[kictanet] Day 4 of 10:- IG Discussions, Internet Security.

[John Walubengo]

Morning all,

Looks like very little response on yesterday's topic...where's Waudo formerly WGIG member?  Nway, today's IG theme is the one with the most consensus across all stakeholders.  The fact that the internet is becoming a place to place to work, live, pray or play is widely acknowledged and hence the consensus on the need to protect it.

The global and borderless nature of the Internet means that a secure internet needs a concerted global effort as earlier mentioned by Brian.  A very secure US-territoial Internet is of no use if for example the Africa-territorial Internet is insecure since phising attacks, viruses, spam, eFrauds and other destabilizing conditions can be launched from there. Spam for example is known to constitute over 60% of email traffic on the Internet, which is a fairly significant chunk of Internet Bandwidth and Server Processing power going to waste.

The main internet security debate that cross-cuts into legal/social baskets often centers around:
I)	How the Internet Protocol (IP) could be improved so as to trace-back the origin of the Spammers, eFraudsters, and other criminals.  This may demand implementing IP tools that require all internet services (email, dns, web, etc) to be digitally signed - a feature that would come with some overheads (Mich could again assist here on which overheads these could be)
II)	The Jurisdiction and Arbitration of eCriminals e.g. How would one resolve a case where a Kenyan ISP is hosting an eCommerce site that sells content that is declared illegal in Germany (e.g Hitler's paraphanallia).  Can/Should the Germans shut down the Kenyan business site? 
III)	The delicate balance between pursing security and respecting citizen rights. To what extent should governments go into private emails, phone-logs, etc, in order to safeguard national security? Or what should be the mandatory procedures required of Businesses to safeguard sensitive electronic data of citizens?

Plse feel free to add, clarify, object or modify the above.  More importantly think of what would be an E.African position on the issues.  

As usual, 1day on this theme.

walu.