Working Together to Improve the Internet - BITAG Starts to Make Good on Its Promise

[Commentary] This week, the Broadband Internet Technology Advisory Group (BITAG), released a report offering several solutions to speed IPv6 adoption.

The suggestions include limiting the duration of the use of DNS whitelisting, being open and transparent about whitelisting policies, and using primarily quantitative data to determine which sites are whitelisted, to minimize any impression of discrimination in the decision-making process. It sounds unremarkable: A problem was identified, an advisory group formulated suggestions, and a report was released. What is remarkable is that this group exists at all. This isn't just a bunch of armchair observers proposing solutions that make sense from a policy perspective; these are actual engineers from different sectors of the communications industry, from academia and from the advocacy community coming together to determine, from a technical perspective, the best solution to pressing technological problems that affect how the Internet operates and the user experience on the Internet. The Internet and broadband industry has never seen anything like this.