> 
> On 23 Oct 2019, at 22:04, Michael Richardson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> My high-level take (which I haven't managed to formulate) is that we must
> ask/counsel that in the different connection points, what the expected
> ownership of liability is. Maybe that's a "US"-centric point of view, so my
> understanding is the European view would ask: "who does the regulator fine”.

Dear colleagues,

Just to say thank you for all the positive responses I received both here on 
list, as well as In private conversations, much appreciated. I also would like 
to thank those who have made comments to the contents of the draft, making 
suggestions towards a possible response.

Partially responding to Michael’s question above and some other things raised 
over the course of last week. Let me try and clarify a few points.

First towards the process, me and my colleagues are of course available to help 
with the drafting, serving in our role as secretariat. I’m also happy to chime 
in on this list with some on-the-fly editing or too summarise responses, if the 
community appreciates that. But of course, as explained in my presentation, we 
need some clear guidance from the community on the contents to start this 
drafting process.

To Micheal’s question and some other comments regarding the expected outcome. I 
don’t think at this stage BEREC is aiming to get a single solution, the draft 
lists a few different options and I expect that most will remain in the final 
version. My current assessment is that they are mostly seeking feedback on the 
rationale for the different scenarios and the criteria under which diversions 
from a particular ruleset are allowed.

I don’t feel this is about “who to fine?”, obviously in the end this is about 
regulation and there might be repercussions for entities that are found in 
breach of the law. However this is not in BEREC’s mandate at the moment. The 
aim for this process, and BEREC’s role here, is really to create some 
consistency in interpretation of this directive and the resulting legislation, 
also in how to resolve conflicts with other texts. Especially since it rubs 
against some other directives, most importantly the net neutrality one, which 
might be a source of conflict where one directive says A and the other says B.

The EECC in this context I think is a bit more loosely defined than the net 
neutrality guidelines, which appear a bit less open to interpretation. At the 
same time, the current draft guidelines on the NTP to seem to take the account 
the “technical realities” a bit more, where it tries to identify reasons why 
diversions would be allowed.

Hope this clarifies and looking forward to your feedback on the text.

Regards,

MarcoH
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