# Structure and Practices of the Video Relay Services Program
> **Federal Communications Commission** · Final rule. · Published 2017-08-22 · Effective 2017-09-21 · 82 FR 39673
## Document
- **Document number:** 2017-17225
- **Category:** accessibility
- **Federal Register citation:** 82 FR 39673
- **CFR reference:** 47 CFR 64
- **Publication date:** 2017-08-22
- **Effective date:** 2017-09-21
- **FCC docket:** CG Docket Nos. 10-51 and 03-123
## Abstract

In this document, the Commission adopts a four-year rate plan to compensate video relay service (VRS) providers, amends its rules to permit-server based routing for VRS and point-to-point calls, authorizes the continued use of money from the Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS) Fund for Commission-supervised research and development, eliminates rules providing for a neutral video communications service platform, and reinstates the effectiveness of the rule incorporating the VRS Interoperability Profile technical standard.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/08/22/2017-17225/structure-and-practices-of-the-video-relay-services-program)
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