[governance] Proposed workshop text on global net neutrality

[David Allen]

On Apr 10, 2011, at 5:23 PM, McTim wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 7:24 PM, parminder  
> <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>> Sorry, i reposted the earlier unedited text. the new edited text is  
>> below
>>
>> Network Neutrality has, over the last year, in many countries,  
>> become an
>> urgent issue for Internet governance. The US Federal Communications
>> Commission promulgated NN guidelines; to do so, the FCC, a public  
>> policy
>> entity, started from the terms of an agreement between two  
>> corporate, and so
>> private, players.
>
>
> not so IIRC.  Making such an assertion is misleading at best.

Provenance is never precise, is it.  But many (quite well) informed  
folks, wrt the US comms policy process, were satisfied that the  
private Google-Verizon deal set the terms for what emerged finally at  
the FCC.  A little Googling is illustrative.

David

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