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Re: As if you don't have enough to read..

2015-03-14 12:25:55
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 you write:
The US regulatory process provides both individuals and organizations
opportunities for input, both through written and oral contributions.
Submitting a comment is easier than writing an I-D, as no XML is required,
but there are deadlines ("comment periods") just as for I-Ds.

I haven't gotten through the 400 pages yet, but a lot of what I've
seen in the runup and analysis, suggests that the mental model of the
people writing the rules doesn't match the actual Internet very well,
e.g., using packet loss as a metric of network quality.

I realize the ISOC doesn't lobby, but I'd think there'd be plenty of
room for genuinely non-partisan education, about how the Internet is
different from telephones.

R's,
John