[Chapter-delegates] Meeting on WCIT at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology

[Klaus Birkenbihl]

Dave,

Verizon didn't speak-up much. What I heard them say was >>we support
much of the ETNO proposal (esp. the QoS part) but we don't think
it should become part of the ITRs<<. Same for Vodaphone.

Klaus

Dave Burstein wrote on 2012-10-01 23:18:
> Klaus
> 
> This is very important reporting for the U.S., because our NTIA head,
> Larry Strickling, said at the Columbia event just about everyone here
> was backing the U.S. position. Verizon splitting from that is
> significant because of their massive lobbying power. 
> 
>    All details on what Verizon and Vodafone said would be very helpful.
> 
> Thanks
> db
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Klaus Birkenbihl
> <Klaus.Birkenbihl at isoc.de <mailto:Klaus.Birkenbihl at isoc.de>> wrote:
> 
>     Colleagues,
> 
>     this is a summary of a meeting that took place at the German Federal
>     Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) last Thursday 9/27
>     10:00-17:00.
>     I participated in the meeting on behalf of ISOC.DE <http://ISOC.DE>.
>     Attendance:
> 
>     ~30 Participants representing the usual suspects as well as reps
>     of the environment like consumers, industry, computer manufacturers
>     (Intel, NEC ...), assistants to MoPs ...
> 
>     Presentations:
> 
>     Voss, Head of department for Technology policy (BMWi)
>     Welcome
> 
>     Scholl, (ITU Secretariat)
>     presents ITU. How we work, why often misjudged, consensus based,
>     members ...
> 
>     Schöppner, Deputy Head of department for Technology policy (BMWi)
>     on positions of BMWI on WCIT proposals. 10 selected topics. Positions
>     either in line with or not covered by ISOC C74. These positions
>     are according to BMWi in line with CEPT. Main rationals:
>     Don't change a running system
>     Don't extend ITR's scope or bindingness
>     Schöpner's presentation received quite some support during the
>     discussion.
> 
>     Doll, (Deutsche Telekom)
>     presents ETNO C 109. Controversial discussions. I, referring to
>     European
>     Chapters Position argued against the QoS part (a threat for net
>     neutrality) and the SPNP. (BMWi showed a lot of sympathy with the
>     ETNO paper which obviously was achieved in their previous talks
>     with Deutsche Telekom) Voss (BMWi) blocked further discussion
>     of Net Neutrality referring to a separate event on this topic.
>     Other carriers (Verizon, Vodaphone ...) support ETNO positions.
>     But they discussed whether they should become part of the ITRs.
> 
>     Schwarz (Federal Network Agency)
>     (The Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications,
>     Post and Railway is a separate higher federal authority within the
>     scope of business of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and
>     Technology) brought forward a strong position of his agency against
>     ETNO C 109, covering most of concerns that are shared by ISOC.
>     Schwarz emphasized that this position was covered by the head of
>     the agency. This lead to a certain huff on side of the ministry.
> 
>     That's it in short. One of the participants asked the ministry to
>     provide a WIKI to continue discussion and collect references.
>     Not much support for the idea from the ministry. So ISOC.DE
>     <http://ISOC.DE>
>     is considering to pick-up this idea and provide the technical
>     infrastructure for the discussion.
> 
>     We also received a friendly coverage from a leading ICT publisher
>     (Heise):
>     http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Europa-sucht-gemeinsame-Position-zur-internationalen-Telecom-Regulierung-1720367.html
> 
> 
>     Schöne Grüße, Klaus
> 
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-- 
Klaus Birkenbihl
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