Re: [DC3] RES: IGF Paper on Policy Options for Connecting and Enabling the Next Billion

I’m not sure how to provide incremental feedback. I agree that the business models of telecom are a problem. But we need to be aware of implicitly accepting the business model. “Spectrum” is not a thing. It’s like saying the color blue is scarce. The perceived scarcity is an artifact of a business model which is based owners excluding others. It is like the days when there was a scarcity of purple and only royalty could wear purple clothes. What we had was a shortage of certain dye and thus the ability to control “purple” but once chemists find alternatives the shortage vanished. Today we have a shortage due to a telecom business model based on requiring an exclusive path for each connection be it a wire or radio frequency. Thus the strange concept of owning frequencies like owning the letter “e”. That concept does not exist in the Internet’s packets because intermediaries do not know the meaning or purpose of any given packet. Thus we get inherent sharing of the common facilities. One reason that this is not obvious is that we can repurpose existing facilities by tunneling through them. There is some acknowledgement of this in describing how people share an “Internet signal” but what does “signal” mean? For that matter what is “broadband”. What are the key concepts that make the Internet different from the traditional telecom narrative? We need to establish a new narrative. From: dc3-bounces(a)listas.altermundi.net [mailto:dc3-bounces@listas.altermundi.net] On Behalf Of Instituto Bem Estar Brasil Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2016 05:56 To: 'Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity' &lt;dc3(a)listas.altermundi.net&gt; Subject: [DC3] RES: IGF Paper on Policy Options for Connecting and Enabling the Next Billion In the phase I, I sent this proposal and it is important to approach the topic to connect the next billion to national broadband plans and digital cities as a policy to create a public (unbundled and shared) infrastructure to fulfill the needs of the information society. https://www.intgovforum.org/cms/cnb-contribs/details/31/7064/cnb-list-of-con tributions-mr Thanks Luca… ________________________________ Marcelo Saldanha Movimento de Espectro Livre / Movimento de Redes Livres Cel/Telgram/Whatsapp: 22-98842.0482 Skype : marcelo_secante ________________________________ No campo das ideias, o limite é sonhar o impossível e no campo das realizações, basta perseverar. De: dc3-bounces(a)listas.altermundi.net <mailto:dc3-bounces@listas.altermundi.net> [mailto:dc3-bounces@listas.altermundi.net] Em nome de Luca Belli Enviada em: sexta-feira, 16 de dezembro de 2016 16:50 Para: Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity Assunto: [DC3] IGF Paper on Policy Options for Connecting and Enabling the Next Billion Hi all, FYI, it is still possible to provide feedback to the IGF paper on Policy Options for Connecting and Enabling the Next Billion Here is the part on "access" that includes several paragraphs on CNs https://www.intgovforum.org/review/cenb/part-a-access-and-the-sdgs/ Best