[ NNSquad ] Re: Comments on NNSquad Purpose

[Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>]

At 06:26 PM 11/8/2007, David P. Reed wrote:

> Brett-
>
> This list and NNSquad's purpose is not about defining "network 
> neutrality", nor is it required to.

Dave, please keep your personal grudges (you seem to have one HECK 
of a chip on your shoulder about Yours Truly) off list.

The fact is that there is no point in having a mailing list about 
"network neutrality" if what is being discussed has not been 
defined. There is a terrible "blind men and the elephant" problem 
here, and the very first order of business should be to clear it 
up. It is vitally important to craft a mutually agreeable 
definition. And because a definition names what is defined and 
LIMITS it, we will avoid the problem of having anything that anyone 
wants of an ISP -- no matter how unreasonable or unrelated -- 
lumped into the vague cause of "network neutrality."

--Brett Glass