[LINK] Vote 1 - Maxime Verhagen for Aussie PM.... Was - Holland plans net neutrality law

[Tom Koltai]

Now here is a politician that understands the benefit of market led
competition.
Let me see, legalised VOIP , Mary Jane, Hash Cookies, Gold Tops and
Heroin... 

Should make for interesting free Skype Calls.

Yet Dutch Internet Exchange, The AMX, is now one of the largest in the
world because of the forward looking policies of Dutch Politicians.

Geographically, the European Central Exchange should be Praha, Budapest
or somewhere in the Vienna/Graz corridor, but no, it is 800 kms
northwest on the edge of the North Sea.

Interesting N'est-ce pas ????



> -----Original Message-----
> From: link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au 
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Kim Holburn
> Sent: Saturday, 28 May 2011 5:53 PM
> To: Link list
> Subject: [LINK] Holland plans net neutrality law
> 
> 
> A Dutch telco uses DPI to charge extra for VOIP including 
> skype calls.  Everybody unhappy.
> 
> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/telco-missteps
> -overreach-lead-to-dutch-net-neutrality.ars
> 
> > Telco missteps, overreach leading to Dutch net neutrality law
> > 
> > By Nate Anderson | Published about 14 hours ago
> >        
> > Big news out of the Netherlands this week, where a 
> government minister 
> > announced plans to guarantee network neutrality by law.

<SNIP>

> It's not OK 
> > for Skype and other such services to be throttled. But even in the 
> > face of this high-level resistance to such plans, major Dutch 
> > telecommunications company KPN went ahead with new plans to charge 
> > extra for certain Internet services, notably Skype and 
> WhatsApp. The 
> > company then admitted on an earnings call what most people 
> suspected: 
> > it would be using deep packet inspection hardware to monitor all 
> > Internet traffic and classify it by application in order to 
> make the 
> > new charging scheme work.
> > 
> > The decision kicked up huge controversy in the Netherlands, 
> and this 
> > week Maxime Verhagen, the Minister of Economic affairs, 
> Agriculture, 
> > and Innovation, announced in Parliament a plan to ban the practice.

Rah Rah the Dutch....

TomK