National Journal’s Tech Daily Dose is reporting that Douglas C. Sicker will be the new Chief Technologist for the FCC.

Michael Weinberg of Public Knowledge demonstrates for us the problem with ignorance based policy by claiming that games and VoIP “works just fine” on a dumb and neutral network. I don’t know how Mr. Weinberg defines “works just fine”, but 150 to 1000 millisecond latency is not “just fine” when half your words are cutting out in a phone call or when you’ve been fragged a whole second before you even see it. The fact that Mr. Weinberg perpetuates this shows how ignorant the hard line Net Neutrality proponents are.

I’ve spent much time debunking the notion that all applications should be treated equally by the network. I’ve also published data showing the harmful effects of BitTorrent which was supposedly “network friendly”, but I haven’t talked about the harmful effects of video streaming from popular services like Netflix, YouTube, and Hulu up until now.

Silicon Valley types are so infatuated with big broadband and they just can’t understand why more than 70% of Americans are happy with their existing broadband service. The usual knee jerk explanation for this is that there are no applications driving consumer demand because broadband is too slow to allow for higher bandwidth applications, but it completely ignores the reality that it’s applications that lag broadband.

Progress & Freedom Foundation comments on the announcement of the Federal Communications Commissions vote to move forward with a Notice of Inquiry to regulate the Internet under “Title II” classification. This move to reclassify under Title II would define Internet provision as a telecommunications service.

Chairman Genachowski gets the cold shoulder?

Net Neutrality, Investment & Jobs: Assessing the Potential Impacts of the FCC’s Proposed Net Neutrality Rules on the Broadband Ecosystem Charles M. Davidson, Bret T. Swanson* New York Law School Advance Communications Law & Policy Institute June 2010 Authors Davidson and Swanson review the fall out of FCC regulation on the broadband ecosystem.  They point [...]

Congress has told the FCC no on reclassification and the courts have told the FCC that they cannot exceed their congressional authority, but the current FCC seems determined to shatter the congressional tether based on a manufactured crisis.

Earlier this week I wrote that “Mobile networks aren’t for Video on Demand” which was read by many visitors. The fundamental problem with mobile VoD is that each video user can ask for more network capacity than all of the other phone and web users combined. But this isn’t the end of the road for video on mobile networks and the problems can be overcome with IP multicasting.

There is a report from David Hatch at CongressDaily that indicates that several industry groups have compromised and are pushing for some light touch legislation that may prevent Internet Service Providers from prioritizing content but will prevent the FCC from being able to pursue it’s “Third Way” option to reclassify the Internet as a “telecommunications service” under Title II.