[governance] Proposed workshop text on global net neutrality

[Roland Perry]

In message <4DA1C7A1.9060106 at itforchange.net>, at 20:37:13 on Sun, 10 
Apr 2011, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> writes

>In the background, since Internet is essentially a global network and 
>finally there must be common global norms on whether content can be 
>prioritised across global digital highways including across global 
>interconnection points) on payments by the content providers or not.

Once you go international on this, it's necessary to look at the way 
peering and transit agreements work. "Follow the money".

The revenue models of the telephone system work because there's a myriad 
of settlement-based interconnects, which just don't exist for the 
Internet. Especially when you can't easily tell whose traffic it is that 
you are shifting. Hence perhaps efforts by ITU (restarted recently) to 
look at using BGP to try to unpick some of this.

In the current Internet model it's simply not possible for a content 
provider in UK to pay a consumer-eyeballs network in Pakistan to deliver 
its content preferentially (which includes paying not to restrict it).

And when the "content provider" is the individual Internet citizen, 
wanting his blog to be transmitted everywhere, or wanting the files he's 
sharing by P2P to be received unhindered anywhere in the world, there's 
simply nothing approaching a mechanism for him to pay for that.

-- 
Roland Perry
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