I just wanted to answer the first few questions on the European Commission’s most recent green paper “on the open internet and net neutrality”. As part of the Neelie Kroes’ Digital Agenda this a crucial issue that more and more people around Europe become aware of. If you’re unfamiliar with why net neutrality matters I recommend watching Jérémie Zimmermann’s introduction at last year’s Chaos Communication Congress (26c3) or reading the dossier and information provided at La Quadrature du Net.
I welcome the European Commission reaching out to the many experts and interested to collect their views on the matter. It does so usually by opening a public consultation process in the form of a green paper allowing everyone to comment on the Commission thoughts and answer some of the questions that the Commission itself will have to answer in a later process, ideally with a concrete proposal. If the Commission really cares about citizens’ involvement it even provides serveral translations of that paper. Not so much recently, unfortunately.