[governance] Net neutrality & IG
Danny Butt
db at dannybutt.net
Mon Apr 3 20:28:33 EDT 2006
>> Is "net neutrality" a global issue?
Good question Bret
It is a "global issue", but from my POV, like many of the issues most
loudly raised in the US (e.g. FoE), the term frames in a way that
takes a simplistic or formalist view of a situation which is much
more complex in real life. If we think of the decline of neutrality
(wide-spread de-peering, walled gardens, DRM) as being co-extensive
with the linguistic and socio-economic diversification of Internet
use, then the "good old days of neutrality" weren't really as neutral
as we might hope. Or at least we might need to do some serious
investigations on the limits of the scope of the internet at that
time that allowed neutrality to seem a viable principle.
More to the point re: IGF, the economic drivers for retaining control
of the customer's content experience (and not providing a free ride
for competitors) are strong, and the potential policy remedies seem
weak and dispersed, or at least more interventionist than the neo-
classical ideology of US internet community would care for. I see it
as more of a "worthy utopian principle", like transparency, than an
"issue".
Regards,
Danny
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On 04/04/2006, at 3:29 AM, Bret Fausett wrote:
> When I think about "net neutrality" I think about a bundle of U.S.-
> centric
> issues regarding the way ISPs service the last mile connection to the
> Internet. Perhaps this is just my view as a U.S. citizen. Is "net
> neutrality" a global issue?
>
> Bret
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