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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Hunsinger" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 10:54 AM
Subject: [Air-L] "Network Neutrality Squad": Users Protecting an Open
andFair Internet
> >
>>
>> "Network Neutrality Squad": Users Protecting an Open and Fair
>> Internet
>>
>> http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000327.html
>>
>>
>> Greetings. I'm very pleased to announce a new project from
>> PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility:
>>
>> "Network Neutrality Squad" - NNSquad
>>
>> http://www.nnsquad.org
>>
>>
>> Joining PFIR Co-Founders Peter G. Neumann and I in this announcement
>> are Keith Dawson (Slashdot.org), David J. Farber (Carnegie
>> Mellon University), Bob Frankston, Phil Karn (Qualcomm),
>> David P. Reed, Paul Saffo, and Bruce Schneier (BT Counterpane).
>>
>> Recent events such as Comcast's lack of candor regarding their
>> secretive disruption of BitTorrent protocols, and Verizon's altering
>> of domain name lookup results to favor their own advertising pages,
>> are but tip-of-the-iceberg examples of how easily Internet
>> operations can be altered in ways that may not be immediately
>> obvious, but that still can have dramatic, distorting, and in some
>> cases far-reaching negative consequences for the Internet's users.
>>
>> The Network Neutrality Squad ("NNSquad") is an open-membership,
>> open-source effort, enlisting the Internet's users to help keep the
>> Internet's operations fair and unhindered from unreasonable
>> restrictions.
>>
>> The project's focus includes detection, analysis, and incident
>> reporting of any anticompetitive, discriminatory, or other
>> restrictive actions on the part of Internet service Providers (ISPs)
>> or affiliated entities, such as the blocking or disruptive
>> manipulation of applications, protocols, transmissions, or
>> bandwidth; or other similar behaviors not specifically requested by
>> their customers.
>>
>> Other key aspects of the project are discussions, technology
>> development and deployment, and associated activities -- fostering
>> cooperation and mutually agreeable methodologies whenever
>> possible -- aimed at keeping the Internet a maximally unhindered,
>> useful, competitive, fair, and open environment for the broadest
>> possible range of applications and services.
>>
>> We invite individual, commercial, nonprofit, government, and all
>> other Internet users and stakeholders (including ISPs) to
>> participate in the Network Neutrality Squad.
>>
>> Please join the moderated mailing list (choice of immediate
>> distribution or digest) for project announcements and discussions,
>> by sending a message (any subject or text) to:
>>
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>> or by signing up at the mailing list Web page:
>>
>> http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad
>>
>> A moderated, interactive discussion and incident reporting forum is
>> also available for more real-time communications on related topics:
>>
>> http://forums.pfir.org/main/messages/714/714.html
>>
>> Questions and comments are welcome at [log in to unmask], or
>> feel free to contact me directly for details.
>>
>> Working together, we can help to keep the Internet an incredibly
>> useful resource for everyone around the globe, unhampered by any
>> efforts to skew its enormous capabilities in ways that could hinder
>> the many while benefiting the relative few.
>>
>> We hope that you'll join this cause. Thank you for your
>> consideration.
>>
>> --Lauren--
>>
>> (Affiliations shown for identification purposes only.)
>>
>> Lauren Weinstein
>> [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]
>> Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
>> http://www.pfir.org/lauren
>> Co-Founder, PFIR
>> - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org
>> Founder, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com
>> Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
>> Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
>>
>>
>
> jeremy hunsinger
> Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,
> School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
> (www.cipr.uwm.edu
> )
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