Network Neutrality - Latest on Regulation
http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2015/07/08-roaming-ch... There is a link to the regulation as PDF. "How will this become a law? The agreed text will undergo technical finalisation. It then needs to be formally approved by the Council and the Parliament. The Council is expected to formally adopt it in the autumn 2015. This does not need to take place in the Telecom Council: any Council configuration has the power to adopt the legal act. The regulation will enter into force 20 days after its publication in the EU Official Journal.”
http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2015/07/08-roaming-ch...
you are proposing we plan to measure this? how? randy
OK. Clarification. You? We? Well not me. And not you. If the EU institutions (Council and Parliament) agree on this (and I understand that this to be very likely) then the associated tasks will be delegated to the national regulators. So to rephrase: the EU institutions are proposing that the EU regulators plan to measure this. Various people have asked me what previous drafts of the regulation meant. OK I guess that that means the text was not clear. But I increasingly pointed them to BEREC (the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications) who, with the national regulators, will be responsible for implementing the regulation and therefore for interpreting it. So the “plan” is being made there. Much good reading can be found on the BEREC web-site. Anyway we had the presentations on “network neutrality“ in Amsterdam. And last week AFNIC hosted a meeting on measurements. Good meeting. A guy from the local regulator spoke. But so did Patrik and Daniel. Niall was also there. It could be interesting to hear what they think. I think though that this proposed regulation is potentially bad for the internet. I would love to hear arguments otherwise. From folk who have read the drafts of course! Gordon
On 10 Jul 2015, at 22:29, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2015/07/08-roaming-ch...
you are proposing we plan to measure this? how?
randy
I would suggest that it could be useful if either MAT or Cooperation invited somebody from the local regulator in Bucharest to come along and explain what they will now do, in line with the regulation, about “network neutrality” and in particular about the measurements to be made: what measurements, how they will be made, who by and how they will then be used. Gordon
On 10 Jul 2015, at 22:29, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2015/07/08-roaming-ch...
you are proposing we plan to measure this? how?
randy
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Gordon Lennox
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