13 Aug 2024 Government Relations Internet2 and The Quilt File BGP Routing Security Comments By Samuel Burns Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Internet2 and The Quilt File Joint Comments On July 17, 2024, Internet2 and The Quilt filed joint comments in response to a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Reporting on Border… Read More
01 Jul 2024 Government Relations Government Relations Update May-June 2024 By Samuel Burns Senate AI Working Group Releases Report On May 15, Senator Chuck Schumer and a bipartisan working group released a report recommending that Congress spend at least $32 billion per year to develop artificial intelligence and place safeguards around AI. This report stems from a series of… Read More
14 May 2024 Government Relations Government Relations Update March-April 2024 By Samuel Burns FCC Adopts Net Neutrality Rules On April 25 the Commissioners at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 3-2 in favor of a declaratory ruling, order, report and order, and order on reconsideration that reestablished the Commission’s authority around safeguarding a fair and open internet. While this… Read More
19 Feb 2024 Government Relations Government Relations Update January 2024 By Samuel Burns Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Internet2 Offers Testimony to Federal Precision Agriculture Task Force On January 31, George Loftus, Internet2’s AVP of Network Services, presented “How Collaboration Sustains the Regional and National R&E Broadband Infrastructure” at the first meeting of the re-chartered Task… Read More
24 Jan 2024 Government Relations Government Relations Update December 2023 By Sam Burns, Internet2 Policy Advisor Estimated reading time: 2 minutes FCC Cybersecurity Pilot Comment Period Goes Live On December 29, 2023 the comment period finally opened in the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Schools and Libraries Cybersecurity Pilot Program… Read More
12 Jan 2024 Government Relations Internet2 Files Comments in the FCC’s Open Internet Proceeding Estimated reading time: 2 minutes By Matt Hall, Internet2 Senior Policy Advisor On October 19, 2023, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) launched a new proceeding on restoring open internet protections. The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) sought comment on classifying fixed and mobile… Read More
11 Dec 2023 Government Relations Government Relations Update November 2023 By Sam Burns, Internet2 Policy Advisor Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Government Funded Into Early 2024 On November 16, President Biden signed a funding bill to prevent a government shutdown through the winter. This continuing resolution (Pub. L. 118-22) is unusual in that it is… Read More
09 Nov 2023 Government Relations Government Relations Update October 2023 Estimated reading time: 3 minutes By Sam Burns, Policy Advisor President Signs Executive Order on AI On October 30, President Biden signed Executive Order 14110 on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence. This Executive Order… Read More
06 Oct 2023 Government Relations Government Relations Update September 2023 By Sam Burns, Internet2 Policy Advisor Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Government Funded Through November 17 On September 30, just hours before a possible government shutdown, a temporary funding extension became law. This continuing resolution (H.R. 5860) will keep the government running through… Read More
18 Sep 2023 Government Relations Government Relations Update August 2023 Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Internet2 Files Comments on USF Reform in Collaboration with The Quilt and CENIC On July 27, 2023, U.S. Senators Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and John Thune (R-S.D.), the co-chairs of the Senate’s Universal Service Fund (USF)… Read More