Re: EFF Call for sign-ons: ISPs, networking companies and engineers opposed to FCC privacy repeal

["Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>]

I am somehow please that Mr. Glass does not find me a “knowledgeable network professional”. It feels like a badge of 
honor. Any other “not” knowledgeable network professionals want to come forward and accept this badge?

Personally, I find the FCC’s current rules to be sub-optimal. But saying a gov’t regulation is sub-optimal is like 
saying water is wet. The question is not whether the regulation could be improved. It is whether the proposed changes 
are an improvement.

To be 10000% clear: I prefer the current privacy regime over the new one being proposed.

Oh, and I do not believe the EFF is just a shill for Google. But then, I’m just a not knowledgeable network 
professional, so what do I know?

-- 
TTFN,
patrick

> On Mar 27, 2017, at 7:13 PM, Brett Glass <nanog () brettglass com> wrote:
>
> All:
>
> It's worth noting that most of EFF's list consists of individuals and/or politically connected organizations, not 
> actual ISPs. This is for good reason. EFF was founded with the intention of creating a civil rights organization but 
> has morphed into a captive corporate lobbying shop for Google, to which several of its board members have close 
> financial ties. EFF opposes the interests of hard working ISPs and routinely denigrates them and attempts to foster 
> promotes hatred of them. It also promotes and lobbies for regulations which advantage Google and disadvantage ISPs -- 
> including the so-called "broadband privacy" regulations, which heavily burden ISPs while exempting Google from all 
> oversight.
>
> No knowledgeable network professional or ISP would support the current FCC rules. Both they AND the FCC's illegal 
> Title II classification of ISPs must be rolled back, restoring the FTC's ability to apply uniform and apolitical 
> privacy standards to all of the players in the Internet ecosystem. The first step is to support S.J. Res 34/H.J. Res 
> 86, the Congressional resolution which would revoke the current FCC regulations that were written and paid for by 
> Google and its lobbyists. So, DO contact  your legislators... but do so in support of the resolutions that will 
> repeal the regulations. It is vital to the future of the Internet.
>
> --Brett Glass, Owner and Founder, LARIAT.NET
>
> At 05:05 PM 3/26/2017, Peter Eckersley wrote:
>
> > Dear network operators,
> >
> > I'm sure this is a controversial topic in the NANOG community, but EFF and a
> > number of ISPs and networking companies are writing to Congress opposing the
> > repeal of the FCC's broadband privacy rules, which require explicit opt-in
> > consent before ISPs use or sell sensitive, non-anonymized data (including
> > non-anonymized locations and browsing histories).
> >
> > If you or your employer would like to sign on to such a letter, please reply
> > off-list by midday Monday with your name, and a one-sentence description of
> > your affiliation and/or major career accomplishments.