Talk:How can the open Internet coexist with new IP services? – PL 03 2015

Below a summary of our conversation- "NN PL3 call/1/April 15"

Present (Alphabetical order by name) Luca Belli, Frederic Donck (FP), Mat Ford, Thomas Grob, Yasen Gyurov, Lorena Jaume-Palasi (Eurodig Sec.), Michael Kende, Gonzalo Lopez Barajashude, Nebojsa Regoje

A. Composition and Inclusiveness of the Org. team: 1. Agreed to extend the org. team to more reps of civil society, start ups, Internet businesses, Academics. By the end of the week, invitations to be launched to — EDRI; Academics (C.Mardsen): Luca — Bulgarian Start up: Yasen — CDT: Frederic — Google: Frederic — Quadrature: Lorena — Allied fro Startups: Lorena

2. Agreed that all means will be used to ensure full inclusiveness and transparency of the process: Eurodig secretariat to provide open and accessible tools for drafting process and ability to post and/or vote on comments (wiki, genius). Eurodig Secretariat to ensure publicity and open campaign about the existence of such a process (social media, hashtags, etc.). Each Member of the Org. team to ensure his related communities are being fully informed and invited to contribute-though own specific channels (eg. Luca though IGF dynamic coalition, Frederic through ISOC membership, etc.).

B. Objectives: Objectives are two-fold as not only is the org.team responsible with the organisation of the Plenary session in Sofia but also with the coordination of the drafting of an “Eurodig statement on NN” which shall be presented during the Plenary session. Objective 1 (organisation of NN Plenary): on hold for the moment as heavily dependent upon dynamic and advancement of Objective 2 Objective 2 (Eurodig Statement on NN): - Frederic provided context wrt objective of Eurodig this year (see also mail of April 3 attached below. He also recalled that this process is not aimed at becoming a petition or text with signatories (even though stakeholders if they so wish would be free to take over wording of it when text is released). Objective is to obtain consensus on the text and turn it into a "Eurodig outcome on NN”. - Initial suggestion is to develop an approach aimed at reaching consensus on perspectives which would cover the diversity of stakeholders, interests and principles wrt NN. This would among others include end-users, Human rights and businesses. - Additional suggestions included: — Existing or past initiatives to be considered by the org. team as, e.g., “Eurodig Internet Neutrality Declaration” shared by Nebojsa, RFC on NN by DCNN (IGF Dynamic Coalition on NN) shared by Luca- who also recalled that Eurodig workshop on NN in 2014 adopted bullets points (pointers shared with this group by Luca) — Develop basic Eurodig statements on uncontroversial policy principles — share discussions of this group with DCNN mailing list

C. Way forward:

The Org. team agreed to further proceed with an approach based on several angles/perspectives of NN which would cover Businesses (both ISPs and content providers), End-users, Human Rights, Technical perspectives and/or definitions (Paid Prioritization, Managed services, etc.), as well as commonly agreed principles. It was decided not to further discuss on whether or not "End-users” perspective should be considered as an intrinsic part of the "Human Rights” angle and hence be handled under the same cover. Some Org team members volunteered to take the lead on some specific angles with a view to launch the drafting of each specific agreed perspective. The decision to further proceed with one leader for each of the agreed angles is a pragmatic way to ensure that the drafting process is being launched and taken care of. The drafting process itself is open and inclusive as per the nature of the Eurodig process. Finally, it is agreed that each angle/perspective should be no longer than one or two paragraphs.

The members of the org team who have volunteered to take care of some specific topics are: - Luca Belli: Human Rights perspectives - Luca Belli: End-users perspectives - Thomas Grob: Business perspectives - TBD: Technical perspectives - TBD: Commonly agreed definitions (and principles)

The above-mentioned leaderships are subject to a final consensus within the Org Team as soon as the Org Team has reached its extended number of participants following the Org.Team suggestions to ensure full inclusiveness to our work (see #A above)

D. Next steps and Milestones

April 14: Comments (if any) on these minutes April 14: Consensus on text submitted under “D” above April 17: Invitation and (hopefully) inclusion of new Members to the Org Team as per “A” above April 21: Conference Call of the (extended) Org team and Eurodig Secretariat.