[Chapter-delegates] What are the characteristics of the Internet to be preserved ?

[Sivasubramanian Muthusamy]

Hello All,

If a venerable veteran of Internet is invited to address a group of
sophomore students on their first day at the Internet Policy and Governance
class, what would he list as the essential characteristics of the Internet ?
*
Access? Affordable Access ? Access without barriers ? Access without
discrimination of any kind ?  ( What is Internet for All ? )

User-Centricity ?  ( what is that ? )

Neutral ? What kind of neutrality ?  Neutral of technical standards ?
Neutral of political, religious and social ideologies ?

freedome ?  of speech ? freedom from controls ?

Unity (or) a single internetwork ?

Openness - Open Technical Standards ? Open to commerce free of barriers ?
Open to changes ?*

What are the characteristics of the Internet that can be listed together as
features of the Internet that needs to be preserved ?



-- Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
ISOC India Chennai
http://isocmadras.blogspot.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/sivasubramanianmuthusamy
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