trotline - 8:25 pm on Mar 12, 2009 (gmt 0)

On the original subject, net neutrality is being fought by corporate interest who want their "own" in house version of the Internet. Like cable companies, AOL,so forth.

It is most important to keep the web open and neutral or we have reverted back to the old days of media monopolies. Until this growing pain is passed we must remain vigilant for net neutrality since most of us here have interests that depend on it.

Europe does set some of the international standards but so do others. There is not a cut and dry way of producing international standards. It is an organic process and is debated openly amongst professional standards organizations. It generally winds up being a good international standard all can agree on.

If it is a high stakes game that does not involve technical standards, like net neutrality, and it is in the early stages of developing then the lobbyists and politicians move in. Ages old process.

"Give me Internet neutrality or give me death." or something like that.