[Chapter-delegates] Net Neutrality and EU Parliament (February 27)

[Eduardo Diaz]

Alejandro:

Can you share with the rest of us your presentations - Erik and yours? Some
of our legislators in Puerto Rico are also looking at this issue.

-ed

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch <
apisan at unam.mx> wrote:

> Frederic,
>
> thanks for these updates. The news you mention from France are heartening
> - esp. given that in other matters much of the Internet community disagrees
> starkly with measures taken by the French government - and of course we
> have a long and tough way ahead.
>
> I am happy to report the following: last week there was a hearing on
> Network Neutrality in the Mexican Senate's Joint Commissions of Science and
> Technology and Communications and Transportation. The first of these has
> put forward a law initiative for NN and the second is in charge of its
> analysis for the Plenum.
>
> There were around ten presentations, two of them by ISOC Mexico leadership
> (Erik Huesca, our Executive Director, and myself) and several others by
> members of the chapter, with diverse views but within the spectrum of
> protecting Internet users from abuse and preserving the design principles
> of an open Internet. I think we were successful in conveying the basics.
> The Commissions decided on the spot (like it was not prepared ;-)) to form
> a Working Group, to which diverse stakeholders will be invited, in order to
> see if the initiative can be improved and pushed for approval this same
> legislative period.
>
> Among those present were ISPs and carriers like Telmex and Telefonica of
> Spain, local company; and a mobile company owned by a large TV consortium,
> so we had several sides at the meeting.
>
> The issue is also under study in the Advisory Committee of the telecoms
> regulator, with much the same actors though represented differently (both
> directly and through consultancies and lawyers from the law and lobbying
> firms that work for the telcos and broadcasters.)
>
> We are very careful in explaining when ISOC Mexico appears with an
> official position (not this time) and when we draw on ISOC expertise, which
> makes us proud, but speak in our personal responsibilities.
>
> The effort has been useful in outing some points of view and expertise,
> some of which is very welcome. We are glad to share contacts if any can be
> useful, thinking particularly of Spanish or Portuguese-speaking chapters
> and of the Continental (non-Anglo) legal tradition.
>
> Yours,
>
> Alejandro Pisanty
> .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . .  .  .  .  .  .
>     Dr. Alejandro Pisanty
> UNAM, Av. Universidad 3000, 04510 Mexico DF Mexico
>
> Tels. +52-(1)-55-5105-6044, +52-(1)-55-5418-3732
>
> *Mi blog/My blog: http://pisanty.blogspot.com
> *LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/pisanty
> *Unete al grupo UNAM en LinkedIn,
> http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/22285/4A106C0C8614
> *Twitter: http://twitter.com/apisanty
> ---->> Unete a ISOC Mexico, http://www.isoc.org
>  Participa en ICANN, http://www.icann.org
> .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
>  .
>
> ________________________________________
> Desde: chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org [
> chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org] en nombre de Frederic Donck [
> donck at isoc.org]
> Enviado el: lunes, 05 de marzo de 2012 10:11
> Hasta: Delegates Chapter
> Asunto: [Chapter-delegates] Net Neutrality and EU Parliament (February 27)
>
> All
>
> As part of our effort to engage with key stakeholders in Europe, I'm glad
> to share with you some recent talks which the EU Bureau had recently with
> many stakeholders in Brussels on Net Neutrality.
> This conference has been orgnanised in the European Parliament premises,
> on February 27.
>
> List of stakeholders and speakers as well as the different presentations
> (incl. the EU Bureau) can be found here (agenda): http://bit.ly/wHf9Fsand here (content):
> http://bit.ly/xpwPW1
> Worth noting is the French Regulator (ARCEP) presentation which shows some
> nice alignement with some of ISOC thoughts. This is not a surprise as we
> already measured this during our last meeting with the BEREC (already
> reported on this list)
> This said, unfortunately, more effort is still required as many
> stakeholders in Europe are still confused re: what the Internet really is
> and what the role /purpose of traffic management should be.
>
> Enjoy the reading and happy to answer any question.
>
> Best Regards
> Frederic
>
> Frederic Donck
> Director European Regional Bureau
> Internet Society
>
> www.isoc.org
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Chapter-delegates mailing list
> Chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
> https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/chapter-delegates
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Chapter-delegates mailing list
> Chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
> https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/chapter-delegates
>



-- 
NOTICE: The information contained in this e-mail message is intended only
for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If
you have received this communication by error, please notify us immediately
by e-mail, and delete the original message.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/private/chapter-delegates/attachments/20120305/8371c31b/attachment.htm>