FCC & Internet phones

Mon Mar 11 02:33:45 PST 1996

Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 10-Mar-96 Re: FCC & Internet phones
by t byfield at panix.com 
>         I think ACTA will make a valiant effort to ban this stuff, and the
> FCC might listen--if only to safeguard its purview--but the only
> "effective" way to enforce such a ban would be to impose yet another
> policing duty on ISPs. Bandwidth aside, they've got better things to worry
> about.

Unfortunately, that's not true. From:
   http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/top/

-Declan

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Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 15:37:07 -0600
From: "Neal J. Friedman" <njf at commlaw.com>
Subject: FCC Sets Comment Date for Internet Phone Call Rulemaking     

The FCC has acted with astonishing speed in setting a date for comments on
the ACTA petition to regulate telephone calls via the Internet.  It is not
uncommon for rule making petitions to sit for weeks, months, even years
without action.  ACTA filed its petition on March 6th and two days later the
FCC issued a Public Notice seeking comment.  The deadline for comments is
April 8, 1996 with reply comments due 15 days later.

After reviewing the comments, the FCC will either terminate the proceeding
without further action or issue a Notice of Proposed Rule Making seeking
further comments on a proposed rule.