<span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Dear Rudi.</span><br><br style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">This is a milestone achievement for the </span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Netherlands fraternity</span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">. Internet users worldwide would benefit immensely if such a legislation was enacted globally by all countries. But as Alejandro Pisanty, of Mexico has argued, Mexico, and other stakeholders in other countries may have issues with such legislation. The correct methodology would be to engage a wide constituency of stakeholders so that arguments and concerns by the various groups are addressed and considered. Each country provides a unique experiences as well as differences in opinion and these depends on the understanding of the underlying issues by the legislators as well and those who lead the process.</span><br style="font-family:georgia,serif">
<br style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">In this case, the Netherlands case provides a case study worth emulating and we would be very interested to learn how the whole process evolved.</span><br>
<br style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Charles Oloo</span><br style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">ISOC Kenya Chapter</span><br><br><br> <br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Rudi Vansnick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rudi.vansnick@isoc.be" target="_blank">rudi.vansnick@isoc.be</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px"><a href="http://e2ma.net/go/11036753017/208894755/234081773/1411202/goto:http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2012/05/09/netherlands-net-neutrality/" style="color:rgb(35,65,141)" target="_blank">Netherlands is First Country in Europe with Net Neutrality</a></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px"><a href="http://e2ma.net/go/11036753017/208894755/234081774/1411202/goto:http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2012/05/09/netherlands-net-neutrality/" style="color:rgb(35,65,141)" target="_blank"><br>
</a></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px">May 8th, 2012 is a day to celebrate in The Netherlands as it becomes the first country in Europe to protect its citizens by enshrining net neutrality into law. The Netherlands is also implementing privacy protections for users against wiretapping and disconnection by the Internet Service Providers (ISPs), which will no longer be able to interrupt traffic of users unless it is proven to be in the public interest. (Global Voices, 5-8)</span></div>
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