Promoting Net Neutrality through multi stakeholder capacity building and dialogue

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Net Neutrality: definitions and generalities of the concept

The different forms of Net Neutrality abuse and how to detect them Net Neutrality issues and networks worldwide(legal, technical and social)

Jul 18, 2014: Hotel LewatAug 08, 2014: Ayaba Hotel Bamenda

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Net Neutrality: definitions and generalities of the concept

The different forms of Net Neutrality abuse and how to detect them Net Neutrality issues and networks worldwide(legal, technical and social)

Introduction & historical background

The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created by Congressional statute to regulate interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories.

Introduction & historical background

The STING from the FCC and the debate on Internet Governance both in the US congress and abroad

FCC wants network owners (Verizons, Comcasts, etc.) to create Internet "fast lanes" for companies that pay them more.

For Internet activists, this directly violated the principle of net neutrality

Introduction & historical background

The Net Neutrality debate has recently come to the forefront of the Internet Governance debate in the US.

Legislations are currently under discussion in the US Congress and other parts of the world

Net neutrality is the idea that any network traffic—movies, web pages, MP3s, pictures—can move from one place (our servers) to any other place (readers' computers phones) without "discrimination."

Definitions and generalities of the concept

Net neutrality is the idea that any network traffic—movies, web pages, MP3s, pictures—can move from one place (our servers) to any other place (readers' computers phones) without "discrimination."

Definitions and generalities of the concept

Definitions and generalities of the concept

Net neutrality (also network neutrality or Internet neutrality) is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, and modes of communication

Wikipedia  

Definitions and generalities of the concept

Network neutrality (or open inter-working) means that you are in control of where you go and what you do online. Companies that provide Internet services should treat all lawful Internet content in a neutral manner. It is the founding principle of the Internet and what allows the Internet to be the largest and most diverse platform for expression in recent history.

source: Internet Society

Definitions and generalities of the concept

Lawful contents

Definitions and generalities of the concept

Fundamentally, net neutrality is about equal access to the Internet.

Definitions and generalities of the concept

1 UNIVERSALITY AND EQUALITY: All humans are born free and equal in dignity and rights, which must be respected, protected and fulfilled in the online environment.

2 RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: The Internet is a space for the promotion, protection and fulfillment of human rights and the advancement of social justice. Everyone has the duty to respect the human rights of all others in the online environment.

3 ACCESSIBILITY: Everyone has an equal right to access and use a secure and open Internet.

4 EXPRESSION AND ASSOCIATION: Everyone has the right to seek, receive, and impart information freely on the Internet without censorship or other interference. Everyone also has the right to associate freely through and on the Internet, for social, political, cultural or other purposes.

Definitions and generalities of the concept

5 PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION: Everyone has the right to privacy online. This includes freedom from surveillance, the right to use encryption, and the right to online anonymity. Everyone also has the right to data protection, including control over personal data collection, retention, processing, disposal and disclosure.

6 LIFE, LIBERTY AND SECURITY: The rights to life, liberty, and security must be respected, protected and fulfilled online. These rights must not be infringed upon, or used to infringe other rights, in the online environment.

7 DIVERSITY: Cultural and linguistic diversity on the Internet must be promoted, and technical and policy innovation should be encouraged to facilitate plurality of expression.

Definitions and generalities of the concept

LOI N°2010/013 DU 21 DECEMBRE 2010 REGISSANT LES COMMUNICATIONS ELECTRONIQUES AU CAMEROUN

Article 36

Cameroon law on electronic communication: Net Neutrality

Definitions and generalities of the conceptLOI N°2010/013 DU 21 DECEMBRE 2010 REGISSANT LES COMMUNICATIONS ELECTRONIQUES AU CAMEROUN

Article 36.- (1) Il est institué par la présente loi, une Agence de Régulation des Télécommunications, ci-après désignée « l'Agence, » dotée de la personnalité juridique, de l’autonomie financière et décisionnelle. (2) L'Agence prévue à l'alinéa 1 ci-dessus assure pour le compte de l’Etat, la régulation, le contrôle et le suivi des activités des opérateurs et exploitants du secteur des Télécommunications et des Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication. Elle veille également au respect du principe d'égalité de traitement des usagers dans toutes les entreprises de communications électroniques.

Definitions and generalities of the conceptLOI N°2010/013 DU 21 DECEMBRE 2010 REGISSANT LES COMMUNICATIONS ELECTRONIQUES AU CAMEROUN

A ce titre, elle a entre autres pour missions : -de veiller à l'application des textes législatifs et réglementaires en matière des Télécommunications et des Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication ; -de s'assurer que l'accès aux réseaux ouverts au public s'effectue dans des conditions objectives, transparentes et non discriminatoires ;

-de garantir une concurrence saine et loyale dans le secteur des Télécommunications et des Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication ;

- de sanctionner les manquements des opérateurs à leurs obligations ainsi que les pratiques anticoncurrentielles ;

Introduction & historical background

Imagine a situation?

The different forms of Net Neutrality abuse and how to detect them

Traffic ShapingAn abuse by some Internet service providers to slow down certain types of traffic, like BitTorrent traffic. Other ISPs slow down their customers’ connections if they download too much data in a month.

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The different forms of Net Neutrality abuse and how to detect them

Traffic ShapingHow to Test if Your ISP is Throttling Your Internet How to Test if Your ISP is Throttling Your Internet ConnectionConnection.

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The  Glasnost project provides web-based tests that can identify whether different types of traffic are being rate-limited (slowed down). For example, run the BitTorrent test and Glasnost will test whether your ISP is slowing down your BitTorrent transfers. Glasnost can also run tests to detect whether Flash video, eMule, Gnutella, Email, HTTP, SSH, or Usenet are being throttled or blocked by your ISP. Each test takes about eight minutes to run.

The different forms of Net Neutrality abuse and how to detect them

Traffic ShapingHow to Test if Your ISP is Throttling Your Internet How to Test if Your ISP is Throttling Your Internet ConnectionConnection.I) Open the following link in any browser with java options

to run the test:

http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/glasnost.php

Traffic ShapingHow to Test if Your ISP is Throttling Your Internet How to Test if Your ISP is Throttling Your Internet ConnectionConnection.

http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/glasnost.php

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Select test to run

Test results

Click here for detailed results

The different forms of Net Neutrality abuse and how to detect them

II)Practical work on network probing (shaping)

The different forms of Net Neutrality abuse and how to detect them

Deep packet Inspection (DPI)In a nutshell, deep packet inspection is a type of data processing that looks in detail at the contents of the data being sent, and re-routes it accordingly. It can be used for perfectly innocuous reasons, like making sure that a feed of data is supplying content in the right format, or is free of viruses. Or it can be used for more nefarious motives, like eavesdropping and censorship. Between those two extremes is a grey area of data mining and privacy violation, and it's these aspects that are raising hackles in some parts of the web.

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The different forms of Net Neutrality abuse and how to detect them

Deep packet Inspection (DPI)In a nutshell, deep packet inspection is a type of data processing that looks in detail at the contents of the data being sent, and re-routes it accordingly. It can be used for perfectly innocuous reasons, like making sure that a feed of data is supplying content in the right format, or is free of viruses. Or it can be used for more nefarious motives, like eavesdropping and censorship. Between those two extremes is a grey area of data mining and privacy violation, and it's these aspects that are raising hackles in some parts of the web.

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Computers collect information that you send and receive into "packets", which have a label on them (called a "header") that describes what they are, who they're from and where they're going, just like a letter flowing through a postal network.

Let me show you the header of an email“Complete header” and trace Route

Deep packet Inspection (DPI)How it works

                 NDT (Network Diagnostic Test)Test your connection speed and recieve sophisticated diagnosis of problems limiting speed

NPAD diagnoses a range of common performance issues affecting the last network mile and end-users' systems.

Neubot (the network neutrality bot) is a free-software Internet bot, developed and maintained by the Nexa Center for Internet and Society, that gathers network performance data useful to investigate network neutrality

MobiPerf is an open source application for measuring network performance on mobile platforms. You can measure your network's throughput and latency, as well as other useful network metrics. MobiPerf also performs measurements at regular intervals in the background.

http://www.mobiperf.com.

www.neubot.org

Search neutrality: Net Neutrality

•Dont tell me what to search •Dont tell me where to go and what to do online

Thank you

Excel Asama Internet Society NGL, ICT Expert,Netsquared Ambassador for Africa

#excelasama