There has been no shortage of things to talk about since FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced his intentions to regulate the Internet under Title II. So it was timely that NextGenWeb sat down with Dr. Ev Ehrlich, who served as the Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs in the Clinton Administration and also was the principal economic policy official for Commerce Secretaries Brown and Kantor. He is a leading business economist and author of the blog “Ev Ehrlich’s Everyday Economics.”

Dr. Ehrlich recently posted a blog on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that said the FCC does not have the authority to regulate broadband Internet services. He also touches on the FCC’s reaction to that federal court ruling, which was laid out in Chairman Genachowski’s “Third Way” remarks. Ehrlich says this “third way” is meant to be somewhere between the Title I classification that broadband currently falls under, and the heavy-handed regulatory approach of Title II that Net neutrality advocates have been clamoring for.

Dr. Ehrlich sees it a different way. Click below to find out why he has dubbed it “Way 2.1.”

Introduction to the Issue

The FCC’s problem and their proposed solution

Why the third way is actually way 2.1

What does all this mean for the future of the Internet?

What happens next?

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