[governance] Themes for the coming IGFs

[Ian Peter]

Hi Ralf,

To be very blunt about this - my personal opinion is that network neutrality
is an unfortunate term which has distorted what was originally concerns
about equitable access to content into endless debates about traffic shaping
and carrier profitability. I'm all for dropping the term.



Ian Peter
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralf Bendrath [mailto:bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de]
> Sent: 12 December 2008 12:09
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Subject: Re: [governance] Themes for the coming IGFs
> 
> Ian Peter schrieb:
> > I like the concept of broadening access to include, for instance
> >
> > * equitable access to carriage for content providers (often discussed
> > within the net neutrality debate)
> > * access to content without interference (the censorship debate)
> > * access to devices for applications (the open systems debate, the end
> > to end debate)
> 
> > Add these to physical access and you have an interesting set of issues
> > to look at.
> 
> You want to discuss Network Neutrality, without saying it? ;-)
> 
> I'm all for it, but the strategic implications of opening this can of
> worms in Egypt at a UN conference need thorough discussion, I am afraid.
> 
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