[governance] Cost of access - the meters ticking

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

George Sadowsky [04/06/08 20:34 -0400]:
> - Fair and equitable licensing regimes for ISPs consistent with general 
> business licensing processes at the national level
> - Regulation that encourages, or better yet, requires cost based pricing 
> of Internet access
> - A level playing field between incumbent telcos and international  
> Internet gateway providers on the one hand and independent ISPs on the 
> other hand

Members of a list that I help moderate - india-gii - do a lot of this.
http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/india-gii

> - Acceptability of tools (such as encryption tools) for protecting  
> confidentiality of communication

> - Net neutrality with respect to traffic type, e.g. VoIP

These too.. at least something is in the works about the indian
government's move to try get blackberry to turn over its keys or restrict
them to 40 bit or lower. (google news should turn up something)

> - Strong anti-spam legislation, effective implementation and vigorous  
> prosecution, including enabling national authorities through training  
> and facilities the ability to identify, prosecute and convict spammers

Ah, finally something after my own heart. I've done quite a lot of this
over the last 10 years - and done some technical and policy work on this
too at various levels (http://www.apcauce.org has some of it)

I had quite a lot of hopes for the stopspamalliance.org dynamic coalition
but it needs some restarting. A lot of work is going on in MAAWG
(www.maawg.org) right now - though that's an industry and technical
community group rather than a more broadly civil society group.

[maawg, cauce and isoc are associate members - and various international
and/or multistakeholder orgs - ITU, OECD and the multistakeholder LAP - are
members] - http://stopspamalliance.org/?page_id=28

	srs

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