Susan Crawford's blog has a link to the FCC's Proposed Rulemaking[edit to fix href] on "IP-enabled services." Susan points out that this covers email and it obviously covers all sorts of games as well. The thrust of the rulemaking effort is VoIP but the proposal is much broader in scope, including such gems as Section 16:
". . . it may become increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish “voice” service from “data” service . . . ."
Wouldn't it be great if all online games and email had to support E911 service? Section 53:
"Against this backdrop, we seek comment in this proceeding on the potential applicability of 911, E911, and related critical infrastructure regulation to VoIP and other IP-enabled services."
Wait, it gets better. Section 54:
"We also seek comment on whether VoIP and other IP-enabled services are technologically and operationally capable of delivering call-back and location information"
I've previously posted about the improved rulemaking process. Perhaps this is an opportunity to put theory into practice.
oof. someone lose a quote at the end of their href?
Posted by: weasel | Apr 22, 2004 at 08:05