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Ideas for moving forward: NRENs should work together in consolidating the information available into something that can be used to move towards a common way of treating the data, perhaps involving some other national and international organisations and sharing the best practice examples.
Global TNE policies
Alexander van den Hil, SURFnet
Alexander outlined the TNE issues related to the different policies and demonstrated the need to moving to a position where we all treat the TNE customers the same.
At the very core of it, there are different connection policies, for example, some countries do not allow connecteing institutions that are not financed by the governement, overseas institutions are classed as 'private' (e.g. Spain). In addition, there are political and technological barriers, for example, government restrictions in China (IpV6, firewall). There are also political barriers that we are not going to solve - such as the ban of institutes from abroad in Hungary - those should still be taken into consideration and possible barriers for collaboration should be removed.