[governance] The Gilder Friday Letter #Net Neutrality

[McTim]

Hi,


On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 11:27 PM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>wrote:

>
> On Saturday 14 September 2013 08:38 PM, Adam Peake wrote:
>
>> In the Verizon case in the U.S. I've heard that the judges are leaning
>> towards allowing telecom and cable broadband providers to charge OTT
>> players for prioritized network services, but will leave some other parts
>> of the FCC's Open Internet rules intact.  Meanwhile in Europe, Commission
>> vice president Neelie Kroes last week released proposals for major telecom
>> reform aiming to create a single telecom market which include network
>> neutrality provisions that would allow telcos to do much the same: they'd
>> be able to differentiate their offers perhaps by speed and compete on
>> enhanced quality of service.  Thou Kroes is also proposing to prevent
>> throttling of traffic and blocking of some apps (Skype, WhatsApp etc etc).
>>   Press release for the EC proposals <http://europa.eu/rapid/press-**
>> release_IP-13-828_en.htm<http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-828_en.htm>>,
>> good summary <http://europa.eu/rapid/press-**release_MEMO-13-779_en.htm<http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-13-779_en.htm>
>> >
>>   If both the U.S. and Europe were to go this way, and not certain in
>> either case, then guess it might become a bit of a norm for other country's
>> to allow the same.
>>
>
>
> Which is a huge problem



agreed.


> of global (non) governance of the Internet


but not of this


- that the mighty are able to dictate the architectural framework of the
> Internet


It's not the architecture that is being dictated.


> by sheer market/economic, and, also often, political dominance. Civil
> society has not been able to offer any response


If you think this, you haven't been paying any attention.  See
http://publicknowledge.org/blog/verizon-v-fcc-amicus-brief-roundup for
examples.


-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route
indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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