[governance] Ethical principles on which the Internet is based

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

I dare say it is a simplified version of the network neutrality argument, 
at least the David Isenberg / Susan Crawford version of it.

That argument does get rather muddled with free speech ideas so that I have 
seen advocates of it, at various times, complain about inspection of email 
for spam filtering, DPI to automatically detect malware traffic etc. So.. 
The basic principles are sound and they are mom and apple pie, definitely 
worth supporting, but there are more than enough devils lurking in the 
details when we delve deeper into more nuanced statements

--srs (htc one x)



On 17 May 2013 8:24:57 PM Andrea Glorioso <andrea at digitalpolicy.it> wrote:
> Dear Norbert,
>
> Thanks for sharing this. I admit I'm puzzled by one statement in
> Konstantinos' blog post (I put him in copy as I don't know if he's on this
> list), i.e.:
>
>
> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
>
> > From the blog of Konstantinos Komaitis, Policy Advisor of ISOC:
> >
> >    ...Internet technology and platforms are based on some ethical
> >    considerations: the fact that everyone should have access to the
> >    Internet, the fact that the Internet does not distinguish who
> >    participates in its social construction and technological evolution
> >    (equality of participation), the principle that there should not be
> >    any discrimination in relation to the services available to users
> >    (the end-to-end principle)
> >
>
> I'm not entirely clear how one goes from the end-to-end principle (at least
> as described in J.H. Saltzer, D.P. Reed and D.D. Clark, "End-to-end
> arguments in system design",
> http://web.mit.edu/saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoend.pdf, to the
> statement that "there should not be any discrimination in relation to the
> services available to users".
>
> Perhaps Konstantinos or others would care to comment / elaborate?
>
> Ciao,
>
> Andrea
>
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