[governance] How can civil society help the Internet to

[George Sadowsky]

Definitely add to the list.  I think that it's more general and 
better state than my shorter reference to VoIP only.

At 10:24 AM -0700 6/5/08, Karl Auerbach wrote:
>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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