Personal note from Jay Sulzberger: Gale Brewer has begun an extraordinary effort to bring the Net to those in New York City who today cannot afford full Net access. So far the City Council has not yet squarely dealt with the issue of what "access to the Net" means. This larger issue underlies the public debates about "peer to peer", "Net neutrality", and "telecommunications deregulation".
Today my ISP is Panix. My Net machine is a full peer on the Great Net. I have the right and the practical power to send and receive email by any means I choose. I have the right and the practical power to view websites and to run an http server by any means I choose. I have the right and the practical power to use any port I want for any application riding on the standard transport mechanisms and using the atandard protocols of the Net. But neither Verizon nor Time-Warner Cable offer to home users the same rights and powers. When Gale's initiative succeeds, I want that family, which is new to the Net, near Broadway and Halsey in Brooklyn, to be as fully and as fairly Net enabled as I am. This is the battle. And this ISOC-NY meeting is an engagement in the battle. Please join Gale Brewer and ISOC-NY at this meeting. Below is the official ISOC-NY announcement. Jay Sulzberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Corresponding Secretary LXNY LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org <blockquote what="official ISOC-NY announcement"> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:38:38 -0500 From: David Solomonoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ISOC-NY presents NYC Council Member Gail Brewer Please forward as appropriate -- Thanks! David What Price New York City Wireless: The Politics of Technology New York City Council Member Gale Brewer, Chair of the Technology Committee, will be joining the Internet Society of New York, on March 1, to discuss broadband and public access issues in a public forum. Discussion will include pending legislation and an update of policy development and other work being done by the committee. There will be time for Q&A. The event is free, open to the public and the site is fully accessible. March 1, 2006 6:00 - 8:00 p. m. Jefferson Market Branch Library 425 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue), at Tenth Street For additional information on participants see: Internet Society of New York: http://www.isoc-ny.org/ Gale Brewer: http://www.nyccouncil.info/constituent/member_details.cfm?Con_ID=28 Jefferson Market Branch Library (including travel directions): http://www.nypl.org/branch/local/man/jmr.cfm -- David Solomonoff, President Internet Society of New York [EMAIL PROTECTED] isoc-ny.org </blockquote> _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
