Definition

Many

• Wikipedia: Network Neutrality

• Werebuild

• http://www.npt.no/iKnowBase/Content/109604/Guidelines%20for%20network%20neutrality.pdf

• ACLU position paper: http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/NetNeutrality_report_20101019.pdf

Terms

• lawful content: signal word pro-filtering. To decide what is lawful and what not, there would be deep packet inspection necessary.

• mere conduit: ISP should only forward the traffic without being liable for content. See http://werebuild.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Mere_conduit

Regulatory activities

• COM/2011/0222 - Open internet and net neutrality in Europe

  • http://euwiki.org/COM/2011/0222

  • commission proposal: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2011:0222:FIN:EN:PDF

• EU COM public consultation on the open internet and net neutrality:

  http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/ecomm/library/public_consult/net_neutrality/index_en.htm

• BEREC consultation on draft guidelines on net neutrality and transparency (info)

  • 2011-12-08 result: A framework for Quality of Servic in the scope of Net Neutrality

• US FCC

  • http://www.fcc.gov/topic/open-internet

  • http://www.openinternet.gov/

  • http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-303745A1.pdf

• NL

  • https://www.bof.nl/2011/06/15/net-neutrality-in-the-netherlands-state-of-play/

• DE
  • The German government thinks it's too early to codify net neutrality in legislation. They want to wait and see how bad the problem will become.
  • Transposition of telecom package added
    • a vague general goal to "advocate the possibility of end users to access or distribute information or use applications and services of their choice". (added §2(2)1 TKG)
    • authorisation (no explicit order) for the government to define minimum standards of non-discriminatory communication, but that has to be approved by legislation before. (added §41a(1) TKG)
    • authorisation (no explicit order) for the goverment to define minimum standards to service quality, but that has to be submitted to the European Commission and BEREC for review before. (added §41a(1) TKG)
    • obligation of telcos to inform users about technical specs of access restrictions, restrictions of services and applications, minimum service quality offered, methods used to measure and control network capacity and overload. (added §43a(2)2-4, §45n(4)3-4)
    • Relevant documents (in german):

      • Government draft version: http://dipbt.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/17/057/1705707.pdf

      • Amendments by parliament committee (adopted 2011-10-27): http://dipbt.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/17/075/1707521.pdf

      • Dossier progress: http://dipbt.bundestag.de/dip21.web/searchDocuments/documentData_detail_vp.do?vorgangId=33863

• PL

  • ISOC: http://www.isoc.org.pl/201202/nowelaPT-NN

Projects

• http://www.euhackathon.eu - Nov 8-9 2011 hackathon in the EP in Brussels

• http://respectmynet.eu - name and shame operators restricting access to the Internet