The draft bill first released in mid-September and re-released with changes last week (click for PDF), proposes rules for three prongs of broadband services: Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), broadband video services and broadband Internet transmission services, or BITS.

It's all part of Congress's drive to update the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which does not address the Internet and therefore "no longer reflects the technological and competitive reality," said Rep. Joe
Barton, the Texas Republican who chairs the House committee that has taken charge of drafting new regulations.

"There is no reason that Xbox Live should have to offer E911 service, nor should a collaborative work program like Live Meeting."

Major Internet players said they appreciated the effort but were troubled on several levels by the direction the current draft takes.

In apresident said he would veto any bill calling for new sanctions at this point.

Cameron agreed and said he has - on this visit - personally asked some members of Congress not to support sanctions. Cameron said it would not be right for a British leader to tell U.S. lawmakers what to do.

“But simply to make the point as a country that stands alongside America in these vital negotiations that it's the opinion of the United Kingdom that further sanctions or further threat of sanctions at this point won't actually help to bring the talks to a successful conclusion, and they could fracture the international unity that there's been which has been so valuable in presenting a united front to Iran,” he said.

But if diplomacy fails, Obama repeated his