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On Saturday 14 August 2010 03:03 AM, SAMUELS,Carlton A wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal">Another view on the NN ‘wars”.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Carlton Samuels</p>
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For some unclear reasons the author of the article has chosen to
completely ignore the most discussed about issue in the verizon-google
deal - treating wireless networks in a manner different than wired
ones vis a vis net neutrality. <br>
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By the way, I am impressed the number of time the term 'public
internet' is being used now. It was almost two years ago in Hyderabad
IGF that IT for Change did a sign on campaign for 'protecting the
publicness of the Internet'. A couple of years earlier when a call was
made for submitting possible themes for the first IGF we had submitted
the theme of 'defining and fostering the publicness of the Internet'.<br>
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When the issues of managed services and a tiered interent are so
current, it is useful to look at possible definitions of what
constitutes a public Internet, or well what constitutes an Internet.
(Google has used the term non-Internet services for managed services).
Obviously, it is important to know what is Internet before we pursue
IG. <br>
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Is it possible to work on some of these issues in the IGC? <br>
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Parminder<br>
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