Critics Say Chairman's Broadband Plan Won't Work as Advertised

摘要

A weakness in FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s proposed approach to broadbandnreclassification is that the commission would regulate only broadband transport in the last mile,nleaving out other layers of the Internet, critics said. The FCC wouldn't assert control over ISPsnand or over actions at the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) level, where Comcast'snthrottling of BitTorrent took place, they said. AT&T Senior Vice President Robert Quinnnquestioned in a log post whether Genachowski’s proposed "third way" for regulatingnbroadband would have prevented either the actions that the commission censured Comcastnfor in the BitTorrent case or Madison River’s blocking of VoIP ports, another high-profile FCCnInternet case. Quinn compared Genachowski's approach to the disastrous Pickett's Chargenat Gettysburg.