[governance] Draft statement on Nairobi meeting programme

[Roland Perry]

In message <4D3AC9EF.3030200 at itforchange.net>, at 17:43:35 on Sat, 22 
Jan 2011, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> writes
>"If your network delivers content mainly to mobile users, it makes
>sense to try to gather some of the necessary extra revenue at the
>inbound edge (and leave the publisher to offset that by the income
>generation in his own business plan), rather than handing out an
>indefinite "free lunch". "
>
>Pay-for-priority distorts the very nature of the Internet, and over
>time the Internet will just not look the same. (Charging different fees
>for download volumes is a very different thing. )

The only cases where "priority" in real time matters is streaming 
content such as VoIP and video. The latter is mainly a "download volume" 
issue, but there are some issues with VoIP where telcos and governments 
sometimes see it as an abstraction of revenue. To that extent I agree 
that an Internet without VoIP would be different.

>It changes the level playing field nature of this new and revolutionary 
>communication paradigm of the Internet. It thus impacts freedom of 
>expression, economic competitiveness for new players, and egalitarian 
>possibilities that Internet offer.

But only for the one application (VoIP) which competes head-on with the 
carriers. There isn't another (unless you count IM vs SMS, and I don't 
see much liklihood of mobile networks throttling IM to force you to use 
SMS instead).

>A simple cost-profit and economic feasibility
>framework is not the best way to understand the implications of the NN
>issue, as it is not for media and other constructions of the public
>sphere, and as it not for many other social and cultural issues. Happy
>to discuss this issue further - quite close to my heart.

Also very happy to discuss which applications, other than video 
streaming and VoIP, you think might be affected by lack of neutrality.

And can I assume from your opening remarks that you think it's OK to 
charge <someone> for the extra burden of streaming video?

-- 
Roland Perry
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