I’ve said before that I think we have a lot of learn from groups such as Connected Nation. Somehow they have captured the attention and the imagination of legislators. I don’t always buy into their plan and procedures – but they are doing something very right.

Well now they have captured the imagination of the incumbents. OK that’s not new there has always been a link from one to the other – but recently the incumbents AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and others sent a note to Congress outlining a new broadband policy for them and Connected Nation seems to be the model they are touting.

That’s great! It reminds me of my least favorite past co-worker who I affectionately called Boss Junior. She wasn’t really my boss, she couldn’t (or wouldn’t) do her own job, but she had a lot of helpful advice for me. She didn’t have a Master’s Degree in Library Science, she had a very vested interest in how I did or didn’t do my job and she didn’t get why that should matter. (She was helpful to everyone, not just me.) Often I wondered why in the heck she didn’t just spend half of the energy just doing her own job – but she never did. She preferred to get us all spinning our wheels, than working. (Eventually, that workplace closed its doors.)

So maybe that story relates; maybe it doesn’t.

Last night Karl Bode from Broadband Reports posted a great and more explicit article on his views on “Nation’s Largest ISPs Crafting Fake National Broadband Policy.”