[governance] IGP Alert: "Net Neutrality as GlobalPrinciple for Internet Governance"

[Milton L Mueller]

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Lee, I am continually amazed by the stupidity of your public interventions. Let's agree to part ways vis a vis you and the IGP since you clearly have no interest in participating in a group effort. 

The final straw here is not just your disagreement about NN but your complete lack of any attempt to even inform, much less include, IGP in your Caribbean initiative. It's ok if you are more interested in promoting your own small puddle of influence in Jamaica but don't pretend to be part of IGP at the same time. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee McKnight [mailto:lmcknigh at syr.edu]
> Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 11:53 AM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; dan at musicunbound.com; narten at us.ibm.com
> Subject: Re: [governance] IGP Alert: "Net Neutrality as GlobalPrinciple
> for Internet Governance"
> 
> Thomas,
> 
> My point exactly, a 'principle' defined by exceptions and nuances in the
> eye of the beholder seems perfect only for theological debates on how
> many neutral angels can fit on the head of a pin.
> 
> So it is not really a 'nice principle,' it's a trap set by Google
> lobbyists all too many of you have fallen into. Again, nothing against
> Google, love that search engine and gmail etc, but their spin-doctors,
> are well, spin post-docs as I see how well they have spun many of you,
> including my own esteemed colleagues ; ).
> 
> I prefer "universal, open, equitable, and flexible access" to quote from
> the Caribbean Internet Governance Policy Framework Draft Version 0.1,
> October 2007, as a Global Principle.
> 
> Go to
> http://ctu.int/ctu/Projects/InternetGovernance/tabid/73/Default.aspx if
> you wish to review the doc or post comments, perhaps explaining to
> Caribbean governments why they really all would be better off talking of
> network neutrality, when what they mean is universal, open, equitable
> and flexible access as a shared policy principle for Internet
> governance.
> 
> Lee
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Prof. Lee W. McKnight
> School of Information Studies
> Syracuse University
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> >>> narten at us.ibm.com 11/09/07 9:08 AM >>>
> > I would only add to this that spam filters are best implemented with
> end
> > users being given maximum control over their settings.
> 
> Nice principle, but when ISPs regularly complain > 80% of the email
> they carry is spam, it costs an ISP $$ to process it and deliver it to
> the "edges", only to be filtered there.
> 
> Surely one can understand why they find it highly desirable to keep it
> from entering their network in the first place.
> 
> Thomas
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