The conclusion in a research handbook should emphasise the complexity of the problem than trying to claim a one-size-fits-all solution. I have categorised net neutrality into positive and negative (content discrimination) net neutrality indicating the latter as potentially harmful. Blocking...

Marsden explains for a general policy audience what the regulatory and governance problems and potential solutions are for the issue referred to as ‘network neutrality’, unpacking its ‘lite’ and ‘heavy’ elements. Eschewing technical, economic or legalistic explanations which he has...

Mobile is a rapidly growing and potentially major element of the future Internet, and its environment cannot be sensibly considered in isolation from fixed networks. A note on terminology: Europe uses the term Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) while the United States uses ‘wireless’ Internet...

This Phase 2 Report is a deliverable element of the study being conducted by a team led by RAND Europe into 'Options for and Effectiveness of Internet Self- and Co-Regulation'. The main objective of the study is to assist the Commission in development of a coherent and effective approach to...

This is the final report of a study undertaken during 2007 into the 'Options for, and effectiveness of, Internet Self- and Co-Regulation'. The study was undertaken at the request of DG Information Society and Media as a contribution to improving the knowledge base for the Impact Assessment (IA)...

The report aims to isolate and examine the socio-institutional barriers to better re-use of Public Sector Information (PSI). It assesses the draft proposal for a Data Mashing Lab (DML) (see: Appendix 2) and is intended for a specialized audience of government policy makers. The findings are...

The NCSA Mozilla browser was launched on a largely unsuspecting world on 28 September 1993, twenty years before this conference. In those twenty years, the Internet has grown to reach 5 billion of the world’s citizens, and about 75% of citizens in the developed world. Even now, statute and...

In this interdisciplinary paper written by a socio-legal scholar and a computer scientist, we explain a novel holistic approach to Internet regulation in the broader public interest. We argue for ‘prosumer law' and give an example of our proposed solution to the problems of dominant social...

Network neutrality is a growing policy controversy. Traffic management techniques affect not only high-speed, high-money content, but by extension all other content too. Internet regulators and users may tolerate much more discrimination in the interests of innovation. For instance, in the...