TRAI announced on Tuesday that it was recommending that the Department of Telecommunications set up a multi-stakeholder body (MSB) to handle complaints about Net Neutrality and frame guidelines for internet service providers. The body, to be set up as a nonprofit under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 would only have an advisory role, and the ultimate power to punish Net Neutrality violations would rest with the DoT. Net Neutrality is the concept that all data over the internet should be treated the same way, with no selective slowing down, blocking, or discriminatory pricing for different content on the internet. Traffic Management Practices (TMPs) are techniques that internet providers use to manage how their bandwidth is used, for example, by slowing down speeds for users when there is congestion (too much data with too little capacity). Unreasonable TMPs, like slowing down certain websites, violate Net Neutrality. Reasonable TMPs, like slowing down traffic for everyone for just as long as necessary, don't. Background of these recommendations: This consultation follows a series of Net Neutrality recommendations in 2018, which the DoT largely accepted, and sent back to TRAI with a request for further clarity on two issues: what exactly unreasonable traffic management practices (TMPs), which violate Net Neutrality, constitute, and what role and shape the committee on Net Neutrality should have. Below is our coverage of this consultation process. What the TRAI has recommended A multistakeholder body: The DoT will create the multi-stakeholder body, if it accepts TRAI's recommendations, and and then invite…
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