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The program [.pdf] for the FCC hearing at Harvard Law School next Monday, February 25, on network management practices, is essentially complete. I've written several times about how the Network Management Exception throws a monkey wrench into what otherwise would be simple network neutrality rules.

The hearing is open to the public! All y'all come now.

Here's the program:

11:00 a.m. Welcome/Opening Remarks
11:45 a.m. Technology Demonstration – Gilles BianRosa, Chief Executive Officer, Vuze,
Inc.
12:00 p.m. Panel Discussion 1: Policy Perspectives
Marvin Ammori, General Counsel, Free Press
Yochai Benkler, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Faculty Co-Director,
Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School
The Honorable Daniel E. Bosley, State Representative, Massachusetts
David L. Cohen, Executive Vice President, Comcast Corporation
The Honorable Tom Tauke, Executive Vice President – Public Affairs, Policy and
Communications, Verizon Communications
Timothy Wu, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Christopher S. Yoo, Professor of Law and Director, Center for Technology,
Innovation, and Competition, University of Pennsylvania Law School
1:30 Lunch break
2:15 Panel Discussion 2: Technological Perspectives
Daniel Weitzner, Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Decentralized
Information Group
Richard Bennett, Network Architect
David Clark, Senior Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Eric Klinker, Chief Technology Officer, BitTorrent
David P. Reed, Adjunct Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media
Lab
Scott Smyers, Senior Vice President, Network & Systems Architecture Division,
Sony Electronics Inc.
3:45 p.m. Closing Remarks
4:00 p.m. Adjournment

Looks fascinating.

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