IGDA seeks member feedback on Open Internet Policy
Dear IGDA Members,
The IGDA Policy and Advocacy Committee has drafted a policy on Open Internet and we are seeking feedback from members who care about the issue. You can access our current draft for review here.
The document was drafted in response to the Federal Communications Commission's request for comment on their Notice of Proposed Rule-Making released October 22, 2009. After some detailed review, we've determined that we are in favor of Open Internet as outlined by the FCC and we intend to file a letter by their RFC deadline on April 28. We've run our policy by a lot of expert members already, but before we file with the FCC we wanted to open the document for feedback from our general membership.
Our policy position is only two pages long so I encourage you to read it, but the high-level summary is simple.
- The IGDA strongly supports a rule that prohibits blocking and discrimination. Legal uses of the Internet should be freely allowed.
- The IGDA strongly supports prohibiting ISPs from charging providers of content or services for the right of access to their Internet-service customers. This applies to mandatory charges for access to the network (or subsystems thereof), and to charges for fully-competitive transport.
- The IGDA strongly supports transparency, for benefit of both customers and providers.
The FCC deadline for submission is April 28. To be able to collate all of your comments in time for the Board of Directors to review and approve the final wording, we need to have your feedback by Thursday, April 22.
Thank you, and I look forward to your feedback!
Darius
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