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User Centric InternetOpen Inter-networking: access, choice, and transparencyDemand for Internet connections with greater bandwidth is increasing and this is a sign of the Internet’s continued success. The availability and subsequent use of high bandwidth access networks are putting pressure on network capacity, resulting in greater deployment and use of congestion management and traffic shaping techniques by network operators. This has raised public concerns that the open architecture guiding the Internet’s development might be in jeopardy. In this context, the concept of “network neutrality” has come to the foreground of policy and regulatory discussions about the Internet. Network neutrality is a broad and ill-defined term that encompasses a range of policy objectives including free expression, user choice, and discrimination as well as business issues including network traffic management, pricing, and overall business models. Rather than focusing on an ill-defined concept like network neutrality, the Internet Society believes that the proper focus in this discussion is on the desired outcome: continued open inter-networking. Relevant Open Inter-networking itemsInternet Society Briefing Paper: “Growing Pains: Bandwidth on the Internet”March 2010 - Stimulated by a panel event organized by the Internet Society, this paper presents the results of several recent studies, which, when combined represent the most detailed and comprehensive picture of the contemporary Internet available today. Read more... (PDF) Internet Society Briefing Paper: "Open Inter-networking"February 2010 - A policy-oriented paper that outlines the key principles of access, choice, and transparency that allows users to remain in control of their Internet experience, thus empowering them to benefit from and participate in the open Internet. With its focus on the user, the Open Inter-Networking paper forms a part of ISOC's Public Policy User-Centric Internet Program (launched in 2007), and is an extension of the ISOC paper "Preserving the User Centric Internet". Read more... (PDF) "The Bandwidth Bandwagon," IETF Journal, v5.3January 2010 - A summary of a panel discussion at IETF 76 that helped shed light on the realities of bandwidth growth, operator responses to a changing landscape, and new, relevant IETF work.. Read more... Internet Society Bandwidth Panel @ IETF 76November 2009 - Presentations and audio archive from an expert panel the Internet Society assembled alongside the 76th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) - the Internet's premier technical standards body - to discuss the changing shape of the Internet and some of the challenges arising from bandwidth growth. Read more... Internet Society's Workshop in Kigali: Open Internet and Network ConfidenceJune 2010 - The workshop will discuss two topics: Open Inter-networking (sometimes referred as net-neutrality) and Network confidence that are hot issues in the discussions of the Internet technical and policy experts around the world. Five experts of the two areas have been invited to present on these issues. Read more... Internet Society contributions to public policy discussions on Open Inter-networking
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