Aaron the Librarian

This is my concatenation of my and Miriam Nisbet’s notes:

___Net Neutrality

Greg Rohde (presenter)
Look at John windhausen paper [Link to Retreat Resources page]- PK “Good Fences” (John also working w/EDUCAUSE)
Non-discrimination in services, applications, content access and provision
How does that concept (non-discrimination) fit into ‘network management’? QoS?
What are the remedies we want?
Stevens bill re:Net Neutrality - sounds pretty good, but allows telecoms to limit “neutrality” by click-through and/or standard contract. (bad!)
Price discrimination in / for capacity is fine - discrimination in content is the trouble
Libraries as content providers - an important (often overlooked) role
Telcos argue Net Neutrality will interfere with their ability to manage their networks & ensure QoS

Tom Wilson
there are legitimate reasons for bit discrimination (e.g. universities’ mgmt of networks to limit bandwidth of music downloads — how to determine the difference is a sticky point)

Bob Bocher
Calls this (Tom’s example) “Edge management”

Larry Irving
Net Neutrality debate has been divisive in a partisan way - a real departure from traditional approach to telecom

Overarching Impressions
‘net neutrality’ — we need a new term for this — need a term that is not so laden with multiple, conflicting meanings
Bandwidth charges: equity of costs is not - and has never been - the issue for libraries.
We need Telecom providers point of view to see where we agree and disagree and to see what hurdles there might be.