Sentence examples for reasonable network management from inspiring English sources
The main provisions prohibit broadband providers from blocking or slowing delivery of any lawful content through their networks for any reason other than "reasonable network management" and ban so-called paid prioritization, the sale of faster delivery.
It proposed a set of basic principles — no blocking or degradation of traffic or devices, no discriminatory favoritism of affiliated services, and transparency — enforced through a case-by-case process that took into account the need for reasonable network management and the legitimacy of private "managed services" alongside the public Internet.
The proposal will allow Internet providers to engage in "reasonable network management".
"Our job is to figure out where you draw the line between unreasonable discrimination and reasonable network management".
Network management, in which broadband providers would also have to meet "reasonable network management" standards and practices.
The legal overhaul, which takes effect in May, will require national regulators to define "reasonable" network management practices.
The commission sent Verizon a letter stating that "'reasonable network management'" was not "a loophole designed to enhance [their] revenue streams".
"I know of no past commission statement that would treat as 'reasonable network management' a decision to slow traffic to a user who has paid, after all, for 'unlimited' service," wrote Mr Wheeler.
"I know of no past Commission statement that would treat as 'reasonable network management' a decision to slow traffic to a user who has paid, after all, for 'unlimited' service," Wheeler wrote.
In the absence of new rules from Brussels, individual European countries will define their own versions of "reasonable" network traffic management, in most cases leaving great discretion to network operators, said Chris Marsden, a senior lecturer on Internet law at the University of Essex in Britain.
The FCC says it wants to allow "just and reasonable" network management a term so vague that efforts to enforce that standard are likely to invite court challenges.
