’). The hearing at Stanford University is open to the public, and seating will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Additional details on this hearing will be forthcoming.

The public may file comments or other documents with the Commission and should reference docket numbers 07-52 and 08-7 when filing by paper or submit your filing electronically by going to http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/upload_v2.cgi and enter proceeding numbers 07-52 and 08-7. Electronic filers need to complete cover forms separately for each docket because the system accepts only one docket number per filing. Filing instructions are provided at http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/ecfs/.

See http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-281298A1.doc


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