[governance] [lack of] Net Neutrality for Mobile Internet in different shapes and forms?

[JFC Morfin]

At 11:10 19/03/2011, Roland Perry wrote:
>If you want to watch a TV show at the same resolution as broadcast 
>(especially on a wide-screen TV) then it does require 1 Megabit or 
>more. That's quite an achievement, actually, because they use 4+ 
>megabits for standard broadcast quality.

And your eye has 40 slow channels to your brain. The margin left to 
better technology is huge. Read my definition back: it does call for 
innovation. Neutrality is first for everyone to have the best 
avaialble technology. RFC 3869 says (end of page 2):  "The principal 
thesis of this document is that if commercial funding is the main 
source of funding for future Internet research, the future of the 
Internet infrastructure could be in trouble.  In addition to issues 
about which projects are funded, the funding source can also affect 
the content of the research, for example, towards or against the 
development of open standards, or taking varying degrees of care 
about the effect of the developed protocols on the other traffic on 
the Internet."

The network neutrality is in trouble. But the solution is not in 
managing what commercial funding led to, but in demanding public 
funding to at last respond to the IAB. And in heping grassoroots 
research. Europe decided not to do so at the WSIS, and to drop the 
hopes of developping countries in Tunis, with Martin Boyle 
representing us and playing the US card. We must reform that. To 
reform that is easy enough: to acknowledge the three areas involved 
(operance, governance, adminance) and to disqualify the absentees as 
stakeholders. For example, the non-participation of the IETF to the 
WSIS is proprely scandalous: this is the real source of the 
netneutrality issue. But Brian Carpenter, the Chair at the time, 
wrote me the less IETF is involved, the better.

We have a chance now, which is to use the current architectural 
evolution, and the IUse tiny community emergence, to change this. But 
it will take time and apostoles.

Best
jfc

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