<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">​Just started.</div>. A highly detailed presentation from the co-chair of the expert working group that developed Europe's NN policy.<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><div><div style="font-size:small"> </div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><u></u><div class="m_6193447270658088860gmail-m_-2888091783607853110subscription-body-tag"><table style="width:100%;background-color:#dddddd" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><tbody><tr><td><span style="display:none"> joly posted: " Today Friday October 7th 2016 the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information presents the annual conference on the State of Telecom at the Columbia University, NYC. This year's event has the theme Online Video as the Disruptor: Winners and Losers. The even" </span><table class="m_6193447270658088860gmail-m_-2888091783607853110subscribe-body" style="width:100%;padding:10px" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td><div style="direction:ltr;max-width:600px;margin:0px auto;overflow:hidden"><table class="m_6193447270658088860gmail-m_-2888091783607853110subscribe-wrapper" style="width:100%;background-color:#ffffff;text-align:left;max-width:1024px;min-width:320px;margin:0px auto" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tbody><tr><td><table class="m_6193447270658088860gmail-m_-2888091783607853110subscribe-header-wrap" style="width:100%;background-color:#43a4d0;height:8px" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><br><table style="width:100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tbody><tr><td><p style="margin:0.7em 0px;padding:0px;color:#555555;line-height:1.4em;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#3478e3" href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/berec/" target="_blank"><img class="m_6193447270658088860alignright m_6193447270658088860size-full m_6193447270658088860wp-image-8704" style="border:1px solid #eeeeee;float:right;padding:2px;margin:0px 0px 2px 7px;display:block;clear:none;vertical-align:top;max-width:98%;height:auto" src="http://i0.wp.com/isoc-ny.org/p2/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/gip_berec_170x255.png?resize=170%2C255" alt="Livestream" width="170" height="255"></a>Last <strong>Thursday 6 October 2016</strong> the <strong><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#3478e3" href="http://giplatform.org/" target="_blank">Geneva Internet Platform</a></strong> presented a webinar <strong><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#3478e3" href="http://www.diplomacy.edu/calendar/webinar-net-neutrality-europe-berec-guidelines-and-beyond" target="_blank">Net neutrality in Europe: The BEREC guidelines and beyond</a></strong>. <strong>Mr Frode Sørensen</strong>, Senior Adviser at Norwegian Communications Authority (Nkom) presented an overview of the recently published <strong><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#3478e3" href="http://berec.europa.eu/" target="_blank">Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications</a></strong> set of <strong><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#3478e3" href="http://berec.europa.eu/eng/document_register/subject_matter/berec/regulatory_best_practices/guidelines/6160-berec-guidelines-on-the-implementation-by-national-regulators-of-european-net-neutrality-rules" target="_blank">Guidelines on the Implementation by National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) of European Network Neutrality Rules</a></strong>. The BEREC guidelines are aimed at assisting national regulatory authorities in implementing their net neutrality-related obligations according to the new <strong><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#3478e3" href="https://publications.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/8fdf5d08-93fc-11e5-983e-01aa75ed71a1/language-en" target="_blank">EU regulations (2015/2120)</a></strong>, including by closely monitoring and ensuring ‘compliance with the rules to safeguard equal and non-discriminatory treatment of traffic in the provision of Internet access services and related end-user rights’. The Guidelines were received with enthusiasm by civil society – some of whom see them as a win for net neutrality in the EU – and with a degree of reticence by telecom operators – some of whom argue that most of their concerns have not been taken into account. Regulators say their guidelines have found a balanced solution within the frames set out by the regulation, indicated by the observation that both camps in the debate seem equally (un)happy. Mr Sørensen provided a snapshot of the BEREC’s net neutrality guidelines, and reflected on their effect on commercial practices such as zero rating, traffic management of internet access services, the issue of specialised services, and the innovation and rights of Internet users, as well as questions raised by the participants. An edited version of the webinar will be streamed at <strong>1pm EDT</strong> today <strong>Monday October 10 2016</strong> on the <strong><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#3478e3" href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/berec/" target="_blank">Internet Society Livestream Channel</a></strong></p><p style="margin:0.7em 0px;padding:0px;color:#555555;line-height:1.4em;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong>What: <a style="text-decoration:none;color:#3478e3" href="http://www.diplomacy.edu/calendar/webinar-net-neutrality-europe-berec-guidelines-and-beyond" target="_blank">Net neutrality in Europe: The BEREC guidelines and beyond</a></strong><br><strong>When: Monday October 10 2016 1pm EDT (17:00 UTC)</strong><br><strong>Webcast: <a style="text-decoration:none;color:#3478e3" href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/berec/" target="_blank">https://livestream.<wbr>com/internetsociety/berec/</a></strong><br><strong>Twitter: #berec + #thegip <a style="text-decoration:none;color:#3478e3" href="http://bit.ly/2dZn2Cy" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2dZn2Cy</a></strong></p><table style="width:100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td class="m_6193447270658088860gmail-m_-2888091783607853110the-post" valign="top"><div class="m_6193447270658088860gmail-m_-2888091783607853110post-content" style="direction:ltr;margin-top:1em;max-width:560px"><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444444;font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"> </p></div><p class="m_6193447270658088860gmail-m_-2888091783607853110subscribe-action-links" style="direction:ltr;line-height:1.4em;font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;font-size:14px;color:#666666;padding:1em 0px 0em;width:auto"><a href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8703" target="_blank"> </a></p><table class="m_6193447270658088860gmail-m_-2888091783607853110auto-width" style="width:auto" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="width:10px"><a href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8703" target="_blank">Comment</a></td><td><a href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8703" target="_blank">   See all comments</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="m_6193447270658088860gmail-m_-2888091783607853110subscribe-wrapper-sub" style="width:100%;background-color:#efefef;text-align:left;border-top:1px solid #dddddd" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#efefef"><tbody><tr><td class="m_6193447270658088860gmail-m_-2888091783607853110subscribe-content" style="border-top:1px solid #f3f3f3;color:#888888;font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:#efefef"><p style="direction:ltr;color:#444444;font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:1.4em;margin:0px 0px 10px"> </p><p style="direction:ltr;color:#444444;font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:1.4em;margin:0px"> </p><div style="font-size:small;display:inline"><strong>​Permalink</strong></div><br><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8699" target="_blank">http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8703</a><div> </div><div style="font-size:small;display:inline">​</div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br><br></div></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div class="m_6193447270658088860gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>Joly MacFie</div><div>President - Internet Society New York Chapter (ISOC-NY)</div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://isoc-ny.org" target="_blank">http://isoc-ny.org</a>          </span><span><span id="gc-number-147" class="gc-cs-link" title="Call with Google Voice">218 565 9365</span></span></div></div></div>
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