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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Google / Verizon "net neutrality" conference call
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (privacy@vortex.com)
Mon Aug 9 14:48:27 2010
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 11:27:57 -0700
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A joint (very short notice) conference call between the Google and
Verizon CEOs has completed. Very brief nutshell from my notes:
1) The firms vigorously deny that they made any carriage or related
deals. They declared recent reporting to the contrary to be totally
wrong.
2) The firms set forth a "Joint Policy Agreement" including seven
principles that they would like to see broadly implemented.
3) Of the seven principles, I view five of them as entirely
noncontroversial.
4) Principle #6 on different handling of wireline and wireless
data invokes some issues that need to be discussed.
5) Principle #5 on the creation of "non-Internet" differentiated
services (which Google's CEO pledged not to use) appears
significantly problematic in a number of respects, and was
(appropriately) the focus of virtually all questions on the call.
Google has posted the principles at:
http://bit.ly/cpO0bU (Google Public Policy Blog)
I'll write up my thoughts on all this in more detail as
soon as possible.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com)
http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
Co-Founder, PFIR (People For Internet Responsibility): http://www.pfir.org
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