uploading a couple of files that give you a primer about some of the issues on net neutrality, including the basic question: what is it? there are many part-definitions of net neutrality, and the activist needs to understand the various definitions to work with this intelligently. There are two very specialized vocabularies here -- the technological and the legal -- these need to be understood, and then translated into a frame that people can understand.

Eli Noam article on NetNeutrality - identifies some of the definitional problems - embedded in this article is a link to an earlier Noam article regarding the demise of the common carrier system - Noam's solution begs the question, IMHO, but essentially identifies some of the problems. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/acf14410-3776-11db-bc01-0000779e2340.html

Congressional testimony on net neutrality - including Vint Cerf and Larry Lessig testimony

ACLU Brief in the Brand X case, which decided that cable modems were not telecommunications or "common carrier" devices - the Supreme Court essentially decided against the ACLU position, allowing s the cable owner of the pipe to control who uses the pipe -

Snowe Dorgan - proposed Net Neut legislation

two reviews of Lessig's book "Future of Ideas" (one from Nation and one from Salon "neutrality theology") - I see Lessig coming closer and closer to identifying the telcos as the biggest threat to Internet neutrality

I also want to upload the following:

FCC decision in DSL case, essentially expanding the bad result in Brand X from cable modems to DSL modems, which clears the way for AT&T and Verizon to decide which modems they will allow to work on their systems

Tim Wu and Larry Lessig letter re net neutrality in cable area - addresses some of the technical issues around net neut, and why some degree if discrimination between packets might be acceptable for Quality of Service issues.