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<p>I dare say it is a simplified version of the network neutrality
argument, at least the David Isenberg / Susan Crawford version of it. <br>
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That argument does get rather muddled with free speech ideas so that I have
seen advocates of it, at various times, complain about inspection of email
for spam filtering, DPI to automatically detect malware traffic etc. So..
The basic principles are sound and they are mom and apple pie, definitely
worth supporting, but there are more than enough devils lurking in the
details when we delve deeper into more nuanced statements <br>
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--srs (htc one x)<br>
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<p>On 17 May 2013 8:24:57 PM Andrea Glorioso <andrea@digitalpolicy.it>
wrote:</p>
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<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Norbert,<br><br></div>Thanks for sharing this. I
admit I'm puzzled by one statement in Konstantinos' blog post (I
put him in copy as I don't know if he's on this list), i.e.:<br><div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 17,
2013 at 3:50 PM, Norbert Bollow <span dir="ltr"><<a
href="mailto:nb@bollow.ch" target="_blank">nb@bollow.ch</a>></span>
wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote"
style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
>From the blog of Konstantinos Komaitis, Policy Advisor of ISOC:<br>
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...Internet technology and platforms are based on some ethical<br>
considerations: the fact that everyone should have access to the<br>
Internet, the fact that the Internet does not distinguish who<br>
participates in its social construction and technological evolution<br>
(equality of participation), the principle that there should not be<br>
any discrimination in relation to the services available to users<br>
(the end-to-end principle)<br
clear="all"></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not entirely clear how
one goes from the end-to-end principle (at least as described in J.H.
Saltzer, D.P. Reed and D.D. Clark, "End-to-end arguments in system
design", <a
href="http://web.mit.edu/saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoend.pdf">http://web.mit.edu/saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoend.pdf</a>,
to the statement that "there should not be any discrimination in
relation to the services available to users".<br>
<br>Perhaps Konstantinos or others would care to comment /
elaborate?<br><br>Ciao,<br><br></div><div>Andrea<br></div></div><br>--<br>I
speak only for myself. Sometimes I do not even agree with myself. Keep it
in mind.<br>
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