<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000; font-size:10pt;"><div><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000; font-size:10pt;"><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style=""><span style="line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:10pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US">Dear all, (apologies for crossposting)<br> <br> This is a Request for Comments with regard to the development of two Policy Statements on </span></span></span></span></span></font><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style=""><span style="line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:10pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US"><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style=""><span style="line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:10pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US">Net Neutrality </span></span></span></span></span></font>promoted by <font style="">members of </font>the <a href="http://www.networkneutrality.info/members.html" target="_blank">IGF Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality</a> (DCNN) and the <a href="https://www.thisisnetneutrality.org/?lang=en" target="_blank">Global Coalition on Net Neutrality</a> (GNN), to be discussed within the IGF community at<font style="">-</font>large.</span></span></span></span></span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><br></font><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><b style=""><span style="line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:10pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></span></b></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><b style=""><span style="line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:10pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US"></span></span></span>SUBJECT</span></b></font><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US"><br>
The development of the DRAFT Net Neutrality Policy Statements aims at
promoting the endorsement of an agreed position on net neutrality by the
IGF community, based on the <a href="http://www.networkneutrality.info/sources.html" target="_blank">Model Framework on Network Neutrality</a> developed by the DCNN.</span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US"><br> </span></font></div><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"> </font><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US">The development of these Policy Statements is consistent with the <a href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/documents/igf-meeting/igf-2014-istanbul/308-igf-2014-chairs-summary-final/file" target="_blank">Final Chair's Summary of the IGF 2014</a>,
according to which "The ninth IGF concluded with looking at the role of
the IGF in taking the network neutrality discussion forward. [...] The
Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality will continue the discussions
leading up to the 2015 meeting, but the view was also held that there
was a need to develop a process that allowed the entire IGF community to
weigh in and validate the findings of the Dynamic Coalition."</span></font></div><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"> </font><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US"><br></span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US">The DCNN Model Framework (MF) was presented at the 8th IGF in Bali and included in a Report on "<a href="http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/standardsetting/media/cdmsi/CDMSI%282013%29Misc19_en.pdf" target="_blank">Protecting Human Rights through Network Neutrality</a>"
delivered to the Council of Europe Steering Committee on Media and
Information Society to be used as a working document for the elaboration
of a Draft Recommendation on Net Neutrality. To date, the MF has been
conveyed to several Parliamentary assemblies (EU Parliament, Argentinian
Senate and South Korean Parliament) by DCNN members. However, although
it has already played an inspirational role, the model has never been
officially validated by the IGF community at-large, as pointed out by
the Chairs Summary. This lack of validation is primarily due to the lack
of an official validation process for dynamic coalitions' outcomes
within the IGF structure. The development of the Policy Statements aims
therefore at filling this gap through a self-organised and bottom-up
process, which is the very essence of the IGF.</span></font></div><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"> </font><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US"><br> <b style="">DRAFT POLICY STATEMENTS</b></span></font><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><b style=""><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US"></span></b></font></div><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"> </font><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US">During the <a href="https://www.rightscon.org/index" target="_blank">RightsCon</a>
joint meeting of the DCNN and the GNN, consensus emerged as regards the
elaboration of one or more DRAFT Net Neutrality Policy Statement(s) to
be presented to the IGF MAG and discussed - and hopefully endorsed - by
the IGF community at-large. </span></font></div><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"> </font><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US"><br> T</span></font><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-GB">he
initial DRAFT policy statements are in attachment. The first policy
statement (I. On Network Neutrality) aims at providing a concise and
"human readable" version of the MF, while the second statement (II. On
Specialised Services) aims at expanding the MF definition and provisions
on specialised services, adding some further elements. </span></font><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US"></span></font></div><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"> </font><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US">The statements also include a </span></font><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-GB">"restyling"
of the MF (APPENDIX Model Framework v.2.0). The original provisions of
the MF have been reorganised within this restyled version, in order to
identify with more clarity the key issues that should be evoked in the
policy statements. The only modification to the MF content concerns the
expansion of the specialised service provisions, in order include the
additional elements that are proposed in Statement II.<br></span></font></div><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"> </font><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US"><br> <b style="">DRAFTERS </b><br> According to <a href="http://www.networkneutrality.info/about.html" target="_blank">DC NN Rules of Procedure</a>,
two drafters have been designated in order to "manage the elaboration
of the position or statement and consolidate received comments with the
aim of achieving a consensus document." </span></font></div><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"> </font><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US">The two individuals who volunteered as drafters are:</span></font></div><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"> </font><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US">- Luca Belli, DCNN Co-Chair and Researcher at the Center for Technology & Society, FGV Rio de Janeiro </span></font></div><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"> </font><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US">- Michał Woźniak, Warsaw Hackerspace and Polish Linux Users Group</span></font></div><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"> </font><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US"><br> <b style="">CALENDAR</b><br> Comments to this initial DRAFT should be sent by <b style="">10 May 2015</b>. </span></font><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-GB">After
this deadline, the drafters will consolidate the comments and provide
an updated draft that will be shared for a second round of comments.</span></font><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US"></span></font></div><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"> </font><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US">According
to DCNN Rules of procedure, "DCNN members will be provided with 14
calendar days to comment, followed by a revised draft, and 10 calendar
days to comment the revised draft." To foster the inclusion of widest
number of comments from the IGF community at-large, all individuals will
be allowed</span></font><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-GB"> to comment the Draft statements using <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BEqqs7DXEpSnuK5kBOXIXoJKEgdlh-ExZyYQ92CJ7eI/edit" target="_blank">this google doc</a> and <a href="https://netneutralitystatements.etherpad.mozilla.org/1" target="_blank">this Pad</a>.</span></font><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US"></span></font></div><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"> </font><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US"> </span></font></div><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"> </font><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-US">Y</span></font><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-GB">ou are also free to share your inputs and critiques writing to the DCNN mailing-list </span></font><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black;"><a href="https://email07.europe.secureserver.net/webmail.php?folder=INBOX&firstMessage=1" target="_blank"><span style="" lang="EN-US">nncoalition@mailman.edri.org</span></a></span></font><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;color:black;"> </span></font><font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="color:black;" lang="EN-US">to which you can subscribe <a href="http://mailman.edri.org/mailman/listinfo/nncoalition" target="_blank">following this link</a>. </span></font><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black;" lang="EN-US"></span></div> <font style="font-size:12pt;" face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;color:black;" lang="EN-GB"></span></font><font style="font-size:12pt;" face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="color:black;" lang="EN-US"></span></font><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#000;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-size:12pt;" face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3"> </font><div style=""><br>Thanks in advance for your comments and, please, do not hesitate to share this email.<br>Best regards, <br>Luca</div></span></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a title="Luca Belli" href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/luca-belli/24/20/1a4" mce_href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/luca-belli/24/20/1a4" target="_blank">Luca Belli</a>, PhD</div><div><span style="font-size: 8pt;" mce_style="font-size: 8pt;">Researcher, <a title="Center for Technology & Society, FGV Rio de Janeiro" href="http://direitorio.fgv.br/cts" mce_href="http://direitorio.fgv.br/cts" target="_blank">Center for Technology & Society, FGV Rio de Janeiro</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 8pt;" mce_style="font-size: 8pt;">Founder and Co-chair, <a title="Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality" href="http://networkneutrality.info/about.html" mce_href="http://networkneutrality.info/about.html" target="_blank">IGF Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 8pt;" mce_style="font-size: 8pt;">Co-founder and Co-chair, <a title="IGF Dynamic Coalition on Platform Responsibility" href="http://platformresponsibility.info/" mce_href="http://platformresponsibility.info/" target="_blank">IGF Dynamic Coalition on Platform Responsibility</a><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 8pt;" mce_style="font-size: 8pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 8pt;" mce_style="font-size: 8pt;"><a title="Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality" href="http://networkneutrality.info/about.html" mce_href="http://networkneutrality.info/about.html" target="_blank"><br></a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 8pt;" mce_style="font-size: 8pt;"> </span></div></span></body></html>