In his ongoing commitment to keeping a “free and open Internet,” President Barack Obama announce this morning a strict net neutrality plan he’s urging the Federal Communications Commission to adopt.

“Net neutrality” has been built into the fabric of the Internet since its creation—but it is also a principle that we cannot take for granted,” Obama said in a statement this morning. “We cannot allow Internet service providers (ISPs) to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas.” The plan that Obama’s administration outlined is a strict “net neutrality” plan in that it advocates for a completely free and open Internet, asking that ISPs aren’t allowed to block any legal website or throttle (intentionally slow down or speed up content) for certain websites, and calls for increased transparency, as finally no paid prioritization. Paid prioritization is when a service is “stuck in a ‘slow lane’ because it doesn’t pay a fee to its ISP.

“If carefully designed, these rules should not create any undue burden for ISPs, and can have clear, monitored exceptions for reasonable network management and for specialized services such as dedicated, mission-critical networks serving a hospital,” Obama said. “But combined, these rules mean everything for preserving the Internet’s openness.”

Ultimately, however, it’s not up to Obama to implement this plan, but rather the FCC, which is an independent agency. The FCC tried to implement a plan to protect net neutrality four years ago, but those rules were eventually challenged by the court, “not because it disagreed with the need to protect net neutrality, but because it believed the FCC had taken the wrong legal approach,” Obama said.

“This is a basic acknowledgment of the services ISPs provide to American homes and businesses, and the straightforward obligations necessary to ensure the network works for everyone,” he said, “not just one or two companies.”