FCC Launches Network Neutrality Paperwork Approval Process

Apparently, last week, the Federal Communications Commission sent notice of the new network neutrality rules to be published in the Federal Register.

It is not the rules themselves, but instead the a notice seeking comment on the portions of those rules, enforcement and transparency, that require new paperwork and thus must be approved by the Office of Management and Budget before the regulatory changes can be published in the Federal Register, at which point they can be challenged in court. Because the FCC has a 60-day comment period from whenever that notice seeking comment is published -- expected sometime this week -- and then the Office of management and Budget has its own 30-day comment period before it publishes them, the earliest the actual rules could be published and thus trigger a court challenge of the regulatory change is early May