[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 179 (Tuesday, September 16, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55485-55486]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-22058]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[WC Docket No. 14-28; DA 14-1310]


Panelist Information for Open Internet Roundtables

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In this document, the Commission released a public notice 
announcing panelist names and other information for a series of 
roundtables. The intended effect of this document is to make the public 
aware of the event and the agenda for the roundtables.

DATES: Tuesday, September 16, 2014, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

ADDRESSES: Federal Communications Commission, Commission Meeting Room 
(TW-C305), 445 12th Street SW., Washington, DC 20554.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kristine Fargotstein, Competition 
Policy Division, Wireline Competition Bureau, at (202) 418-2774 or by 
email at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a summary of the Commission's 
document in WC Docket No. 14-28, DA 14-1310 released September 9, 2014. 
The complete text in this document is available for public inspection 
and copying during normal business hours in the FCC Reference 
Information Center, Portals II, 445 12th Street SW., Room CY-A257, 
Washington, DC 20554. The document may also be purchased from the 
Commission's duplicating contractor, Best Copy and Printing, Inc., 445 
12th Street SW., Room CY-B402, Washington, DC 20554, telephone (800) 
378-3160 or (202) 863-2893, facsimile (202) 863-2898, or via the 
Internet at http://www.bcpiweb.com. It is available on the Commission's 
Web site at http://www.fcc.gov.
    The roundtables will be free and open to the public, and the FCC 
also will stream them live at http://www.fcc.gov/live. The location of 
the roundtables will be the Commission Meeting Room (TW-C305), 445 12th 
Street SW., Washington, DC 20554. The FCC will make available an 
overflow room for those in-person attendees who cannot be accommodated 
in the Commission Meeting Room. We advise persons planning to attend 
the roundtables in person to leave sufficient time to enter through 
building security.
    The FCC encourages members of the public to submit suggested 
questions in advance and during the roundtables by email to 
[email protected] or on Twitter using the hashtag 
#FCCRoundtables. Please note that by submitting a question, you 
will be making a filing in an official FCC proceeding. All information 
submitted, including names, addresses, and other personal information 
contained in the message, may be publicly available online.
    Reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities are 
available upon request. The request should include a detailed 
description of the accommodation needed and contact information. We ask 
that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible in order 
to allow the agency to satisfy such requests whenever possible. Send an 
email to [email protected] or call the Consumer and Governmental Affairs 
Bureau at 202-418-0530 (voice), 202-418-0432 (TTY).

Proposed Agenda

    The Wireline Competition Bureau, Consumer & Governmental Affairs 
Bureau, and the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau of the Federal 
Communications Commission (FCC) provide panelist names and other 
information about the first two events in the Open Internet roundtable 
series: ``Policy Approaches to Ensure an Open Internet'' and ``Mobile 
Broadband and the Open Internet,'' which will both take place on 
September 16, 2014. These workshops were previously announced in a 
Public Notice. At that time, it was unclear whether the workshop would 
be a ``meeting'' of the Commission. As such, that Public Notice was not 
published in the Federal Register. This Public Notice shall serve as 
notice that a quorum of Commissioners may be

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present at one or more roundtables, in compliance with Part 0, Subpart 
F of the Commission's rules. This Notice does not, however, change the 
``permit-but-disclose'' status of the Open Internet proceeding under 
the Commission's ex parte rules.

Policy Approaches To Ensure an Open Internet

8:30-8:45 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:45-10:15 a.m. Roundtable 1: Tailoring Policy to Harms

    Two fundamental questions will guide this roundtable: What are the 
harms to Internet openness in the absence of open Internet regulations, 
and what are the right policies to address those harms?

    Panelists:

Althea Erickson, Policy Director, Etsy
Julie Kearney, Vice President, Consumer Electronics Association
Randolph May, President, Free State Foundation
Barbara van Schewick, Professor of Law, Stanford University
Michael Weinberg, Vice President, Public Knowledge
David Young, Vice President, Federal Regulatory Affairs, Verizon

    Moderators:

Julie Veach, Chief, Wireline Competition Bureau, FCC
Matthew DelNero, Deputy Chief, Wireline Competition Bureau, FCC

10:30 a.m.-Noon Roundtable 2: Scope of Open Internet Rules

    This roundtable will consider the proper scope of new open Internet 
rules, with a focus on the definition of reasonable network management, 
treatment of specialized services, and whether new rules should extend 
to the point of interconnection between last-mile Internet service 
providers (ISPs) and other networks and services (i.e., Internet 
traffic exchange).

    Panelists:

Jeff Campbell, Vice President, The Americas, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Daniel Pataki, Executive Director, European Telecommunications Network 
Operators (ETNO)
Jon M. Peha, Professor, Engineering & Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon 
Univ.
Matt Wood, Policy Director, Free Press
Corie Wright, Director of Global Public Policy, Netflix, Inc.
Christopher Yoo, John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and 
Computer & Information Science, Univ. of Pennsylvania Law School

    Moderators:

Julie Veach, Chief, Wireline Competition Bureau, FCC
Matthew DelNero, Deputy Chief, Wireline Competition Bureau, FCC

Noon-1:00 p.m. Lunch Break
1:00-2:30 p.m. Roundtable 3: Enhancing Transparency

    This roundtable will consider proposed enhancements to the existing 
transparency rule, which currently requires providers of broadband 
Internet access services to disclose accurate information about their 
service offerings and make this information accessible to the public.

    Panelists:
Jonathan Banks, Senior Vice President, Law and Policy, USTelecom
Gerald R. Faulhaber, Professor Emeritus of Business Economics and 
Public Policy, Wharton School of the Univ. of Pennsylvania
Leigh Freund, VP & Chief Counsel, Global Public Policy, AOL Inc.
Geoffrey Manne, Executive Director & Founder, International Center for 
Law & Economics (ICLE)
Claude L. Stout, Executive Director, TDI (f/k/a Telecommunications for 
the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

    Moderators:

Kris Monteith, Acting Chief, Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau, 
FCC
Julie Veach, Chief, Wireline Competition Bureau, FCC

Mobile Broadband and the Open Internet

2:45-3:00 p.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
3:00-4:30 p.m. Roundtable: Mobile Broadband and the Open Internet
    This roundtable will consider the application of Open Internet 
rules to mobile broadband, with a focus on consumers' use of mobile 
broadband and on reasonable network management practices in the mobile 
context.

    Panelists:
Amalia Deloney, Policy Director, The Center for Media Justice
Delara Derakhshani, Policy Counsel, Consumers Union
Christopher Guttman-McCabe, Executive Vice President, CTIA--The 
Wireless Association
Roslyn Layton, Ph.D. Fellow, Center for Communication, Media and 
Information Technologies, Aalborg University
Sarah Morris, Senior Policy Counsel, Open Technology Institute, New 
America
Jonathan Spalter, Chair, Mobile Future

    Moderators:

Roger Sherman, Chief, Wireless Telecommunication Bureau, FCC
Jim Schlichting, Senior Deputy Chief, Wireless Telecommunication 
Bureau, FCC

Federal Communications Commission.
Claude Aiken,
Acting Deputy Division Chief, Competition Policy Division, Wireline 
Competition Bureau.
[FR Doc. 2014-22058 Filed 9-15-14; 8:45 am]
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