[governance] How can civil society help the Internet to assist

[Karl Auerbach]

George Sadowsky wrote:

> Below is the combined list of a set of issues ...

There are a lot of good ideas in your list.

There's at least one more that I have suggested previously (and received 
positive response from this list):

  - The creation of some sort of clearinghouse mechanism through which 
users (or their agents/ISPs) can negotiate fully end-to-end service 
level agreements so that users can obtain (perhaps not for free) a real 
assurance (not a guarantee) that for user-selected applications that 
they will be able to obtain network quality and availability sufficient 
to support those applications.

(The most obvious example are VoIP applications in which a user [or 
user's nation] makes an investment in VoIP and needs an assurance that 
it will be able to obtain external network connectivity that will 
support VoIP with relatively low delay/jitter, low loss connectivity.

		--karl--

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