The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should reclassify broadband as a regulated public utility in order to achieve net neutrality, but take a “light touch” while doing it, a U.S. lawmaker said Wednesday.

The FCC should be selective about what public utility-style regulations it should apply to broadband, Representative Anna Eshoo, a California Democrat, wrote in a letter to the FCC.

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, issued a net neutrality proposal in May that would allow “commercially reasonable” traffic management, but would not reclassify broadband. However, that route would not be “adequate to protect free speech, competition and the continued openness of the Internet,” Eshoo wrote.

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