<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>I found it interesting that "search neutral" Google was this up on the issue:</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=Public+Knowledge+support+of+FCC&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&aql=&aqi=&oq=">http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=Public+Knowledge+support+of+FCC&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&aql=&aqi=&oq=</A><BR><BR>--- On <B>Thu, 1/21/10, Katitza Rodriguez <I><katitza@datos-personales.org></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: Katitza Rodriguez <katitza@datos-personales.org><BR>Subject: Re: [governance] Net Neutrality<BR>To: governance@lists.cpsr.org, "Parminder" <parminder@itforchange.net><BR>Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Kleinw=E4chter@npogroups.org, "_Wolfgang=22?=" <wolfgang.kleinwaechter@medienkomm.uni-halle.de><BR>Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010, 1:07 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV id=yiv1345197315>Parminder:
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<DIV>You are right! </DIV>
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<DIV>(old news but pertinent to the discussion)</DIV>
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<DIV>EPIC has signed on to <A href="http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/2711" target=_blank rel=nofollow>a letter</A> from <A href="http://www.publicknowledge.org/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>Public Knowledge</A> to the Federal Communications Commission supporting the FCC's decision to begin public proceedings on preserving an open internet. EPIC joins many other public interest groups who have also expressed support for the FCC's initiative. The <A href="http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-293997A1.pdf" target=_blank rel=nofollow>FCC's proceedings</A> will focus on proposed rulemaking policies that would preserve open internet. EPIC favors the general principles of "network neutrality" and has called on the FCC to preserve privacy safeguards against measures that Internet Service Providers may use to limit access to the internet. For more information, see also <A href="http://epic.org/privacy/dpi/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>EPIC Deep
Packet Inspection</A></DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://epic.org/2009/10/public-knowledge-epic-other-pu.html" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://epic.org/2009/10/public-knowledge-epic-other-pu.html</A></DIV>
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<DIV>On Jan 21, 2010, at 7:24 AM, Parminder wrote:</DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Hi All<BR><BR>What is most interesting in the joint statement is this new concept of Technical Advisory Groups. Seeking technicalisation of areas which are legitimately for political governance is an old trick of the dominant interests, which we already have enough of trouble dealing with in IG arena. And now Google is joining in. <BR><BR>I also read dilution of Google's stand on NN, at least in terms of expectations of laying out NN principles and policies by the government and their strict enforcement. (though one would have to see Google's own separate submission on the subject.)<BR><BR>From the referred joint statement<BR><BR></FONT>
<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">With respect to traditional Internet access services, the parties agree that differential</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">treatment of Internet traffic by network operators may be either beneficial or harmful to users.</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Particular practices could be acceptable or unacceptable discrimination, depending on their effect</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">on competition and on users. While we do not necessarily agree on which side of the line</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">various practices may fall, we do agree that such practices should be evaluated on a case-by-case</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">basis.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><BR>Their is saying in Hindi - People who live in glass houses do not throw stones at other
people's house. Perhaps Google has started to realize the glassiness of its own house.<BR><BR>Parminder <BR><BR></FONT><BR>Kleinwächter, Wolfgang wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><PRE>FYI
Interesting Joint Statement Google & Verizon
<A class=moz-txt-link-freetext href="http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/comment/view?id=6015527661" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/comment/view?id=6015527661</A>
wolfgang
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