What has happened since 2009 to this date? We repeat this session, and we are not going to repeat the same things we agreed last year. We have discussed a number of principles that most of the experts, the business, the civil society, the regulators could agree upon, which mention transparency as the first one, which mention the nondiscrimination as in the origin, the type of application, and so on. And ultimately, the concerns were freedom of choice. The concerns, however, of most of the users in the civil society was what happens is the operators decide to prioritize package and manage the traffic based on business needs, and in that sense, give priority to certain partner companies and give less priority, slow down the traffic, or even ban the traffic of someone else. To come to some quality of service, to fight with congestion, latency, which we will hear later on. And that's something we cannot stand when we have the videos right? And the traffic has been managed. If you have a video that you stream in real-time and you have a delay, then you will have some kind of cuts. We did agree that not all packages on the network can be equal effectively, simply because - I'll use one of the analogy our colleague, Ginger, uses, when you send an email, it can be late for five seconds or five milliseconds, and you won't really notice. Besides that, we did agree on certain things, I believe. The background of this discussion, when it comes to the IGF, was in 2008 in Hyderabad, when we did the first joint session, then we did the next one last year in Sharm El Sheikh, the results of this debate or at least what we had in Sharm El Sheikh, rather the conclusion we could make, was that the understanding that some people might think open Internet and openness is better than net neutrality. We are going to try not to focus on the term this time but rather on what it means to all of us and what might be some of the aspects. Now, there are a lot of debates about what it means, what it stands for, is it the right term. Basically, the workshop came as a result of a continuous cooperation between the Foundation and technology policies on discussions about network neutrality. Welcome to the workshop on Managing the Network, as the title says in the programme. > VLADIMIR RADUNOVIC: Good afternoon, everyone. It is posted as an aid to understanding the proceedings at the session, but should not be treated as an authoritative record. Although it is largely accurate, in some cases it may be incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors.
Note: The following is the output of the real-time captioning taken during Fifth Meeting of the IGF, in Vilnius.
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