Are CEI and ONA separate pieces of a U.S. policy to accomplish broad network interconnection?
These are elements of a regulatory strategy ultimately intended to provide all users (end users and service providers) with broad access to a range of services at reasonable costs. To reach this result, the FCC has tried to ensure that anyone seeking to provide (or simply to make use of) a particular service is given reasonable access to and use of the features of the increasingly intelligent network that are necessary to the functioning of such service.62 CEI, as its name implies, may be properly viewed as a fairly straightforward requirement of equal treatment through interconnection; but ONA is a more ambitious effort to organize networks along principles of openness and universal accessibility. In this regard, ONA is more than a plan for interconnection; it is a plan for interoperability.63 CEI was adopted as part of a transitional, interim strategy for expanding the openness and accessibility of the intelligent network. ONA is the longer term objective that subsumes CEI. ONA invol
