[Infowarrior] - FCC to hold open hearing on traffic shaping

[Richard Forno]

FCC to hold open hearing on traffic shaping

The FCC will on Monday hold a public hearing to discuss the ramifications of
traffic shaping, it has announced. The focus will specifically be on the
concept of net neutrality, an FCC policy which traffic shaping is said to
violate, by dictating which services and/or websites an ISP customer can
use. Panels at the hearing will be staffed by academics, engineers,
lobbyists and politicians, in contrast to a workshop held last year which
was mostly helmed by industry representatives and supporters. The hearing is
scheduled for 10AM to 4PM at the Harvard Law School in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.

The issue of net neutrality has come to the fore mainly as a result of
Comcast, which is under investigation by the FCC for sabotaging peer-to-peer
traffic such as BitTorrent downloads. The company has also been threatened
with potential federal legislation, as well as two separate lawsuits,
alleging unfair practices and false advertising. [via Broadband Reports]


http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/02/21/fcc.neutrality.hearing/