[governance] Themes for the coming IGFs

[Milton L Mueller]

Ian:
I agree that the term Net Neutrality has become unfortunately confused
with the issue of bandwidth management. The IGP paper on NN issued last
year tried to separate the content access issues from the traffic
shaping issues, with some success. I don't see any way to avoid the term
NN, however. I think we need to reclaim the term and set it right.
Anyway, I appreciate your perspective on this and think its worth
discussing. --MM

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Peter [mailto:ian.peter at ianpeter.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 8:33 PM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; 'Ralf Bendrath'
> Subject: RE: [governance] Themes for the coming IGFs
> 
> 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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