NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
[ NNSquad ] Tomorrow at ISOC-NY: Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG)
(Let's make sure ISOC gets a solid showing in New York calling for
confronting net neutrality in real terms, recognizing among other
things what it means when our Internet becomes the IncumbentNet. It's
critical that we communicate to ISOC and IETF that they must be
explicit about the impact of "Quality of Service" proposals on the
nature of the Internet as a flexible, general purpose platform for end
user innovation that is inherently "net neutral". Net neutrality also
has a critical relationship to the process of participatory consensus
standards making as such. -- Seth)
ISOC-NY Welcomes Sally Shipman Wentworth this Monday:
> http://www.isoc-ny.org/?p=1335
Sally is representing the Internet Society in planning for a Broadband
Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG) so we are sure to have
plenty to talk about. We intend to webcast this meeting live so that
other North American Chapters can participate.
* What: ISOC-NY Member meeting
* When: Mon Jun 14 2010 7.00pm-9pm
* Where: Room 412, Warren Weaver Hall,
251 Mercer Street NYC (SW corner of West 4th)
* Who: All are welcome. Come along for a chat!
* Webcast: http://livestream.com/isocny
* Note: Use the entrance on the west side since
construction blocks the Mercer Street entrance.
Must bring ID.
Other links:
ISOC, Google, Verizon and the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory
Group:
> http://www.isoc-ny.org/?p=1602
> http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/06/broadband-internet-technical-advisory.html
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/25258470/Google-and-Verizon-Joint-Submission-on-the-Open-Internet
Dynamic Platform Standards Project:
> http://www.dpsproject.com
"Under the present circumstances, the system of developing
specifications, which involves the writing and review of formal
documents known as RFCs, which has held since the beginning of the
Internet, would be tossed out by a few large providers and equipment
manufacturers and replaced by corporate fiat. The loss of an open,
consistent, and predictable platform would also crimp innovation at
higher levels."
My comments in this connection:
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/25267644/Seth-Johnson-Comments-on-Preserving-the-Open-Internet