[governance] Re: caucus contribution -> possible replacement terms for NN?

[Norbert Bollow]

Am Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:01:26 +0100
schrieb Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>:

> Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:
> 
> > On 13 Feb 2013, at 14:20, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> > 
> > > Would the following be acceptable as a replacement?
> > > 
> > > “How to maintain the principle (sometimes referred to as ‘net
> > > neutrality’) that the price which an ISPs charges their customer
> > > for exchanging data packets via the Internet shall not depend on
> > > the content of the data packets, nor on who specifically is the
> > > remote party? What shall be the mechanisms and institutions
> > > involved in this process?”
> > 
> > 
> > It is close, though I think it needs some wordsmithing.  A
> > suggestion:
> > 
> > “
> > How to maintain the principle 
> > 
> > (referred to by some as ‘net neutrality’) 
> > 
> > that the price which an ISPs charges their customer for
> > exchanging data packets via the Internet shall not depend on the
> > content of the data packets, nor shall it depend on source or
> > destination party?
> > 
> > How shall the  key architectural principle of best effort service
> > for all user traffic in the global Internet be preserved?
> > ”
> 
> Hmm a customer who exchanges packets will almost invariably pay less

Sorry, that should read "... a customer who exchanges MANY packets..."

> per packet than one who exchanges only a few, and I don't think that
> that should be considered a violation of the principle in the first
> of the questions.
> 
> So how about the following? (the only change is to replace "source or
> destination party" with "the party with whom the packets are
> exchanged") 
> 
> “
> How to maintain the principle 
> 
> (referred to by some as ‘net neutrality’) 
>  
> that the price which an ISPs charges their customer for
> exchanging data packets via the Internet shall not depend on the
> content of the data packets, nor shall it depend on the party with
> whom the packets are exchanged?
> 
> How shall the key architectural principle of best effort service for
> all user traffic in the global Internet be preserved?
> ”
> 
> Greetings,
> Norbert


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