The mission of the FCC's Open Internet Advisory Committee (OIAC) is to track and evaluate the effects of the FCC's Open Internet rules, and to provide any recommendations it deems appropriate to the FCC regarding policies and practices related to preserving the open Internet. The OIAC is organized under the authority of the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Its members were announced May 25, 2012.
The first OIAC full public meeting was held Friday, July 20, 2012 from 10:00am to 12:00pm at the Federal Communications Commission, Commission Meeting Room, 445 12th Street SW, Washington DC 20554. Watch the video.
The OIAC is composed of the following members:
- Chairman, Open Internet Advisory Committee, Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Co-Founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, as Special Government Employee
- Vice Chair, Open Internet Advisory Committee, David Clark, Senior Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, as Special Government Employee
Open Internet Advisory Committee Members
- Harvey Anderson, Vice President of Business Affairs & General Counsel, Mozilla
- Brad Burnham, Founding Partner, Union Square Ventures
- Alissa Cooper, Chief Computer Scientist, Center for Democracy & Technology
- Leslie Daigle, Chief Internet Technology Officer, Internet Society
- Jessica Gonzalez, Executive Board, Media and Democracy Coalition; Vice President for Policy & Legal Affairs, National Hispanic Media Coalition (representing NHMC)
- Shane Greenstein, Professor and Kellogg Chair of Information Technology, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, as Special Government Employee
- Russell Housley, Chair, Internet Engineering Task Force; Founder of Vigil Security, LLC (representing Vigil Security, LLC)
- Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer, Netflix
- Charles Kalmanek, Vice President of Research, AT&T
- Matthew Larsen, CEO, Vistabeam
- Kevin McElearney, Senior Vice President for Network Engineering, Comcast
- Marc Morial, President & CEO, National Urban League
- Matthew N. Murphy, Senior Vice President, Disney and ESPN Media Networks
- Jennifer Rexford, Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University, as Special Government Employee
- Dennis Roberson, Vice Provost & Research Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (representing T-Mobile), as Special Government Employee
- Chip Sharp, Director, Technology Policy and Internet Governance, Cisco Systems
- Charles Slocum, Assistant Executive Director, Writers Guild of America, West
- Marcus Weldon, Chief Technology Officer, Alcatel-Lucent
- Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder & Head of User Experience, CloudFlare
FCC Staff Team
- Tejas Narechania, Designated Federal Officer
- Henning Schulzrinne, Chief Technologist
- Deborah Broderson, Deputy Designated Federal Officer
Charter: The Committee's Objectives and the Scope of Its Activities
The OIAC's mission is to track and evaluate the effects of the FCC's Open Internet rules, and to provide any recommendations it deems appropriate to the FCC regarding policies and practices related to preserving the open Internet. The OIAC will observe market developments regarding the freedom and openness of the Internet and will focus in particular on issues addressed in the FCC's Open Internet rules, such as transparency, reasonable network management practices, differences in treatment of fixed and mobile broadband services, specialized services, technical standards, and the state of competition.
Releases
- May 7, 2013 – Meeting of the Open Internet Advisory Committee OIAC)
- March 11, 2013 – Public Notice Announcing Date of Meeting of the Open Internet Advisory Committee (OIAC)
- January 17, 2013 – Meeting of the Open Internet Advisory Committee (OIAC)
- View the meeting video for the January 17, 2013 meeting
- Meeting minutes for the January 17, 2013 meeting
- Mobile Broadband Working Group Facetime Report
- Specialized Services Working Group Report
- Economic Impact Working Group Data Cap Report
- December 7, 2012 – Public Notice Announcing Date of Meeting of the Open Internet Advisory Committee (OIAC)
- October 9, 2012 - Meeting of the Open Internet Advisory Committee (OIAC)
- View the meeting video for the October 9, 2012 meeting
- View presentation from the October 9, 2012 meeting (Slide 5 corrected)
- Meeting minutes for the October 9, 2012 meeting
- Public Comments
- Henry Hardy comment
- August 31, 2012 – Notice Concerning the Ex Parte Status of Information Submitted to the Open Internet Advisory Committee
- August 31, 2012 – Public Notice Announcing Date of Meeting of the Open Internet Advisory Committee
- July 20, 2012 - Meeting of the Open Internet Advisory Committee (OIAC)
- View the meeting video for the July 20, 2012 meeting
- June 21, 2012 - Public Notice Announcing Date of Meeting of the Open Internet Advisory Committee
- May 25, 2012 - Public Notice Announcing Members on the Open Internet Advisory Committee
- August 31, 2011 - Public Notice Extending Deadline for Membership Nominations for Open Internet Advisory Committee by Thirty Days
- June 30, 2011 - Public Notice Requesting Nominations for Membership on Open Internet Advisory Committee
