For your information and interests: ----- 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 > ) > > wiki.tmttlt.com > www.tmttlt.com > > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail > /\ - against microsoft attachments > http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki > http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ Learning Inquiry-the journal > http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary > Studies:the book series > > > > _______________________________________________ > The [log in to unmask] mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/