Commissioner Reding on openness, interoperability and neutrality
February 14th, 2009
EU Commissioner Viviane Reding (Information Society) gave an interesting speech at the European Parliament on 3 February. In it she set out her own vision of a future Internet:
Indeed, the architectural principles that underlie the Internet we have today, namely the principles of openness, inter-operability and neutrality do not only create an environment that enables innovation in services and applications, more importantly they allow for an environment where users can express themselves freely without discrimination by their service provider. Therefore, those basic design principles need to be preserved.