[governance] Request for Comments - Statements on Net Neutrality

[Luca Belli]

Dear all, (apologies for crossposting)
 
 This is a Request for Comments with regard to the development of two Policy Statements on Net Neutrality promoted by members of the IGF Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality (DCNN) and the Global Coalition on Net Neutrality (GNN), to be discussed within the IGF community at-large.
SUBJECT

The development of the DRAFT Net Neutrality Policy Statements aims at
promoting the endorsement of an agreed position on net neutrality by the IGF
community, based on the Model
Framework on Network Neutrality developed by the DCNN.
 

The development
of these Policy Statements is consistent with the Final
Chair's Summary of the IGF 2014, according to which "The ninth IGF
concluded with looking at the role of the IGF in taking the network neutrality
discussion forward. [...] The Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality will
continue the discussions leading up to the 2015 meeting, but the view was also
held that there was a need to develop a process that allowed the entire IGF
community to weigh in and validate the findings of the Dynamic Coalition."


The DCNN Model
Framework (MF) was presented at the 8th IGF in Bali and included
in a Report on "Protecting
Human Rights through Network Neutrality" delivered to the Council of Europe
Steering Committee on Media and Information Society to be used as a working
document for the elaboration of a Draft Recommendation on Net Neutrality. To date, the MF has been conveyed to several Parliamentary assemblies (EU
Parliament, Argentinian Senate and South Korean Parliament) by DCNN members.
However, although it has already played an inspirational role, the model has
never been officially validated by the IGF community at-large, as pointed out by the Chairs Summary. This lack of
validation is primarily due to the lack of an official validation process for
dynamic coalitions' outcomes within the IGF structure. The development of the
Policy Statements aims therefore at filling this gap through a self-organised
and bottom-up process, which is the very essence of the IGF.



DRAFT POLICY STATEMENTS

During the RightsCon joint meeting of the DCNN
and the GNN, consensus emerged as regards the elaboration of one or more DRAFT
Net Neutrality Policy Statement(s) to be presented to the IGF MAG and discussed
- and hopefully endorsed - by the IGF community at-large. 



The initial
DRAFT policy statements are in attachment. The first policy statement (I. On
Network Neutrality) aims at providing a concise and "human readable" version of
the MF, while the second statement (II. On Specialised Services) aims at
expanding the MF definition and provisions on specialised services, adding some
further elements. 

The statements
also include a "restyling" of
the MF (APPENDIX Model Framework v.2.0). The original provisions of the MF have
been reorganised within this restyled version, in order to identify with more
clarity the key issues that should be evoked in the policy statements. The only modification to the MF content concerns the expansion of the specialised service provisions, in order include the additional elements that are proposed in Statement II.




DRAFTERS 

According to DC NN Rules
of Procedure, two drafters have been designated in order to "manage the
elaboration of the position or statement and consolidate received comments with
the aim of achieving a consensus document." 

The two
individuals who volunteered as drafters are:

- Luca Belli,
DCNN Co-Chair and Researcher at the Center for Technology & Society, FGV Rio de Janeiro 

- Michał
Woźniak, Warsaw Hackerspace and Polish Linux Users Group



CALENDAR

Comments to this initial DRAFT should be sent by 10 May 2015. After this deadline, the drafters will consolidate the comments and
provide an updated draft that will be shared for a second round of comments.

According to
DCNN Rules of procedure, "DCNN members will be provided with 14 calendar days
to comment, followed by a revised draft, and 10 calendar days to comment the
revised draft." To foster the inclusion of widest number of comments from the IGF community at-large, all
individuals will be allowed to comment the Draft statements using this
google doc and this Pad.

 

You are also free to share your inputs and critiques
writing to the DCNN mailing-list nncoalition at mailman.edri.org to which you
can subscribe following
this link. 

 
Thanks in advance for your comments and, please, do not hesitate to share this email.
Best regards, 
Luca


Luca Belli, PhDResearcher, Center for Technology & Society, FGV Rio de JaneiroFounder and Co-chair, IGF Dynamic Coalition on Network NeutralityCo-founder and Co-chair, IGF Dynamic Coalition on Platform Responsibility




 		 	   		  
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