ATIS Volunteers for Broadband Clearinghouse

Given the increasingly significant role of broadband to our nation's technological and economic advancement, ATIS, a global standards development and technical planning organization, supports the creation of an information repository or "clearinghouse" whereby broadband best practices would be widely available to all stakeholders interested in gaining insight into broadband infrastructure, broadband deployment and broadband projects. ATIS supports the development and maintenance of voluntary broadband best practice that would enable interested parties and stakeholders to have easy access to broadband information. Additionally, ATIS urges the Commission to ensure that the creation and maintenance of a broadband clearinghouse have appropriate industry-level review particularly by those with the knowledge and expertise to assess the effectiveness and feasibility of a proposed best practice. Additionally, ATIS strongly believes that the broadband clearinghouse would best be maintained by an industry-neutral entity, such as ATIS. ATIS would welcome the opportunity to serve in this capacity.