[governance] Proposed workshop text on global net neutrality

[Roland Perry]

In message <BANLkTi=wGt=78Fk8GhZvmNyLgV_um9rzog at mail.gmail.com>, at 
00:56:40 on Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Ivar A. M. Hartmann 
<ivarhartmann at gmail.com> writes
>As I see it, discussing net neutrality includes making en effort to
>understand this "absence of infinite bandwidth", e.g. the allegation of
>scarcity. Is such scarcity an inescapable fact or the result of an elaborate
>planning by big Telcos?
>
>I daresay there's at least one aspect of organizing this workshop that
>everyone who manifested themselves so far seems to agree upon: we need a
>debater with profound knowledge of the American experience with net
>neutrality, especially of the legal aspects.

And also an expert in the cost of International bandwidth and transit, 
plus the cost of domestic infrastructure, so that the "lack of infinity" 
can be explained in terms of the provisioning cost. This fundamental 
'access' discussion is surely of wider benefit as well, because many 
developing countries whose (often state-owned) telcos may also be trying 
to reach to infinity and beyond.
-- 
Roland Perry
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