FCC dealt major blow in net neutrality ruling favoring, Comcast

Mon Apr 12 21:10:55 UTC 2010

   Thanks for pointing that out.
   RB
   On 4/12/2010 2:06 PM, Stonix Farstone wrote:

   On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Richard Bennett
   <[1]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.
   [2]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

   vvi

   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

   vii

   viii

   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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References

   1. mailto:richard at bennett.com
   2. http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802.11-2007.pdf