[ogWiFi] IETF on Net Neutrality

[Michael Richardson]

IETF75 is in Stockholm this week.
The IESG plenary on Wednesday is 17:00 to 19:10, which conveniently is
1pm EST to 3pm EST. You can listen remotely via:

    http://feed.verilan.com/ietf/stream02.m3u  (I think)

and jabber to:
    xmpp:plenary at jabber.ietf.org?join

also see:  
  http://tools.ietf.org/agenda/75/#2009-07-28_0800

The topic is:
Network Neutrality; placing the debate in IETF context

   Over the last few years, the network neutrality debate has raised
   significant amount of interest among the different Internet stakeholders.
   Regulators all over the world are considering whether to introduce network
   neutrality regulation in their countries. Their decisions may have
   far-reaching implications for security, quality of service, or business
   models, among others. At the same time, what started as a debate over
   whether network providers should be allowed to block unaffiliated
   applications and content on their networks has evolved into a number of
   sub-debates that are difficult to follow.

   The technical plenary is devoted to present the network neutrality debate
   and its implications to the IETF community. It will start with an
   introduction to the debate and will continue with an analysis of the
   implications of such debate for the design of Internet protocols.

   It is not the intention of the organizers to have (yet another)
   instance of the NN debate, instead we want to investigate how the
   design of Internet Protocols is influenced by or can influence the
   debate. Therefore Barbara van Schewick,  a specialist in how regulatory
   aspects influence communication networks, will first introduce an
   overview of the various aspects of the debate. Thereafter Mark Handley,
   a  well known Internet Architect researcher,  will share his thoughts
   on how the Network Neutrality tussle impacts protocol design.

   The two presentations will be followed by a discussion where we
   would like to ask the participants to focus on the technical aspects
   and considerations, and to keep away from stating their NN opinion.

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