Comment made by Jari Arkko at the NetMundial Internet Conference, Sao Paulo, Brazil, April 24, 2014. My name is Jari Arkko, and I am the chair of the IETF. Today I am making a personal comment, however, and not representing IETF opinion. Although of course many of the concepts in the draft document are ones that we would probably be happy with, such as multistakeholder processes, open standards, and so on. But my comment today is on the topic of permissionless innovation. I noticed that it had drawn many comments, particularly around the relationship of this concept to copyright. As someone who cares a lot about permissionless innovation, I wanted to highlight what the context of this concept is. It is about our ability to create new technology or applications on the Internet, without having to ask for a permission from your government, operator, computer vendor, or even a standards body such as the IETF. For instance, the end-to-end argument is about applications not being restricted by nodes in the network. If you had to wait for that, it could take years. But while this accelerates innovation, of course it does not mean you can ignore laws, for instance. That is not what we mean with the concept. I personally believe this openness, permissionless innovation has been the key reason why the Internet has brought us the benefits it has. It is important that this continues also in the future.