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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION’S 
OFFICE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY ESTABLISHES 
TECHNICAL ADVISORY PROCESS FOR OPEN INTERNET PROCEEDING AND 
ANNOUNCES WORKSHOP
Washington, D.C. – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today announced that the 
Chief of the FCC’s Office of Engineering & Technology (OET) has established a Technical 
Advisory Process to ensure that decisions in the Commission’s proceeding on the open Internet 
reflect a thorough understanding of current technology and future technology trends.  The 
process will provide an inclusive, open, and transparent forum for obtaining the best technical 
data and insights from a broad range of stakeholders, including through a public workshop on 
December 8, 2009 in the Commission meeting room.
The Technical Advisory Process was called for in the FCC’s October 22, 2009 Notice of 
Proposed Rulemaking, “In the Matter of Preserving the Open Internet, Broadband Industry 
Practices” (FCC 09-93), GN Docket No. 09-191, WN Docket 07-52, which proposed draft rules 
to preserve the open Internet.  OET has now established a technical working group comprised of 
engineers and technologists from across the FCC’s bureaus and offices to receive information 
from stakeholders on the technical issues in the open Internet proceeding.  The working group 
will hold ex parte meetings with engineers and other interested parties to understand the range of 
views in the technical community on the issues presented by the open Internet rulemaking, 
identify any areas of common ground between stakeholders, and clarify the scope of key 
differences.  In addition, FCC engineers from the working group will be integrated into other 
teams within the Commission considering the various issues raised in the open Internet 
proceeding.
The Technical Advisory Process will include a workshop on December 8, 2009 starting at 10 
a.m. in the Commission meeting room, which will be open to the public and live streamed via the 
Internet.  The workshop will consist of tutorial presentations by experts on network management 
practices for various Internet access service delivery platforms, followed by questions from the 
Commission’s technical working group and members of the public.
An agenda for the workshop will be made available soon.  The workshop will be open to the 
public; however, admittance will be limited to the seating available.  Audio/video coverage of 
the workshop will be broadcast live with open captioning over the Internet from the website for 
this proceeding at http://www.openinternet.gov. 
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Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities are available upon request.  Please 
include a description of the accommodation you will need.  Individuals making such requests 
must include their contact information should FCC staff need to contact them for more 
information.  Requests should be made as early as possible.  Please send an e-mail to 
fcc504@fcc.gov or call the Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau: 202-418-0530 (voice), 
202-418-0432 (TTY).  
For additional information about the workshop, please contact Walter Johnson at (202) 418-0807 
or by email at walter.johnston@fcc.gov, or Jon Peha at (202) 418-2406 or by email at 
jon.peha@fcc.gov.
Parties wishing to meet with the technical working group should contact Sandra Mata at (202) 
418-2470 or by e-mail at sandra.mata@fcc.gov .
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