content regulation, was Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

Sat Feb 28 17:32:33 UTC 2015

On 02/28/2015 09:53 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> ...Spam, the slang term for unsolicited bulk email (UBE), is a form of 
> denial-of-service attack and may/should be treated in the same way as 
> other DoS attacks. ---rsk 
47CFR§8.11(d) Reasonable network management. A network management 
practice is reasonable if it is appropriate and tailored to achieving a 
legitimate network management purpose, taking into account the 
particular network architecture and technology of the broadband Internet 
access service.

Classic FCC wordsmithing, and seems to cover the DoS case nicely when 
you look through the rest of §8 for instances of the term 'reasonable 
network management.'

Yes, it is amorphous, ambiguous, and all those things regulations 
usually are.  (Like being up for interpretation.)  It remains to be seen 
whether §8 will survive appeal.