[Commons-Law] URGENT TODAY on Net Neutrality: "Packets" not "Applications, Content and Services"

[Seth Johnson]

Urgent advisory on lobbying related to net neutrality today:

If you're talking with Congressional staff on this issue, the key
message is that you have to get language that talks about
packets, not "applications, content and services."

Snowe-Dorgan needs to be amended to talk about packets, not
applications, content and services.  Presenting nondiscrimination
in those terms only authorizes policies at the application layer
to take control of the transport.  There isn't any approach to
net neutrality that works, that talks about the application layer
-- whether you're doing it to prioritize or to treat equally or
nondiscriminate.

The proposal here shows one way to do that:
http://www.dpsproject.com

See the proposed language at
http://www.dpsproject.com/legislation.html , for an example that
says the behavior of the routers, transmitting packets
independently of the application layer, is what assures net
neutrality and all the characteristics of the IP transport.

It could be put in a few words, if you use the word "packets."

So that's the word:

"Packets," not "Application, content and services."

Get that in there.  That will save the Internet.

You can use the proposal at http://www.dpsproject.com to
illustrate.


Seth