From the European Parliament web-site: <<Public stakeholder consultation on Telecoms Regulation Ms Pilar del Castillo (EPP), the newly appointed ITRE Rapporteur on the recently proposed Telecoms Regulation is launching a public stakeholder consultation to benefit from the input of consumers, national regulators, industry stakeholders and other interested parties, not least NGOs, in the work of the ITRE Committee. The Rapporteur would welcome this stakeholder input on the Commission proposal by 5 November 2013. For more information on the proposal consult EC website. ITRE Secretariat contacts: Peter Traung and Elina Kaartinen>> http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/itre/home.html

+1 to Nick's point -- I can look around my realm for a distillation, if needed. In the meantime, Gordon et al. if you have a pointer to intelligible summaries, along with particularly vague and/or problematic sections, I think that would help anchor commentary during the short time we have left. Cheers, Meredith On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Nick Hilliard <nick@inex.ie> wrote:

On 17/10/2013 14:07, Gordon Lennox wrote:

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** interconnection

** network neutrality & the open internet v. specialised services

Hi Gordon,

Could you expand on their positions on interconnection, or at least provide some pointers to URLs. I started to look at some of the urls on the europa web site, but got a massive case of verbosititis and ran scared. Probably I'm not the only person who is interested in the interconnection stuff (maybe the connect bof people too?)

Nick

-- Meredith Whittaker Program Manager, Google Research Google NYC

Another view: "Help: EU Net Neutrality Consultation Closes Today Published 08:15, 05 November 13 As you may recall, back in September the European Commission finally came out with its proposals for net neutrality, part of its larger "Connected Continent" package designed to complete the telecoms single market. I learned yesterday that the European committee responsible for this area,ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy), has launched something of a stealth consultation on these proposals. Stealth, because neither I nor anyone else that I know covering this area, was aware of them, which is pretty bizarre. Unfortunately, that consultation closes at the end of business today. That means we have very little time to comment, although speaking to the people running the consultation, I get the impression that they won't apply the deadline too strictly if you let them know that something will be coming through a little late. There is no formal document outlining the terms of the consultation - just bring up the points you think important. Submissions should be sent to elina.kaartinen@europarl.europa.eu and/or peter.traung@europarl.europa.eu. Here's what I've written: ...." http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2013/11/please-help-eu-net-...