Mozilla Offers FCC a Net Neutrality Plan With a Twist

Posted by samzenpus on Monday May 5, 2014 @05:12AM from the how-about-this? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Mozilla Foundation is filing a petition asking the FCC to declare that ISPs are common carriers, with a twist. 'The FCC doesn't have to reclassify the Internet access ISPs offer consumers as a telecommunications service subject to common carrier regulations under Title II of the Communications Act, Mozilla says. Instead, the FCC should target the service ISPs offer to edge providers like Netflix and Dropbox, who need to send their bits over ISP networks to reach their customers. Classifying the ISP/edge provider relationship as a common carrier service will be a little cleaner since the FCC wouldn't have to undo several decade-old orders that classified broadband as an "information" service rather than telecommunications, Mozilla argues.'" Here's the Mozilla blog post and the 13-page petition.

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Re:There's no financial incentive to play fair by alen · 2014-05-05 05:48 · Score: 0, Troll

how did the bully them?
every one except for netflix paid for CDN's or for transit providers other than cogent. MLB and NBA use Level 3 to stream games and i've never heard complaints about those.
there are lots of streaming services who compete with pay TV and they run their business to provide good service. netflix is wants free internet access to get a competitive edge