FCC dealt major blow in net neutrality ruling favoring, Comcast

Mon Apr 12 21:06:36 UTC 2010

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Richard Bennett <richard at bennett.com>wrote:

> One of the things I like about e-mail lists is learning things about myself
> that I never knew before, especially regarding my occupation. For the last 9
> months or so I've been working part-time with a Washington think tank in an
> analyst capacity, not as a lobbyist, and not on the Comcast payroll. My
> views about Internet regulation precede this job and haven't been altered by
> it. For purposes of the present discussion, I'd rather be known as the guy
> who wrote the first IEEE 802 standard for Ethernet over twisted pair, or
> designed the Wi-Fi MAC protocol, or the DRP for UWB, or something like that.

You might want to ring up the IEEE and get them to fix their egregious
omission of your name as the designer of the Wi-Fi MAC protocol.

http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802.11-2007.pdf

*Participants*

At the time the draft of this revision was sent to sponsor ballot, the IEEE
802.11 Working Group had the following officers:

*Stuart J. Kerry*, *Chair **Al Petrick*, *Vice-Chair and Treasurer **Harry
R. Worstell*, *Vice-Chair **Tim Godfrey*, *Secretary **Nanci Vogtli*,
*Publicity
Standing Committee **Teik-Kheong Tan*, *Chair, Wireless Next Generation
Standing Committee **Terry L. Cole *and *Simon Barber*, *Technical Editors*

*Richard H. Paine*, *Chair, Task Group k **Bruce P. Kraemer*, *Chair, Task
Group n **Sheung Li*, *Vice-Chair, Task Group n **Lee Armstrong*, *Chair,
Task Group p **Clint Chaplin*, *Chair, Task Group r **Donald E. Eastlake III
*, *Chair, Task Group s **Charles R. Wright*, *Chair, Task Group t **Stephen
McCann*, *Chair, Task Group u **Pat R. Calhoun*, *Chair, Task Group v **Jesse
Walker*, *Chair, Task Group w **Peter Ecclesine*, *Chair, Contention-Based
Protocol Study Group*

When the IEEE 802.11 Working Group approved this revision, Task Group m had
the following membership:

Bernard D. Aboba Osama S. Aboul-Magd Santosh P. Abraham Tomoko Adachi
Jonathan R. Agre Jon Adams Carlos H. Aldana Thomas Alexander Areg Alimian
Keith Amann Veera Anantha Merwyn B. Andrade Carl F. Andren Scott Andrews
David C. Andrus Hidenori Aoki Tsuguhide Aoki Michimasa Aramaki Takashi
Aramaki Sirikiat Lek Ariyavisitakul Lee R. Armstrong Larry Arnett Yusuke
Asai Arthur W. Astrin Malik Audeh Geert A. Awater David Bagby Michael Bahr
Dennis J. Baker

*Robert O’Hara*, *Chair **Terry L. Cole*, *Editor*

Ramanathan Balachander Simon Barber Richard N. Barnwell John R. Barr

Kevin M. Barry Charles R. Bartel Burak H. Baysal John L. Benko Mathilde
Benveniste Don Berry

Nehru Bhandaru Yogesh B. Bhatt Bjorn A. Bjerke Simon Black Scott Blue

Jan Boer Herve Bonneville William M. Brasier Alistair G. Buttar Pat R.
Calhoun Nancy Cam-Winget Necati Canpolat Bill Carney Pat Carson Broady B.
Cash RongFeng Chang Clint F. Chaplin Amalavoyal Chari James Chen

Jeng-Hong Chen Shiuh Chen Ye Chen Yi-Ming Chen Alexander L. Cheng Hong Cheng

Greg L. Chesson Aik Chindapol Sunghyun Choi Won-Joon Choi Liwen Chu
Dong-Ming Chuang Ken Clements

John T. Coffey W. Steven Conner Charles I. Cook Kenneth Cook Steven Crowley
Marc de Courville Rolf J. De Vegt Sabine Demel Yoshiharu Doi Brett L.
Douglas Baris B. Dundar Chris Durand Roger P. Durand Sebastien Dure Yaron
Dycian Donald E. Eastlake Peter Ecclesine

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Richard Eckard Jonathan P. Edney Bruce Edwards John Egan Stephen P. Emeott
Marc Emmelmann Darwin Engwer Joseph Epstein Patrik Eriksson Mustafa Eroz
Andrew X. Estrada Christoph Euscher Stefano M. Faccin John C. Fakatselis
Lars P. Falk

Steve W. Fantaske Michael Faulkner Paul H. Feinberg Alex Feldman Matthew J.
Fischer Wayne K. Fisher Michael D. Foegelle Brian Ford

Guido Frederiks Benoit Fremont Takashi Fukagawa Hiroshi Furukawa James
Gardner Monisha Ghosh James P. K. Gilb Jeffrey M. Gilbert Tim Godfrey
Sandesh Goel Wataru Gohda Sudheer Grandhi Gordon P. Gray Paul K. Gray Larry
Green Daqing Gu Srikanth Gumamdi David Gurevich Fred Haisch Robert J. Hall

Neil N. Hamady Seishi Hanaoka Christopher J. Hansen James J. Harford Daniel
N. Harkins Brian D. Hart

Chris Hartman Thomas Haslestad Amer A. Hassan Vann (William) Hasty James P.
Hauser Yutaka Hayakawa Shigenori Hayase Kevin V. Hayes Haixiang He

David J. Hedberg Robert F. Heile Gregory Scott Henderson Eleanor Hepworth

Frans M. Hermodsson

Karl F. Heubaum Odagiri Hideaki Guido R. Hiertz Garth D. Hillman Christopher
S. Hinsz Michael M. Hoghooghi Allen Hollister Hooman Honary William D. Horne
Henry Horng Yungping A. Hsu David Hunter Muhammad Z. Ikram Daichi Imamura
Yasuhiko Inoue Kazuhito Ishida Takashi Ishidoshiro Takumi Ito

Lakshmi Iyer Eric A. Jacobsen Marc Jalfon KyungHun Jang Yuh-Ren Jauh Ho-In
J. Jeon Taehyun Jeon Jorjeta G. Jetcheva Lusheng Ji Yung-Yih Jian Jari E.
Jokela VK Jones Bobby Jose Avinash Joshi Tyan-Shu Jou Carl W. Kain Naveen K.
Kakani Srinivas Kandala Shantanu Kangude Jeyhan Karaoguz Kevin J. Karcz
Pankaj R. Karnik Assaf Y. Kasher Masato Kato Douglas Kavner Patrick Kelly
Stuart J. Kerry John W. Ketchum Ryoji Kido Tomohiro Kikuma JinKyeong
(Joseph) Kim Joonsuk Kim Yongsuk Kim Youngsoo Kim Ziv Kimhi Shigeo Kishimoto
Guenter Kleindl Jarkko Kneckt Kiyotaka Kobayashi Mark M. Kobayashi Keiichiro
Koga Andrei Kojukhov Thomas Kolze George Kondylis Rahul Kopikar

John M. Kowalski Bruce P. Kraemer Jan P. Kruys Thomas Kuehnel Rajneesh Kumar
Takushi Kunihiro Ted Kuo

Thomas M. Kurihara Denis Kuwahara Bo Kvarnstrom Joe Kwak

Edwin Kwon Paul Lambert David S. Landeta Jeremy A. Landt Joseph P. Lauer
David J. Leach Dongjun Lee Insun Lee Myung J. Lee Sung-Won Lee Tae-Jin Lee
Martin Lefkowitz Uriel Lemberger Joseph Levy Scott Leyonhjelm Jia-Ru Li

Pen Li Sheung Li Yuan Li Haixiang Liang Jie Liang

Wei Lih Lim Huashih A. Lin Albert Liu Changwen Liu Der-Zheng Liu Ed W. Liu
Hang Liu

I-Ru Liu Jason Liu Xiaoyu Liu Yong Liu Peter Loc Peter M. Lojko Hui-Ling Lou
Phil MacKenzie Doug K. Makishima Majid M. Malek Jouni K. Malinen Mahalingam
Mani Kevin Mankin William Marshall Art Martin Tomoyuki Matsumoto Yoichi
Matsumoto Ryoko Matsuo Sudheer Matta Thomas A. Maufer Stephen McCann Kelly
P. McClellan William J. McFarland Timothy McGovern Darren P. McNamara

Justin P. McNew Irina Medvedev Pratik Mehta Mark G. Merrill Klaus Meyer
Arnaud Meylan Morgan H. Miki Robert R. Miller Seungwook Min Cimarron
Mittelsteadt Fanny Mlinarsky Andreas F. Molisch Michael Montemurro Rondal J.
Moore Rajendra T. Moorti Mike Moreton

Yuichi Morioka Steven A. Morley Patrick Mourot Markus D. Muck Syed Aon
Mujtaba Peter A. Murphy Peter Murray Andrew Myles Yukimasa Nagai Tetsuya
Nakamura Seigo Nakao Hiroyuki Nakase Bhaskar Nallapureddy Seung Hoon Nam
Sanjiv Nanda

Partha Narasimhan Slobodan Nedic Paul D. Newton Chiu Ngo

Qiang Ni Gunnar Nitsche Huaning Niu Erwin Noble Richard H. Noens Ivan F.
Oakes Knut T. Odman Masakatsu Ogawa Hiroshi Oguma Eric J. Ojard Chandra S.
Olson Timothy S. Olson Jon O’Nan Job Oostveen Satoshi Oyama Sebnem Z. Ozer
Richard H. Paine Michael J. Paljug Stephen Palm Ashish Pandharipande Paul W.
Panish Thomas Pare Jong Ae Park Steve Parker Kourosh Parsa Yaron Peleg Eldad
Perahia James E. Petranovich

Al Petrick Fahd Pirzada Joe Pitarresi Subbu Ponnuswamy Neeraj Poojary
Stephen P. Pope James D. Portaro Henry Ptasinski Aleksandar Purkovic Emily
H. Qi Luke Qian Jim E. Raab Ali Raissinia Ajay Rajkumar Taori Rakesh Sridhar
Ramesh Noman Rangwala Gregg Rasor Stephen G. Rayment Ivan Reede Stanley A.
Reible Joe A. Repice Edward Reuss Maximilian Riegel Eilon Riess Carlos A.
Rios Randy Roebuck Justinian Rosca Jon W. Rosdahl Michael Rude Marian X.
Rudolf Bahareh Sadeghi Emek Sadot Yousuf Saifullah Kazuyuki Sakoda Atul
Salhotra Hemanth Sampath Anil Sanwalka Octavian V. Sarca Toshiyuki Sashihara
Ambatipudi R. Sastry Monica Saxena Vincenzo Scarpa Richard N. Schnacke
Steven D. Schnier Erik Schylander Michael Seals Joe Sensendorf Vikram Seth
Ariel Sharon Stephen J. Shellhammer Ian Sherlock Matthew J. Sherman Ming
Sheu Shusaku Shimada Takashi Shono William M. Shvodian D. J. Shyy Thomas M.
Siep Floyd Simpson Massimiliano Siti Roger R. Skidmore Matt Smith

Kapil Sood Amjad Soomro Robert T. Soranno Ranga Srinivasan Robert Stacey R.
J. Stancavage Dorothy Stanley Martin J. Staszak William K. Steck Adrian P.
Stephens Fabrice Stevens Carl R. Stevenson Victor J. Stolpman Guenael T.
Strutt Tsutomu Sugawara Sumei Sun Shravan K. Surineni Hirokazu Tagiri Eiji
Takagi Masahiro Takagi Seiichiro Takahashi Mineo Takai Daisuke Takeda Sonal
Tambe Pek-Yew Tan Teik-Kheong Tan Hideki Tanaka Yasuhiro Tanaka Jeffrey Tao
Clifford Tavares Stephan Ten Brink Jerry Thrasher Eric T. Tokubo Alexander
Tolpin James D. Tomcik Timothy P. Towell Jason Trachewsky Solomon B. Trainin
Jean Tsao Rodger Tseng Chih C. Tsien Tom Tsoulogiannis David Tung Sandra L.
Turner Mike E. Tzamaloukas Yusuke Uchida Stefano Valle Niels Van Erven
Richard van Leeuwen Richard D. J. Van Nee Bart Van Poucke Nico J. van Waes
Allert van Zelst Fabian Varas Dmitri Varsanofiev Dalton T. Victor Bert
Visscher George A. Vlantis Nanci Vogtli Tim Wakeley Jesse R. Walker Brad N.
Wallace Vivek Wandile Huaiyuan Wang

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Christopher G. Ware Craig D. Warren Fujio Watanabe Mati A. Wax

Mark Webster Bryan Wells Jim Wendt Menzo M. Wentink Filip Weytjens Stephen
R. Whitesell Richard Williams James M. Wilson Jack H. Winters Jeffrey J.
Wojtiuk Jin Kue Wong

Timothy G. Wong Marcus Wong James Woodyatt Harry R. Worstell Charles R.
Wright Gang Wu

Ariton Xhafa Bo Xia Akiyoshi Yagi Katsuhiko Yamada Takeshi Yamamoto Tomoya
Yamaura Lily Yang

Raziq Yaqub

Huanchun Ye James Yee Chi-Hsiang Yeh Chris Young Heejung Yu Hon M. Yung Erol
K. Yurtkuran Artur Zaks

Eldad Zeira Jinyun Zhang Chunhui Zhu Jeffrey C. Zhu Juan-Carlos Zuniga
Johnny Zweig James Zyren

The following members of the individual balloting committee voted on this
revision. Balloters may have voted for approval, disapproval, or abstention.

Ahmed Abdelhalim Osama S. Aboulmagd Tomoko Adachi Toru Aihara

Keith Amann Butch Anton Charles L. Barest John R. Barr Hugh Barrass Roger
Berg Parag D. Bhatt Gennaro Boggia Matthew K. Burnburg Alistair G. Buttar
William A. Byrd James T. Carlo

Jay Catelli Clint F. Chaplin Yi-Ming Chen Yung-Mu Chen Mr Aik Chindapol
Keith Chow Tommy P. Cooper Javier Del-Prado-Pavon Kalyan R. Dharanipragada
Thomas J. Dineen Surinder K. Dureja Sourav K. Dutta Peter Ecclesine Darwin
A. Engwer John W. Fendrich Michael A. Fischer Wayne K. Fisher Andre F.
Fournier Devon L. Gayle Michael D. Geipel Fernando Genkuong Theodore
Georgantas Ian C. Gifford

James P. Gilb Nikhil Goel Sergiu R. Goma Randall C. Groves Robert M. Grow C.
G. Guy Siamack Haghighi David E. Halasz Samudra E. Haque Karl F. Heubaum
Shui H. Heung Werner Hoelzl Dennis Horwitz Yasuhiko Inoue Sergiu A.
Iordanescu Atsushi Ito

Peeya Iwagoshi Raj Jain David Johnston Bobby Jose Srinivas Kandala Junghong
Kao Efthymios G. Karabetsos Kevin J. Karcz

Stuart J. Kerry Brian G. Kiernan Yongbum Kim Patrick W. Kinney Gunter
Kleindl Thomas M. Kurihara Jeremy A. Landt Juan L. Lazaro Solomon Lee

John Lemon Daniel G. Levesque Joseph S. Levy Jan-Ray Liao William Lumpkins

G. L. Luri Kevin D. Marquess George J. Miao William J. Mitchell Jose Morales
Mike Moreton Ronald G. Murias Andrew F. Myles M. Narayanan Michael S. Newman
Erwin R. Noble Richard H. Noens Satoshi Obara Robert O’hara Stephen R. Palm
Glenn W. Parsons Paul W. Piggin Subburajan Ponnuswamy Vikram Punj Maximilian
Riegel Philip T. Robinson Stephen C. Schwarm Perry L. Schwartz William M.
Shvodian Floyd D. Simpson Jung Je Son Amjad A. Soomro Manikantan Srinivasan
Dorothy V. Stanley Thomas E. Starai Adrian P. Stephens Mark A. Sturza
Masahiro Takagi Sandra L. Turner Mark-Rene Uchida Harry R. Worstell Forrest
D. Wright Oren Yuen Janusz Zalewski

When the IEEE-SA Standards Board approved this revision on 8 March 2007, it
had the following membership:

Richard DeBlasio Julian Forster* Alex Gelman William R. Goldbach Arnold M.
Greenspan Joanna N. Guenin Kenneth S. Hanus William B. Hopf

*Steve M. Mills, **Chair **Robert M. Grow, **Vice Chair **Don Wright, **Past
Chair **Judith Gorman, **Secretary*

Richard H. Hulett Hermann Koch Joseph L. Koepfinger* John Kulick

David J. Law Glenn Parsons Ronald C. Petersen Tom A. Prevost

Narayanan Ramachandran Greg Ratta Robby Robson Anne-Marie Sahazizian
Virginia C. Sulzberger* Malcolm V. Thaden Richard L. Townsend Howard L.
Wolfman

*Member Emeritus Also included are the following nonvoting IEEE-SA Standards
Board liaisons:

Satish K. Aggarwal, *NRC Representative *Alan H. Cookson, *NIST
Representative *Virginia C. Sulzberger, *Member/TAB Representative*

Michelle D. Turner IEEE Standards Program Manager, Document Development

Michael D. Kipness IEEE Standards Program Manager, Technical Program
Development

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