[kictanet] [Fwd: [AfrICANN-discuss] Internet Governance: ICANN, Security And Nation States]
waudo siganga
emailsignet at mailcan.com
Thu Feb 14 15:22:42 EAT 2008
I concur with your suggestions Njeri. It's unfortunate to lose
hosting the ICANN meeting in November but let's try and make the
best of it.
Kind Regards,
Waudo
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:59:52 +0300, "Njeri Rionge" <njeri.rionge at igniteco
nsulting.co.ke> said:
Colleagues,
Kenya needs to get the decisions around the National Coalition
or whatever the solution agreed upon as soon as possible.
ICANN is limited on planning time as regards managing the
possible insecurity of holding a meeting in a location where
security is a concern for the larger internet community. In
fact this should be said the other way, we cannot (ICANN) risk
having a meeting in a location where the internet community
will not attend, due to the current status which today seems
not clear since the media itself has now been quiet on the
possible security issue, although indicates a possible forward
improvement which is not indicative of stability etc. ICANN
public meetings are very critical in engaging participants
from an Internationalization perspective. Therefore, the
decision for the cancellation was based on the turn of events
that took place in Kenyan.
So, like Alice I am hopeful that we can at list host the 10th
Anniversary Internet party which can possibly be held away
from the actual ICANN conference and broadcasted to the rest
of the world from Kenya, although they are no guarantees. This
is harder to do and in fact affects budgets etc.
This said, the party was all planned for the Kenya meeting
this November 2008. Which currently has been scheduled to
happen in another unannounced location. I am hoping that a
country in the Sub Sahara will put in a bid quickly enough,
otherwise we will hold the meeting in a location that has
already held this meeting before....
Njeri,
On 2/5/08 8:35 AM, "alice" <alice at apc.org> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Despite our current troubles we still hope that ICANN will
choose Kenya
> to celebrate its birthday at the ICANN Africa meeting
scheduled for
> November 2008.
> Note dates for this years IGF have changed. Now taking place
in December.
>
> alice
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Internet Governance: ICANN,
Security And
> Nation States
> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 20:48:23 +0100
> From: Anne-Rachel Inné <annerachel at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: africann at afrinic.net
> To: africann at afrinic.net
>
>
>
> Intellectual Property Watch
>
>
> 28 January 2008
>
>
> Internet Governance: ICANN, Security And Nation States
>
> By Monika Ermert for /Intellectual Property Watch/
> The future of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
and Numbers
> (ICANN) will remain an important topic in Internet
governance in 2008,
> the tenth anniversary of the private global coordination
body for
> Internet addresses and domain names.
>
> Yet Internet governance experts also expect security in its
different
> facets to be on the rise in Internet governance debates and
point to the
> further growing interest of nation states in exercising
their sovereign
> governance rights in cyberspace. And it is increasingly the
case that
> governance of the Internet can affect access to online
content.
>
> The Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
> [1]<http://www.intgovforum.org/index.htm> organised by the
United Nations -
> which in December will hold its third gathering in New Delhi
- likely
> will see more issues related to cybercriminality, anonymity
and privacy,
> said Jeanette Hofmann, researcher at the Centre for Analysis
of Risk and
> Regulation at the London School of Economics, and at the
> Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, and member
of the IGF
> Advisory Group.
>
> New ICANN Board Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush announced a
"busy year"
>
[2]<http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-03jan08.ht
m> and a
> "birthday party" to take place at the annual meeting of
ICANN, which
> will be held not in the United States but in Africa in
November 2008.
> The location for the birthday party may be seen as a small
symbol for
> ICANN's emphasis on its declared internationality. It has
been the
> United States' privileged position in ICANN and root server
oversight
> that gave the primary original impulse for the Internet
governance
> debate that has evolved so much over the past few years.
>
> Weakening US Influence over Internet?
>
> More and more governments have called for change in the
oversight
> structure for this tiny yet core part of the Internet and
will call for
> that again in the newly launched consultation of the US
Commerce
> Department National Telecommunications and Information
Administration
> (NTIA) on "The Continued Transition of the Technical
Coordination and
> Management of the Internet's Domain Name and Addressing
System."
>
> The consultation (deadline for statements 15 February) is
part of the
> midterm review of the "Joint Project Agreement (JPA)" - the
current
> agreement that binds ICANN to US government oversight - and
may allow
> the full privatisation of domain name system (DNS)
coordination after 2009.
>
> ICANN posted its comment to the NTIA in January, declaring:
"The JPA is
> not longer necessary. Concluding it is the next step in
transition of
> the coordination of the domain name system to the private
sector."
>
> ICANN's Board wrote to NTIA official Suzanne Sene and said
the JPA had
> been a necessary instrument in ICANN's formative years. "But
now," the
> board said, "the JPA contributes to a misperception that the
DNS is
> managed and overseen on a daily basis by the US government.
Ending the
> JPA will provide long-term stability and security for a
model that
> works." The Board underlined that the JPA would not affect
the Internet
> Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) contract that allows the
US
> administration to check on changes in the root zone, the
heart of the DNS.
>
> The incoming US administration could withdraw from ICANN
oversight, yet
> control over changes in the root zone, where vital
information on the
> Internet address system is kept, might be too sensitive for
any US
> administration. In fact, the US keeps arguing that it has to
ensure the
> stability and security of the system that underlies a
billion-dollar
> economy and has long become a key critical infrastructure.
>
> "The whole issue of security is drawing more and more
attention, not
> only from nation states, but also from civil society," said
Hofmann. The
> relationship between surveillance and privacy, data
protection and
> transparency remains to be clearly worked out, she added.
Identity
> management and authentication mechanisms rose much higher on
the
> Internet governance agenda last year, and are expected to
continue to do
> so, Hofmann said.
>
> Fight for IP Rights
>
> Intellectual property issues are in some aspects also
intermingled with
> security. Whether the registries for country-code domains
(such as .uk
> for the United Kingdom) should be granted special rights
over new
> country-code-oriented top-level domain address zones, and be
able to ask
> to be allocated the right to manage these zones via a fast
track
> procedure, is one of ICANN's questions in this regard.
Observers warn
> against possible domain islands under strict state control.
>
> At least some observers have followed anxiously developments
in Russia
> where some in the administration have been reported to have
shown
> interest in walling off the "Russian Internet." ICANN has
accepted that
> there is a strong demand for ccTLDs in native scripts from a
number of
> countries like China and several Arabic states and a special
working
> group has started talks about the possible fast track
procedure. But
> ICANN Chair Dengate Thrush spoke of a single procedure for
all new
> top-level domains coming up. The introduction of new TLDs is
a major
> issue for ICANN this year.
>
> Meanwhile, the longstanding fight over how personal data of
individual
> domain name holders should be published in the so-called
Whois databases
> of domain name registries and registrars might calm down,
Hofmann said.
> ICANN staff finalised the procedure for dealing with
exemptions for
> registries and registrars from jurisdictions with strong
privacy
> regulation. Even if the United States keeps pushing for open
Whois,
> registries and registrars from other countries can point to
the need to
> adhere to their own national laws.
>
> Yet according to a representative for the registrars in
ICANN's Generic
> Name Supporting Council it is not that easy at all. It was
all but clear
> what registries and registrars had to present to be eligible
for the
> exemptions as the procedure reads that only a lawsuit or
administrative
> procedure against them allowed to apply for exceptional
treatment.
>
> Also, settlements of disputes over ownership of domain names
will
> continue to be important at ICANN and at the World
Intellectual Property
> Organization.
>
> Debate over Governance Structure
>
> Changes may also come in 2008 to the institutional structure
of Internet
> governance debates, Hofmann said. While the IGF was
established as a
> focal point for the wider Internet governance debate - and
ICANN will be
> kept under observation - she felt that there was a shift of
a lot of
> discussion to intergovernmental institutions, back from
self-governing
> bodies like the Internet Engineering Task Force (a peer
standardisation
> body for all Internet protocol-related standards) to the UN
> International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The ITU has,
for example,
> become more involved in security issues, last year
announcing a global
> cybersecurity agenda
[3]<http://www.itu.int/osg/csd/cybersecurity/gca/>
> after years of rivalry with ICANN.
>
> More structural manoeuvring on who does what in Internet
governance is
> expected this year, according to Wolfgang Kleinwächter,
special advisor
> to the IGF Chair Nitin Desai. The Organisation for Economic
Cooperation
> and Development (OECD) has invited UN General Secretary Ban
Ki-Moon to
> give a keynote at its June meeting on the "Future of the
Internet
> Economy"
>
[4]<http://www.oecd.org/site/0,3407,en_21571361_38415463_1_1_1
_1_1,00.html>,
> and Kleinwächter said this could be used by Ban for
positioning of the
> UN in Internet governance.
>
> /Monika Ermert may be reached at info at ip-watch.ch
> [5]<mailto:info at ip-watch.ch>./
>
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