This is a time-stamped Youtube link to Scott McColloughs hugely clueful comments to the Net Neutrality Main Session at the Internet Governance Forum this week. Text of his comments: Statement for IGF Net Neutrality Main Session I thank our hosts for allowing me to present i2Coalitions position explaining that we got the open Internet based on open access. I offer a few comments on competition, appropriate network management, consumer choice, free expression, and meaningful transparency – but I will do so by praising the neutrality that arises naturally in the inTERnet based on this policy environment, rather than focusing only on policy for individual inTRAnets. Under open access, you can lease bandwidth or access a conduit on reasonable terms and offer your own kind of connectivity to your own subscribers. If the infrastructure is open lots of providers will offer their own individual intRAnets, and there is no predicting what they and their end users will come up with at the edge. Therefore the middle must handle anything and everything, which means it must be effectively neutral, transmitting packets without regard to application. Open access enhances and preserves neutrality in the intERnet, in the network of networks. The same point applies to how one approaches things like network management, fast lanes and QOS. Preserving net neutrality in the IntERnet is an entirely different matter from how we address these concerns inside intRAnets. The intERrnet is about general purpose interoperability using a bottoms-up, handle-everything design. This is the essence of net neutrality in its original form. I commend you for bringing the network of networks and open access into the net neutrality discussion, and look forward to international community results that take this into account. Open access means consumers can demand open, neutral Internet, and independent providers can supply it. It favors ISPs that protect privacy and have neutral policies, while those that interfere with free speech or that perform or allow surveillance will be punished by the market. But open access goes beyond consumer choice. It assures that the network empowers end users to act as producers, using their connections creatively or even becoming independent providers themselves. It thereby assures diversity and inclusiveness. Meaningful transparency is when end users receive full information about the product, including network management and privacy policies. Users get information disclosing whether they are getting the capacity they purchased and advising what information is being collected about them, how it is being used and shared and for what purposes.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 12:54:25 +0000
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