NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
[ NNSquad ] Re: Expanding the struggle
John S. Quarterman > And in many countries net neutrality is (or has been until recently) > considered a U.S.-only problem. It's not. It's really about free > speech, free association, and free trade. And we've already seen that > what is or is not considered kosher differs even between U.S. and Canada. > > This is what Milton Mueller is getting at in his draft paper > for the UN Internet Governance Forum: > > http://riskman.typepad.com/peerflow/2007/11/normative-net-n.html Excellent contribution. This paper is in the spirit of what I eluded to in an earlier post that I made. The FCC as a rule-making body has a history of being more than happy to let some other non-governmental body set the standards and coordinate the activity. The FCC as a regulator and enforcer will then usually uphold those decisions. (Examples include use of the ampr.org on the AX.25 networks, see http://www.qsl.net/scdcc/tcpip.html for an example. See http://www.arrl.org/news/enforcement_logs/2003/0517.html for another example, where voluntary coordination by the non-government Northern Amateur Relay Council of California was upheld and enforced by the FCC). This is exactly how I believe the FCC should behave toward enforcement of ISP interference issues such as Comcast's RST abuse and Verizon's DNS redirection. --Robb Topolski