"If there is to be regulation, therefore, it must apply equally to all providers." So wrote the National Cable and Telecommunications Association to the Federal Communications Commission today. The point? Plenty of colleges and universities have "network management" strategies too, NCTA asserts. The trade group has sent a carefully crafted list of these stated policies to the FCC.

NCTA vice president Daniel L. Brenner says that his chart proves that "virtually all of the nation's top universities... restrict users' ability to engage in activities that cause excessive congestion." From the document it looks like NCTA staff grabbed U.S. News and World Report's ranking of top colleges, rummaged around the schools' IT Web sites, then selectively cut-and-pasted their stated computing policies in the filing. [ more ]

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