NTIA Offers Thoughts on National Broadband Plan

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has filed comments in the Federal Communications Commission's National Broadband Plan proceeding. The comments focus on public safety, homeland security and cybersecurity. NTIA stresses that the broadband plan should recognize the layered model that has allowed the Internet to become a transformative technology that empowers people, spurs innovation, facilitates trade, and enables the free and unfettered flow of information. The NTIA also submitted a white paper entitled "Executive Branch Views on Public Safety, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity Elements of a National Broadband Plan." The paper stresses that the plan should identify measures taken to enhance cybersecurity and recognize the responsibility shared by both public and private sector interests in creating effective, coordinated, and cooperative strategies to mitigate the cyber threat.