[cooperation-wg] IP Interconnection – expertise wanted - providing information to the European Institutions

And this is ETNO's view:

http://www.etno.eu

Gordon

On 10 Dec, 2013, at 21:09, Patrik Fältström <paf at frobbit.se> wrote:

> On 9 dec 2013, at 13:21, Alain Van Gaever <avangaev at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I believe it is worthwhile to engage with the European Institutions to provide expertise on IP Interconnection. (see also background below).  Who would be the technical experts available to explain to a non-tech audience the technical & business model of Internet Exchange Points, including on how the European model differs from the US one?
> 
> There is a larger issue here, and that is that we have three categories of people:
> 
> - The ones that understand how Internet works, and based the world view on it
> 
> - The ones that do not understand how the Internet work, and continue to apply traditional connection oriented thinking on packet based networks
> 
> - The ones that understand how Internet works, and [because of this] continue to apply traditional connection oriented thinking on packet based networks
> 
>> Also there seems to be a concern that the lack of “assured service quality” on IP interconnections might actually prevent the introduction of pan-European health services and video-conferencing.  
> 
> See above.
> 
>   Patrik
>