[governance] Call for Papers - DC Net Neutrality Report

[Luca Belli]

Dear all (apologies for cross-posting), 


Due to numerous deadline-extension requests, the deadline
for contributions to the 2014 Report of the Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality
has been extended to 10 July 2014.


Below the details of the Call for Papers,
 Best, 


Luca






Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality







Call for Papers

 

Network
Neutrality:

Regulatory
Tendencies, Peering Agreements

&
Infrastructure Enhancement

 

 

 

Background:

 

The
network neutrality debate is gaining great political momentum. Several
countries have already implemented network neutrality laws, while many others
are currently elaborating or scrutinising the opportunity to elaborate network
neutrality legislation. Yet, we are witnessing today the emergence of a variety
of divergent (and somewhat incompatible) approaches towards whether or not
network neutrality is enshrined in law.

 

In
the U.S., the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeal invalidated the U.S. FCC Open
Internet Order. On the other hand, the Brazilian National Congress has recently
adopted the Marco Civil an Internet Bill of Rights containing network
neutrality provisions, while at the European level net-neutrality is going to
be enshrined into legislation but the outcome of this latter process seem
currently difficult to predict.

 

While
the network neutrality debate continues, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) may
enter into opaque interconnection-arrangements (peering agreements) that might
include discriminatory provisions. In the U.S., for instance, Content and
Applications Providers (CAPs) have been experimenting new typology of peering
agreements that require CAPs to pay ISPs for a direct connection to their
consumers (so called “sender-pays” model).

 

The
aforementioned issues seem difficult to solve without a serious reflection
aimed at allowing the elaboration of evidence-based strategies. The 2014 Report
of the Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality aims at fostering such a
reflection in order to provide a valuable contribution to the crucial debate
pertaining to the balance between network-neutrality implementation and
infrastructure enhancement.

 

Call:

 

The
Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality, established under the auspices of the
United Nations Internet Governance Forum, invites researchers and practitioners
to submit a position paper pertaining to the issue of net neutrality and
regulatory tendencies.

 

Suggested
topics include analyses of, inter alia:

 

·        
DC Circuit Court of
Appeal Decision on the FCC Open Internet Order

·        
European Union’s
draft, Connected Continent Regulation, as amended by the European  Parliament

·        
Brazilian Marco Civil

·        
Venezuela’s Internet
Crackdown

·        
Turkey’s
Social-Network Blocking

·        
Peering Agreements

·        
Comcast-Netflix Deal

·        
National/Regional/Local
Network Enhancement Policies

·       Availability and
implementation of remedies by regulatory authorities, when access providers
have implemented anti-competitive non-neutral policies.



Submission Guidelines:

 

Research
papers, including analytical and theoretical papers, position papers, or case
studies will be considered for inclusion in the report, even if they have been
previously published. The length of the submissions should be between 2500 and
5000 words. To facilitate the reviewing process, papers should not include
author names or other information that would help identify the authors.

 

All
paper shall be in English language, and formatted according to the HWPiL style template.

 

Submissions
are due on 10th July, 2014. They
should include the following elements:

·     
Title

·     
Short abstract (250
words)

·     
Original contribution

·     
Author’s name,
affiliation and short bibliographical note (in the body of the email).

 

Submissions
should be sent to contact at networkneutrality.info 

Authors
will be notified within approximately two weeks from the deadline as to the
status of their contributions.

 

All
submitted papers will be subject to a rigorous double-blind peer review, whereby
each paper will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Everyone who submitted a
paper will be asked to peer review another submission, which will be judged
according to the novelty of the contribution, the theoretical soundness and the
quality of presentation.

 

Authors
will be given the opportunity to improve their contributions based on peer comments.
Selected papers will be published into the Dynamic Coalition report, which will
be published under Open Access conditions. All authors must ensure that their
contribution can be licensed under one of the Creative Commons licenses of
their choice.

 

Some
of the authors will also be invited (at their own expenses) to present their
work at the first DC meeting to be held at the United Nation Internet Governance
Forum, from 2 to

5
September 2014, in Istanbul (Turkey).

 

 



Luca Belli

 		 	   		   		 	   		   		 	   		  
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