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<div>Network Neutrality has, over the last year, in many
countries, become an urgent issue for Internet governance. The
US Federal Communications Commission promulgated NN
guidelines; to do so, the FCC, a public policy entity, started
from the terms of an agreement between two corporate, and so
private, players. The EU has conducted a pulbic hearing on the
issue; the French telecom regulatory authority has proposed a
set of NN recommendations; Brazil is drafting a civil rights
framework for the Internet, of which NN is an important
element. Earlier, in 2009, Norway issued NN guidelines, now
broadly acclaimed.</div>
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<div>The Internet is a global network and finally there must be
common global norms: can content be prioritised across global
digital highways (including across global interconnection
points) based on purchase of that priority by content
providers? Interestingly, cross border network neutrality is a
subject being dealt by an experts committee of the Council of
Europe. If we do not start talking about global norms, taking
into consideration the interests and viewpoints of all
involved, we will eventually find ourselves forced into a
default regime of global traffic flows decided only by key
economic powers, who often are private actors. This is
undemocratic. It subjects the global public to the political
choices of a few, the most powerful. Even in the more powerful
nations, policy making in this area may prove hostage to the
interests of multinational digital corporations and so
potentially contravene the national public interest.</div>
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<div>It it therefore of considerable value, even for the more
powerful countries, to seek global norms on NN. The proposed
workshop will explore the emerging progressive regimes in
different countries, then explore the steps to a shared set of
global norms on NN.</div>
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On Sunday 10 April 2011 09:45 PM, parminder wrote:
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<font face="sans-serif">A kind soul helped undo some atrocities to
the English language committed in the text I posted :). Pl see
below<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Network Neutrality has been one
of the hottest Internet public policy issues in many
countries, over the last year; US's Federal Communications
Commission came out with NN guidelines that built over an
agreement between two principal corporate players in the
area, EU has bene conducting a pulbic hearing on the issue,
French telecom regulatory authority have come out with a set
of NN proposals and recommendations, Brazil a drafting a new
civil rights framework for the Internet of which NN is an
important issue. Earlier, in 2009, Norway came out with a
much acclaimed set of NN guidelines. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">In the background, since
Internet is essentially a global network and finally there
must be common global norms on whether content can be
prioritised across global digital highways including across
global interconnection points) on payments by the content
providers or not. Interesting, cross border network
neutrality is a subject being dealt with by an experts
committee on the Council of Europe. If we do not start
talking about global norms, taking into consideration the
interests and viewpoints of all involved, we will eventually
be faced by a default regime of global traffic flows which
will be whatever gets decided by the key economic powers.
This is undemocratic way of subjecting the global public to
the political choices of a few, most powerful. On the other
hand, it is also true that even in the more powerful
nations, policy making in this area may become hostage to
the interests of multinational digital corporations at the
cost of the national public interest. It it therefore of
considerable value even for the more powerful countries to
seek global norms on NN. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The proposed workshop will
explore the emerging progressive regimes in different
countries and explore the possibility of coming up with a
common set of global norms on NN. </p>
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On Sunday 10 April 2011 08:37 PM, parminder wrote:
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<font face="sans-serif">Below is a proposed text for a workshop
on </font>'A possible framework for global Net Neutrality'.
Thanks. parminder<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Network Neutrality has been one
of the hottest Internet public policy issues in many
countries, over the last year; US's Federal Communications
Commission came out with NN guidelines that built over an
agreement between two principal corporate players in the
area, EU has bene conducting a pulbic hearing on the issue,
French telecom regulatory authority have come out with a set
of NN proposals and recommendations, Brazil a drafting a new
civil rights framework for the Internet of which NN is an
important issue. Earlier, in 2009, Norway came out with a
much acclaimed set of NN guidelines. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">In the background, since
Internet is essentially a global network and finally there
must be common global norms on whether content can be
prioritised across global digital highways including across
global interconnection points) on payments by the content
providers or not. Interesting, cross border network
neutrality is a subject being dealt with by an experts
committee on the Council of Europe. If we do not start
talking about global norms, taking into consideration the
interests and viewpoints of all involved, we will eventually
be faced by a default regime of global traffic flows which
will be whatever gets decided by the key economic powers.
This is undemocratic way of subjecting the global public to
the political choices of a few, most powerful. On the other
hand, it is also true that even in the more powerful
nations, policy making in this area may become hostage to
the interests of multinational digital corporations at the
cost of the national public interest. It it therefore of
considerable value even for the more powerful countries to
seek global norms on NN. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The proposed workshop will
explore the emerging progressive regimes in different
countries and explore the possibility of coming up with a
common set of global norms on NN. </p>
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<font face="sans-serif">Similarly, I am happy to propose a
text for the 'global network neutrality' workshop and help
organize it along with any or all others who may be
interested. i can undertake to anchor the effort on IGC's
behalf. </font>parminder<br>
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On Saturday 09 April 2011 09:56 PM, Marilia Maciel wrote:
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cite="mid:BANLkTimsywOkty_ha-duEcCiKfXE0rm15g@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">"For the India/IGC workshop, I'm happy to
organise (or to co-organise with anyone else who wishes to
do so)."
<div>I would be happy to assist you, if you want some help.</div>
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<div>Marília<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 5:44 AM,
Jeremy Malcolm <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div>On 09/04/2011, at 11:23 AM, parminder
wrote:</div>
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#333333">'A
possible framework for global Net
Neutrality'<br>
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In addressing this issue we will be doing a
specific positive contribution to global
Internet policy regimes. <br>
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Important to note that Council of Europe is
working on the issue of global net
neutrality. <br>
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For the two suggested workshops on network
neutrality and human rights, before we could put
either of them forward as the IGC we would need:
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<div>(a) a volunteer to organise them (ie. pull the
speakers together, etc); and</div>
<div>(b) some descriptive text for the proposal to
the Secretariat/MAG.</div>
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<div>As for the Mapping workshop, we already have
the descriptive text, and Norbert has volunteered
to help organise (thank you Norbert!). Will
anyone else be co-organising with him (McTim,
Miguel)?</div>
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<div>For the India/IGC workshop, I'm happy to
organise (or to co-organise with anyone else who
wishes to do so).</div>
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