Who is attending these "secret" FCC net neutrality meetings?

Anger and confusion remains high over these private "back door" meetings that the Federal Communications Commission has been holding with various "stakeholders" regarding its proposed open Internet rules. Reform groups are still up in arms over the June 22 gatherings, which appear to have focused on a legislative solution to the problem.

Congress, it should be noted, is exploring rewriting the Communications Act in response to the current FCC logjam on the issue. The Washington Post reports that these conferences haven't made much progress; nonetheless, the reform group Free Press has published an ad in that newspaper protesting the sessions.

FCC Chief of Staff Edward Lazarus, who we are told summoned various key players to these conferences, has published a list of the attendants. They included Verizon Vice President Thomas Tauke, AT&T Vice President James Cicconi, President of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association Kyle McSlarrow, Google's Alan Davidson, and Skype's Christopher Libertelli. All are key corporate lobbyists. These gents met with Lazarus and two other FCC policy people: Paul de Sa and Zachary Katz. The disclosure of these participants comes via a "Notice of Stakeholder Meetings" letter sent to the agency by Markham Erickson, head of the pro-net neutrality Open Internet Coalition (we're presuming he also attended). "We discussed details relating to prospective legislation relating to open Internet principles," Erickson's letter concludes.