Since When Did Nearly 10 Years of Study Become a "Rush"?

[Commentary] The most recent reminder of my age and wisdom/oncoming decrepitude is the rather silly argument that we are somehow "rushing" into network neutrality — because nearly ten years of study and debate cannot possibly be enough to justify this being the first major policy initiative for the Genachowski Federal Communications Commission. Yes, it was 9 years ago last month when the FCC launched its first inquiry asking how to classify "high speed access to the Internet over cable and other facilities. Back then, of course (as I explained in my first net neutrality blog post back in 2006) we didn't have the term "network neutrality." We talked about interconnection obligations and the prohibition on messing with user content and the ability to connect devices to the network, but we didn't have the term "network neutrality." Instead, we talked about the far more ambitious "open access," which meant allowing retail competitors to lease access to the underlying network (or at least have interconnection access at key points).