Relieve the "information superhighway" by establishing "priority lanes" is one of the key measures of the project has unveiled the Minister of the digital economy, Eric Besson, Tuesday, Feb. 8, during a speech to the parliamentary meetings on digital. "The traffic exchanged over the Internet is growing globally at 50% per year.
(...) Faced with the risk of saturation, the question of traffic regulation," said the minister, who spins the metaphor of "superhighways information ". "The associations representing truckers, that is to say, those who occupy a dominant and growing highways, advocating full neutrality vis-à-vis traffic.
But in case of saturation, this will all users who can no longer move forward, including individuals using their cars, including ambulances requiring accelerated traffic. " Net neutrality, the principle that all content flowing equally and without discrimination on the network, is currently the subject of discussion in the United States at European level and in several states of the European Union.
Two main designs of the unwritten principle, applied since the inception of the Internet, are opposed: the advocates of complete neutrality - mostly Web players - and those who want a partial regulation, be it technical (the telecom operators) and legal (the proponents of filtering illegal sites, for example).
Eric Besson takes a clear position for a partial control on technical criteria: while wanting to protect "the right to information and communication" and "freedom of creation and innovation," the minister believes that operators should be able have the ability to "guarantee a minimum quality of service for priority services", including telephony and IPTV.
In return, Eric Besson proposes to strengthen the powers of the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Posts (ARCEP), Constable Telecom to impose greater transparency to operators on the quality of their services. Tracks already mentioned last week in a preliminary report on parliamentary Net neutrality, which also advocated a strong control of its Web filtering, absent from the discourse of Eric Besson.
THE RETURN OF THE "TAX GOOGLE" But the project of Eric Besson is not limited to the management of the Network: it also refers to its growth, and heavy investments are necessary to avoid congestion. For two years, the various Web players are passing the buck: Internet operators or mobile believe that bandwidth-hungry services (YouTube, DailyMotion ...) shall contribute to financing them, such as consumer associations , suggested that operators pay the price of a chronic under-investment, and that service providers pay the bill.
Between the two, Eric Besson edge: "Some well-known services, like Google or Facebook, are an ever-growing networks, fixed and mobile, without contributing in any way to finance infrastructure or creation. These companies are established in foreign countries pay no tax in France, and at the same time hold positions near monopoly on the French market, "he explains.
A working group be established to consider ways of contributing to Web services "to the deployment of networks and cultural creation." The project is not new: it is an extension of a project, commonly called "Google tax" designed to tax the online advertising - a move against Google, and to a lesser extent Facebook, who pay their taxes outside France for advertisements displayed on computers French.
Following the publication of the report Zelnick on Financing of culture, this line of thinking should lead to a bill in 2011, but faces many legal obstacles: it could indeed be a violation of EU rules on taxation and free competition. Considering that the financing of future networks requires a contribution of Web services, while defending the possibility of a technical regulation of the network, the positions advocated by Mr.
Besson heading in the direction of telecom operators. Faced with the heavyweights of the information superhighway, Mr. Besson would therefore give more power to managers of tolls. 
(...) Faced with the risk of saturation, the question of traffic regulation," said the minister, who spins the metaphor of "superhighways information ". "The associations representing truckers, that is to say, those who occupy a dominant and growing highways, advocating full neutrality vis-à-vis traffic.
But in case of saturation, this will all users who can no longer move forward, including individuals using their cars, including ambulances requiring accelerated traffic. " Net neutrality, the principle that all content flowing equally and without discrimination on the network, is currently the subject of discussion in the United States at European level and in several states of the European Union.
Two main designs of the unwritten principle, applied since the inception of the Internet, are opposed: the advocates of complete neutrality - mostly Web players - and those who want a partial regulation, be it technical (the telecom operators) and legal (the proponents of filtering illegal sites, for example).
Eric Besson takes a clear position for a partial control on technical criteria: while wanting to protect "the right to information and communication" and "freedom of creation and innovation," the minister believes that operators should be able have the ability to "guarantee a minimum quality of service for priority services", including telephony and IPTV.
In return, Eric Besson proposes to strengthen the powers of the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Posts (ARCEP), Constable Telecom to impose greater transparency to operators on the quality of their services. Tracks already mentioned last week in a preliminary report on parliamentary Net neutrality, which also advocated a strong control of its Web filtering, absent from the discourse of Eric Besson.
THE RETURN OF THE "TAX GOOGLE" But the project of Eric Besson is not limited to the management of the Network: it also refers to its growth, and heavy investments are necessary to avoid congestion. For two years, the various Web players are passing the buck: Internet operators or mobile believe that bandwidth-hungry services (YouTube, DailyMotion ...) shall contribute to financing them, such as consumer associations , suggested that operators pay the price of a chronic under-investment, and that service providers pay the bill.
Between the two, Eric Besson edge: "Some well-known services, like Google or Facebook, are an ever-growing networks, fixed and mobile, without contributing in any way to finance infrastructure or creation. These companies are established in foreign countries pay no tax in France, and at the same time hold positions near monopoly on the French market, "he explains.
A working group be established to consider ways of contributing to Web services "to the deployment of networks and cultural creation." The project is not new: it is an extension of a project, commonly called "Google tax" designed to tax the online advertising - a move against Google, and to a lesser extent Facebook, who pay their taxes outside France for advertisements displayed on computers French.
Following the publication of the report Zelnick on Financing of culture, this line of thinking should lead to a bill in 2011, but faces many legal obstacles: it could indeed be a violation of EU rules on taxation and free competition. Considering that the financing of future networks requires a contribution of Web services, while defending the possibility of a technical regulation of the network, the positions advocated by Mr.
Besson heading in the direction of telecom operators. Faced with the heavyweights of the information superhighway, Mr. Besson would therefore give more power to managers of tolls.
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