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Re: Halloween, 2006 More input for you
Doc, Thank you for your openness to getting additional views before updating your post of a year ago. A lot has happened since then. The issue burst on the scene as an issue in the telecom reform legislation and is now the defining debate over the future of the Internet. As Chairman of NetCompetition.org, a leading eforum on the net neutrality debate funded by broadband companies, I hope you will look at a lot of the good work that we have done on the issue. Unlike other sites on the subject we post and have links to both sides info and sites and are genuinely open to hearing the best arguments on both sides of the issue. That openness comes from my deep belief that the best policy emerges from a open rigorous debate on the merits. I got into this issue in a big way out of frustration that many were very loose with the facts and thin on substance. You are a key thinker and influential in this debate Doc. I hope you can encourage a rigorous examination of the net neutrality issue beyond the sloganeering that drives it today. Key is being open to testing the assumptions underlying the call for net neutrality. I spend a lot of time trying to understand where net neutrality proponents are coming from. I trust you are equally interested in understanding where the other side is coming from. Without a doubt it is an important policy issue deserving thoughtful attention and focus. Thank you again for being open to hearing from the other side in this debate...it is very refreshing. Scott Cleland Chairman, NetCompetition.org
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