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"Network Neutrality Squad" - NNSquad
http://www.nnsquad.org

Recent events such as Comcast's lack of candor regarding their
secretive disruption of BitTorrent protocols, and Verizon's altering
of domain name lookup results to favor their own advertising pages,
are but tip-of-the-iceberg examples of how easily Internet
operations can be altered in ways that may not be immediately
obvious, but that still can have dramatic, distorting, and in some
cases far-reaching negative consequences for the Internet's users.

The Network Neutrality Squad ("NNSquad") is an open-membership,
open-source effort, enlisting the Internet's users to help keep the
Internet's operations fair and unhindered from unreasonable
restrictions.

The project's focus includes detection, analysis, and incident
reporting of any anticompetitive, discriminatory, or other
restrictive actions on the part of Internet service Providers (ISPs)
or affiliated entities, such as the blocking or disruptive
manipulation of applications, protocols, transmissions, or
bandwidth; or other similar behaviors not specifically requested by
their customers.

Other key aspects of the project are discussions, technology
development and deployment, and associated activities -- fostering
cooperation and mutually agreeable methodologies whenever
possible -- aimed at keeping the Internet a maximally unhindered,
useful, competitive, fair, and open environment for the broadest
possible range of applications and services.

We invite individual, commercial, nonprofit, government, and all
other Internet users and stakeholders (including ISPs) to
participate in the Network Neutrality Squad.

Please join the moderated mailing list (choice of immediate
distribution or digest) for project announcements and discussions,
by sending a message (any subject or text) to:

nnsquad-subscribe@nnsquad.org

or by signing up at the mailing list Web page:

http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad

A moderated, interactive discussion and incident reporting forum is
also available for more real-time communications on related topics:

http://forums.pfir.org/main/messages/714/714.html

Questions and comments are welcome at nnsquad-info@nnsquad.org

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