Net Neutrality
DATE: September 2010
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:·
- Traffic management is a commonly used practice to ensure the efficient operation of internet networks.
- Given capacity limitations, the efficient use of the internet by business (as well as by consumers and citizens) depends upon traffic management.
- Net Neutrality is a design principle which attempts to describe how the internet works. However, 20 years after the launch of the World Wide Web, Net Neutrality reflects neither the reality nor the future of the internet. It has been conflated into a governance principle which is out of step with today’s level of broadband consumption.
- Traffic management only creates an issue if it constitutes unfair discrimination.
- However, in the
- We welcome the European Commission’s focus on transparency and suggest further co-operation between ISPs, business, consumers and citizens to achieve a comprehensible standard of transparency.
- Rigid legislation will stifle innovation in what is a nascent but already competitive market.
Click on the link below to read the full reponse:
UK Music response to EC on EU Open Internet and Net Neutrality September 2010.pdf
