[1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Re: FCC’s Office Of Engineer ing & Techn ology Es tablishes Technical Advisory Process For Open Inter net Proceed ing And Announces Workshop

[Marianne Granoff]

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>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:          NEWS MEDIA CONTACT:
>December 2, 2009                Walter Johnston: (202) 418-0807
>                Email: walter.johnston at fcc.gov
>                Jon Peha: (202)-418-2406
>                Email: jon.peha at fcc.gov
>
>Federal Communications Commission’s Office Of Engineering & Technology
>Establishes Technical Advisory Process For Open Internet Proceeding And
>Announces Workshop
>
>Washington, D.C. ­ The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today
>announced that the Chief of the FCC’s Office of Engineering & Technology
>(OET) has established a Technical Advisory Process to ensure that decisions
>in the Commission’s proceeding on the open Internet reflect a thorough
>understanding of current technology and future technology trends.  The
>process will provide an inclusive, open, and transparent forum for obtaining
>the best technical data and insights from a broad range of stakeholders,
>including through a public workshop on December 8, 2009 in the Commission
>meeting room.
>
>The Technical Advisory Process was called for in the FCC’s October 22, 2009
>Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, “In the Matter of Preserving the Open
>Internet, Broadband Industry Practices” (FCC 09-93), GN Docket No. 09-191,
>WN Docket 07-52, which proposed draft rules to preserve the open Internet.
>  OET has now established a technical working group comprised of engineers
>and technologists from across the FCC’s bureaus and offices to receive
>information from stakeholders on the technical issues in the open Internet
>proceeding.  The working group will hold ex parte meetings with engineers
>and other interested parties to understand the range of views in the
>technical community on the issues presented by the open Internet rulemaking,
>identify any areas of common ground between stakeholders, and clarify the
>scope of key differences.  In addition, FCC engineers from the working group
>will be integrated into other teams within the Commission considering the
>  various issues raised in the open Internet proceeding.
>
>The Technical Advisory Process will include a workshop on December 8, 2009
>starting at 10 a.m. in the Commission meeting room, which will be open to
>the public and live streamed via the Internet.  The workshop will consist of
>tutorial presentations by experts on network management practices for
>various Internet access service delivery platforms, followed by questions
>from the Commission’s technical working group and members of the public.
>
>An agenda for the workshop will be made available soon.  The workshop will
>be open to the public; however, admittance will be limited to the seating
>available.  Audio/video coverage of the workshop will be broadcast live with
>open captioning over the Internet from the website for this proceeding at
>http://www.openinternet.gov.
>
>Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities are available upon
>request.  Please include a description of the accommodation you will need.
>  Individuals making such requests must include their contact information
>should FCC staff need to contact them for more information.  Requests should
>be made as early as possible.  Please send an e-mail to fcc504 at fcc.gov or
>call the Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau: 202-418-0530 (voice),
>202-418-0432 (TTY).
>
>For additional information about the workshop, please contact Walter
>Johnson at (202) 418-0807 or by email at walter.johnston at fcc.gov, or Jon
>Peha at (202) 418-2406 or by email at jon.peha at fcc.gov.
>
>Parties wishing to meet with the technical working group should contact
>Sandra Mata at (202) 418-2470 or by e-mail at sandra.mata at fcc.gov .