Net Neutrality Comments Overtaxed FCC's System

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 26, 2014 @07:30AM from the maybe-it's-time-for-an-upgrade dept.

Presto Vivace writes with news that the FCC has had trouble dealing with the sheer volume of comments submitted about net neutrality. There were millions of them, and they caused problems with the agency's 18-year-old Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS). When the FCC attempted to dump the comments into XML format to make download and analysis easier, problems with Apache Solr meant roughly 680,000 didn't make the transfer. The agency promised to release a new set of fixed XML files in January that include all of the dropped comments. Despite many reports that the comments were "lost," they're all available using the ECFS.

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Need a slow lane by Leuf · 2014-12-26 07:33 · Score: 5, Funny

If only the FCC website could have been put in a slow lane they wouldn't have had this problem.
They only store them for us to read by fustakrakich · 2014-12-26 07:51 · Score: 5, Insightful

The FCC already has its orders. The 'comments' thing is just a pacification measure.

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Re:I think the bigger issue by charronia · 2014-12-26 10:03 · Score: 5, Interesting

The FCC might be able to reduce the number of comments they have to read by running them through a letter plagiarism filter.