[governance] The Bled Declaration - a new internet, or a centrally

[Ralf Bendrath]

Robert Guerra schrieb:
> A colleague has just mentioned let me know about the EU -  Bled 
> Declaration. At first glance, it sounds like re-inventing the Internet 
> into a centrally controlled network.

To me, it sounds very generic and empty. You can't really tell what 
they're up to from this declaration, except for getting more funding from 
the EU.

But if you look closer, there are of course scary attempts to re-invent 
the internet going on everywhere, ranging from identification 
infrastructures which would make anonymous surfing real hard, to protocols 
which distribute bandwidth based on the users' past behaviour, or the 
music industry trying to establish a mandatory traffic monitoring scheme 
on the ISPs' side to block copyrighted content.

A good start on this trend is Jonathan Zittrain's latest book "The Future 
of the Internet and how to stop it", online full text here: 
<http://yupnet.org/zittrain/>

By the way: There are versions of the declaration that are more 
accessible, e.g. here: <http://www.isoc.org.pl/200803/bled>.

Best, Ralf
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