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Information Technology News Berners-Lee calls for net neutrality, questions DRM
Information Technology News Berners-Lee calls for net neutrality, questions DRM | Berners-Lee calls for net neutrality, questions DRM |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Monday, 05 March 2007 | |
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"Keeping the web universal, independent of hardware, independent of software, independent of who happens to be your Internet service provider at the moment..." is a core valus of the web, he explained. During his evidence, Berners-Lee repeatedly stressed the importance of maintaining the separation of transport and services. "Non-discriminatory Internet provision is very important to a society based on the World Wide Web... we have to give it a special treatment." Decades ago, it was important to prevent interference with the mail, as that was how the nation functioned. "The important thing is that anything should be able to link to anything." If there was a chance that compromising on net neutrality could interfere with makets and democracy, Berners-Lee said "I would always be erring on the side of keeping the medium to be the blank sheet, of allowing me to connect, if I connect to the Internet, to connect to whoever I want." |
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