[governance] The Gilder Friday Letter #Net Neutrality

[Jean-Louis FULLSACK]

 Good one, Parminder ! a fully deserved + 1 The same smokescreen tactics are used by the WSIS Forum organizers, ITU first ! Whereas Africa was given priority for its still missing continental network during the WSIS, the 8 WSIS Fora never organized an official thematic session focused on this problematic objective. What's more, ITU launched on its own the "Connect Africa" Summit in 2007 and its "Global Broadband Commission" (with the symbolic support of UNESCO), splendidly ignoring the so much touted multistakeholderism ! And after 8 WSIS Fora, Africa is still waiting for its Panaftel that ITU and its memberstates promised for ... 1998. The "Connect Africa" Summit, ITU and African leaders governments all together, committed themselves to complete the continental network by 2012 ... But as the (French) joke goes, commitments only engage those who believe in them ! That's why in 2013 Africa and its friends are still waiting ... Best Jean-Louis Fullsack> Message du 15/09/13 05:29
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> 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 , good summary 
> > 
> > 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.
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> Which is a huge problem of global (non) governance of the Internet - 
> that the mighty are able to dictate the architectural framework of the 
> Internet by sheer market/economic, and, also often, political dominance. 
> Civil society has not been able to offer any response to this patently 
> anti democratic situation. Neither has the much touted multistakeholder 
> model any response to this situation.
> 
> A bit strange that even after 7 editions of the IGF, while Bali IGF will 
> be full of sessions on multistakeholderism, all these years we could not 
> get one main session on net neutrality (NN) - which to me is almost 
> 'the' paradigmatic public policy issue of IG. In fact, there were really 
> a lot of proposals to get a main session on NN this year but , at the 
> Paris MAG consultations, I had the feeling that these proposals were 
> actively discouraged if not sabotaged by the powers that be.... Perhaps 
> MAG members can help us understand why we could not get a main session 
> on NN, when all kinds of sessions with vague titles made the grade...
> 
> This gives grist to the propositions that the exclusive focus on 
> procedural issues at the IGF just helps build a smokescreen preventing 
> the needed global discussions on real public policy issues.
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> Very unfortunate that while , as per above Adam's email, the die seems 
> to have been cast in terms of a non NN Internet, all these years IGC has 
> still not being able to get over arguing on things like - the meaning of 
> NN is not clear.... I consider it as a major failure of IGC that we 
> could do nothing, much less provide leadership, on this all crucial IG 
> issue.....
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> parminder
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> > Adam
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