An interesting meeting on Network Neutrality at the the Digital Economy All-Party Parliamentary Group last night. Despite the wide range of speakers, there was a remarkable level of agreement that:
The term “Network Neutrality” has too many definitions to be useful – “Open Internet” is preferable;
All connections must provide access to the Open Internet, described elsewhere [...]
Nominet have published an interesting analysis of the legal issues around any possible process for suspending domains associated with criminal activity. This raises the rather worrying issue that the legal position is not clear if a registry is informed of unlawful conduct somewhere in their domain and decides that the evidence is not strong enough [...]
Interesting to see an awareness of developments in European privacy law in a presentation from Google at the UCISA Management Conference.
Google have established a “Data Liberation Front” engineering team dedicated to making it easy to both import and export data from their services. This may well align with the Commission’s demand that a right to [...]
Nominet have published an issues paper asking whether there are circumstances in which it might be appropriate to rapidly suspend a DNS domain involved in criminal activity, and the processes that would be needed to ensure such action did not create too great a risk of unfairness. I’m writing this in an attempt to sort [...]