Mozilla’s petition to treat remote data services as...

Mozilla’s petition to treat remote data services as a Title II service (CD May 8 p25) “represents a legally, and practically, viable path forward,” the company told an aide to FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel Thursday, an ex parte filing said (http://bit.ly/1sb5bbD). It would be a way for the commission to anchor effective open Internet rules, including no blocking, nondiscrimination and no paid prioritization to fixed or mobile Internet access services, Mozilla said. The company discussed the “substantive and procedural intersections” between its petition and the open net neutrality proceeding. It also discussed “ways to support open Internet rules through Title II authority,” the filing said. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is facing pressure to postpone Thursday’s net neutrality NPRM vote. (See separate report above in this issue.)