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 <na...@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.

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