Net Neutrality

Resources

Websites and Advocacy groups

Canada

• Saveournet.ca
• Neutrality.ca
• What is Net Neutrality?
• PIAC
• CRACIN

US and Others

• Center for Democracy & Technology
• Centre for Digital Democracy
• CyberTelecom Policy Group
• It’s Our Net
• Net Competition.org
• Save the Internet
• The Future … Faster

News articles and presentations

Canada

• "Dial W for a wireless clash" Competition already tough, national wireless carriers say
• Lee-Ann Goodman: Battle for ‘Net neutrality’ arrives in Canada
• Michael Geist, “The Search for Network Neutrality”

US and others

• “Keeping The Internet Neutral? Debate between Christopher S. Yoo and Timothy Wu
• Doc Searls, “Net Neutrality vs. Net Neutering” Linux Journal
• Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business
• James Sang, Network Neutrality
• Ken Belson and Vikas Bajaj Phone vs. Cable: Turf Wars Escalate
• PBS Feature on Network Neutrality
• Richard J. Dalton Jr.: Grassroots movement wants laws to keep online providers from controlling access to data
• Steven Levy: Celebrating a Web That's Free—For Now
• Susan Crawford and Christopher Yoo, “FAQ on Net Neutrality”
• The Net @ Risk: Net Neutrality
• What is Net Neutrality? Presentation by Earl W. Comstock President and CEO COMPTEL
• Wikipedia Article on Network Neutrality

Academic writings and white papers

• Barbara van Schewick, Towards an Economic Framework for Network Neutrality Regulation"
• Bill D. Herman, “Opening bottlenecks: On behalf of mandated network neutrality”
• Broadband Working Group MIT Comm. Future Prog. “The Broadband Incentive Problem”
• Christopher S. Yoo, Would Mandating Broadband Network Neutrality Help Or Hurt Competition? A Comment on the End-to-End Debate
• Craig Mctaggart, Neutrality and Canada's Telecommunications Act
• Edward W. Felton, Nuts and bolts of Network Neutrality
• Paul Ohm, "The Rise and Fall of Invasive ISP Surveillance"
• Susan Crawford, "Network Rules"
• The USC Annenberg Center: Principles for Network Neutrality
• Tim Wu, Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination
• Tim Wu, The Broadband Debate, a User’s Guide

Government Documents and Submissions

Canada

• CIPPIC’s submissions to the Telecom Policy Review Panel
• Michael Geist’s submissions to the Telecom Policy Review Panel
• Policy Direction on Telecommunications to CRTC
• Regulation of VoIP in Canada: CRTC decision 2005-28
• Report of the National Broadband Task Force
• Telecommunications Policy Review Panel Report

United States

• Angele A Gilroy, CRS Report for Congress, Net Neutrality: Background and Issues
• Communications, Consumer’s Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006
• Dr Lessig's testimony to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation
• Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act of 2006
• Internet Non-Discrimination Act of 2006
• Net Neutrality: Background and Issues. CRS Report for congress
• Net Neutrality: Let's Look Before We Leap" Remarks of Assistant Secretary of Commerce Nancy J. Victory to the Progress and Freedom Foundation Conference
• Network neutrality legislation (US)
• Tim Wu & Lawrence Lessig, Letter to the FCC
• US Senate Committee Press Release: Poll, September 2006,Very few registered voters are familiar with the issue of network neutrality

Policy Papers

Canada

• CRTC Takes New Direction
• Order under Section 8 of the Telecommunications Act – Policy Direction to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
• PIAC: Minister’s Proposed Directive to CRTC is One-Sided and Beyond his Powers
• Promoting Broadband: The case for Canada International Telecommunication Union
• The Daily: Canadian Internet usage
• Timothy Denton Memorandum to the Minister of Industry and the Director General, Telecommunications Policy

US and Others

• A Guide to Net Neutrality for Google Users
• Adam D. Thierer , ‘Net Neutrality’: Digital Discrimination or Regulatory Gamesmanship in Cyberspace? Cato Institute Paper
• American Electronic Association (AeA): Net Neutrality and Innovation
• Center for Democracy and Technology
• CyberTelecom.org Position on Net Neutrality
• Daniel Weitzner, The Neutral Internet: An Information Architecture for Open Societies
• Jeffrey Chester, The Nation: Criticism of US Senate Committee Poll
• Legislating Network Neutrality-Necessary. Advisory Committee to Congressional Internet Caucus
• Policy statement FCC
• Rob Frieden, Best Practices in Broadband: Lessons from Canada, Japan, Korea and the United States
• Robert Hahn and Scott Wallsten, The Economics of Network Neutrality
• Supreme Court Rules in Brand X Case

Relevant CRTC Decisions

• Telecom Decision CRTC 2003-26: In this decision, an application by Microcell regarding alleged contractions of section 27(2) of the Telecommunications Act by Rogers Wireless and Bell Mobility was denied. The commission finds that the canadian wireless market is robustly competitive.
• Telecom Decision CRTC 2006-33: In this Decision, the Commission addresses a Part VII application filed by Superior Wireless Inc. (Superior) alleging that its customers had been subject to unjust discrimination by TBayTel. The Commission finds that while TBayTel did discriminate against Superior's customers*,* the discrimination was not unjust*.* Accordingly, the Commission denies the relief sought by Superior.
• Telecom Decision CRTC 2006-49: In this Decision, the Commission disposes of a Part VII application by the Quebec Coalition of Internet Service Providers in which it requested Commission assistance to address certain provisioning and rate issues associated with Bell Canada's asymmetric digital subscriber line services..
• Telecom Decision CRTC 2006-61: In this Decision, the Commission denies Cybersurf Corp.'s application for access to the Quality of Service Enhancement Service of Shaw Cablesystems G.P. (Shaw) and PacketCable functionality of Rogers Communications Inc., Shaw, and Vidéotron ltée. The Commission does not consider that traffic using the high-speed Internet service/third-party Internet access (HSIS/TPIA) network is being given unequal treatment or that parties using the HSIS/TPIA network are unable to provide their customers with an equivalent range of services.

Other resource sites

• Center for Democracy & Technology, Network Neutrality Reading Room
• Centre for Digital Democracy, Links and Articles
• CNET News Network Neutrality Showdown
• Educause.edu Resources
• http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm
• OECD Broadband Statistics to June 2006

Blogs

• Mark Evans: The Battle over Net Neutrality
• Mark Evans: The Roots of Net Neutrality Rules in Canada
• Mark Goldberg: Net Neutrality or Open Access?
• Rob Hyndman

Other

• Glossary of terms useful in following the network neutrality debate