[IRP] Nature of Charter - Conference Call

Tapani Tarvainen tapani.tarvainen
Tue Nov 30 07:00:39 EET 2010


On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:02:43PM +0100, Meryem Marzouki (meryem at marzouki.info)
> Hi Marianne, Dixie and all,
> 
> I would go even further, and reduce the sentence to:
> 
> "No blocking or filtering should be made mandatory or enforced
> beyond what is strictly necessary to ensure the technical
> functioning of the net."
> 
> Furthermore, if we keep the current acknowledgement that sometimes
> blocking or filtering is " necessary to ensure the technical
> functioning of the net" (which is, BTW, the argument of those who
> block, including for other reasons), then I think we should be more
> specific and make distinction between blocking/filtering of
> *content* and blocking/filtering of *services* or *protocols*

Yes. I would like some formulation that makes it clear that
mandatory *content-based* filtering is never acceptable.

-- 
Tapani Tarvainen



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