[governance] Proposed workshop text on global net neutrality

[David Allen]

On Apr 10, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Roland Perry wrote:

> 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

Following that logic:  It becomes even more important - for  
international receipt of material originated elsewhere - that  
_national_ NN regimes are 'in the public interest.'

David
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