[Chapter-delegates] Close Door meeting to decide the future of Open Internet?

[Joly MacFie]

The ITI is a large and powerful lobbying organization that includes most of
the 'heavy hitters' - see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Technology_Industry_Council

The fact that the Industry, if they can find common ground, has the money
and influence to sway legislation is undeniable.

They are being driven to work out compromises within the industry not so
much by net neutrality concerns themselves, but the fear of ham-fisted
legislation - now that the courts have effectively taken the FCC out of the
picture, at least temporarily. As Susan Crawford has pointed out, the
public, beyond efforts like OneWebDay etc, doesn't have much of a voice.

There is another wider intitiative - in which ISOC is involved - Broadband
Internet Technical Advisory
Group<http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/initial-plans-for-broadband-internet-technical-advisory-group-announced-95950709.html>
 (BITAG) which, AFAIK is tasked with getting down to the actual nitty gritty
of network management practices.

As for the general tone of the BBC article it does IMO serve to further the
general misunderstanding of what 'differentiated services' are -  there are
already plenty of them, such as VOIP offerings in triple play packages.
While it is certainly desirable &  legislatable that ISPs should not mess
with competing services that run across the Internet I don't think anyone
seriously wants to condemn ALL IP traffic to do so, or forbid user choice of
such services.

I believe the Internet Society could/should do more to establish its Open
Internetworking and Usercentric models as widely understood standards as to
what the Internet is. As bandwidth and capacity increase, and new
applications that tie in to new devices such as set-top boxes proliferate,
these differentiated services may well end up going down the same drain as
earlier walled gardens such as AOL and Compuserve.

I just wonder how long it will be before cable companies start offering a
100% Internet fat pipe as an alternative to the triple play. At present
there aren't the services to justify it but it seems there soon will be.

The Google Verizon seven principles <http://www.isoc-ny.org/p2/?p=1112>,
while punting on mobile, establish a pretty fair baseline for wireline
providers.

j
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 3:53 AM, Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The following is a BBC News article as reported in the NetNeutrality list.
>  Is this Information Technology Industry Council? meeting any significant
> as reported?
>
>
> More "secret" corporate negotiations about the Internet's future
>
> http://bit.ly/ayrGAN  (BBC)
>
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