Talk:Net Neutrality

Please feel free to post comments here.Joly 21:00, 19 February 2007 (PST)

isoc policy statement

This policy statement needs to be strengthened:

http://www.isoc.org/pubpolpillar/network_neutrality.shtml

The second definition listed at the top of the page needs updating; it reflects one way the issue was presented early on. There's a difference between treating similar applications alike, and supporting diverse applications by the design of the transport. Treating similar applications alike just as well would tend to make the Internet platform no longer flexible and generic, an actual medium for diverse applications. This is the difference between the transport and the applications above.

The wikipedia pages make this point.

ISOC NY can clarify this with your statement to the FTC, and this is a key insight you would bring to the FTC, who can't see the issue correctly yet. Remember that flexibility is the key, and we wouldn't have any reason to worry about the future of the standards or the flexibility of the Internet -- or even have any debate over "net neutrality" -- if the incumbents hadn't expressed an intention to use their position to establish practices that would make the transport non-generic.

Seth[1]