During a summit on internet neutrality, Communications Minister Ed Vaizey said it is important to ensure that the Internet remains an open, innovative and competitive place as the internet traffic is growing at a fast rate.
Sir Tim has agreed to help the Broadband Stakeholder Group on recently published transparency document that it includes the rights of consumers and business "to connect to whomever they wanted on the Internet without discrimination", a statement from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport said.
"While transparency about traffic management policy is a good thing, best practices should also include the neutrality of the net," The Telegraph quoted him, as saying.
He added: "The web has grown so fast precisely because we have had two independent markets, one for connectivity, and the other for content and applications."
The new move is the Government's attempt to draw a line under a row caused after a speech Vaizey made last year was interpreted as backing away from the popular concept of net neutrality.
Later, he said that he had always been "at one" with Sir Tim, while believing that the industry should be able to self-regulate.
Vaizey said: "It is good to see that industry has taken the lead on agreeing greater transparency for their traffic management policies."
He further said that policies should have three principles. The first is users should have access all legal content. Second, there should be no discrimination against content providers on the basis of commercial rivalry and finally traffic management policies must be transparent.
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