“As individuals who have worked on the Internet and its predecessors continuously beginning in the late 1960s, we are very concerned that access to the Internet be both open and robust," the letter said. "We believe that the existing Internet access landscape in the U.S. provides inadequate choices to discipline the market through facilities-based competition alone. Your network neutrality proposals will help protect U.S. Internet users' choices for and freedom to access all available Internet services, worldwide, while still providing for responsible network operation and management practices."
In recent days, 90 U.S. lawmakers, several minority groups and telecom-related companies including Cisco Systems and Nokia have expressed concern about new net neutrality regulations.