Netflix, Comcast execs named to FCC net-neutrality panel

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Kind of like the fox guarding the chicken coop isn't it?

The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday released the roster of its net-neutrality oversight panel, which includes representatives from content creators, Internet service providers and software companies, among other stakeholders.

The new 21-member Open Internet Advisory Committee (OIAC) is tasked with evaluating the effects of the FCC's Open Internet rules, issued in 2010, and providing the commission recommendations for preserving an open Internet, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced in a public notice.

OIAC members include Netflix's chief product officer, Neil Hunt; Charles Kalmanek, vice president of research at AT&T ; Kevin McElearney, Comcast SVP for network engineering; Chip Sharp, director of technology policy and Internet governance at Cisco Systems ; and Alcatel-Lucent Chief Technology Officer Marcus Weldon.

http://www.fierceonlinevideo.com/story/netflix-comcast-execs-named-fcc-net-neutrality-panel/2012-05-30#ixzz1wNJOz5q2

[Romulox]

1. Similar to how James Dimon has been deeply involved in banking regs... nt

[jwirr]

2. We used to call this a conflict of interest. Apparently that no longer exists.

[lookingfortruth]

4. [phone]

[lookingfortruth]

3. Talk about leaving the Fuckin Fox in charge of the Hen house!

[Marrah_G]

5. Who the hell appoints these people?

[onenote]

6. Here is the complete list

Actually doesn't look that one-sided to me:


Chair: Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law and Computer Science and Co-Founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University

Vice Chair: David Clark, Senior Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Members of the Open Internet Advisory Committee
Harvey Anderson, Vice President of Business Affairs & General Counsel, Mozilla
Brad Burnham, Founding Partner, Union Square Ventures
Alissa Cooper, Chief Computer Scientist, Center for Democracy & Technology
Leslie Daigle, Chief Internet Technology Officer, Internet Society
Jessica Gonzalez, Executive Board, Media and Democracy Coalition; Vice President for Policy & Legal Affairs, National Hispanic Media Coalition (representing NHMC)
Shane Greenstein, Professor and Kellogg Chair of Information Technology, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Russell Housley, Chair, Internet Engineering Task Force; Founder of Vigil Security, LLC (representing Vigil Security, LLC)
Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer, Netflix
Charles Kalmanek, Vice President of Research, AT&T
Matthew Larsen, CEO, Vistabeam
Kevin McElearney, Senior Vice President for Network Engineering, Comcast
Marc Morial, President & CEO, National Urban League
Elaine Paul, Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning, The Walt Disney Company
Jennifer Rexford, Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University
Dennis Roberson, Vice Provost & Research Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (representing T-Mobile)
Chip Sharp, Director, Technology Policy and Internet Governance, Cisco Systems
Charles Slocum, Assistant Executive Director, Writers Guild of America, West
Marcus Weldon, Chief Technology Officer, Alcatel-Lucent
Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder & Head of User Experience, CloudFlare

[DJ13]

7. More of the same

[TheWraith]

8. You know that Netflix is pro-net-neutrality, right?

As are a lot of the other people appointed to this panel.

[Zalatix]

9. There's only one thing to say to this...

[Stinky The Clown]

10. Actually, Netflix and Comcast are as likely to be on opposite sides as not.

Comcast has internet backbone interests. They provide pipe to their subscribers. Netflix uses gobs and gobs of that pipe (that they don't pay for) to deliver their product. You can bet that Comcast would like to get big fees for handling that massive data transfer.

it is in Netflix' best interest to keep the internet open and free of charge. It is in Comcast's best interest to close it and charge for it.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. Comcast may be guilty of violating Net Neutrality.

Basically they don't count video streaming of their own content towards usage caps.

It was Comcast I had in mind not Netflix when I posted the article. Should have made that clearer.