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February 09, 2009

A Field Guide to the ICANN Reforms

EU posts online consultation results on "Internet of Things"

Cyber-security for people? Or nations?

Shareholder groups push ISPs for transparency on DPI use

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* A Field Guide to the ICANN Reforms -
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Important changes are taking place in ICANN’s representational
structures. They are the most sweeping changes in ICANN since the
so-called “evolution and reform” process of 2001-2. The new changes
will directly affect opportunities for people to participate in ICANN –
hopefully in a more positive way. Indeed, there are some (potentially)
good things about the planned reforms, such as a more balanced
representation of commercial and noncommercial users and more flexible
working group structures. But there are also serious problems and dangers
in this effort.

That is why the Internet Governance Project is initiating a series of
blogs explaining and analyzing the structural changes underway in ICANN.
If you think reading about this topic is about as appealing as getting a
tetanus shot, we sympathize, and promise to make it as lively and
interesting as possible. At the very least, we guarantee that reading this
unfolding report will be more pleasurable than reading the 23 different
ICANN staff reports, 5-6 Board resolutions, months of Council minutes and
multiple email lists you would have to monitor to piece it all together
for yourself.

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* EU posts online consultation results on "Internet of Things" -
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Europe is very interested in the Internet of the future, having ceded to
the United States so much of the standards and governance of the Internet
of the past. A September 29, 2008 European Union staff working paper,
“Early Challenges to the Internet of Things,” shot some policy
concerns across the bow. How should the IoT be regulated? EU seemed
especially concerned about the apparent linkage between the Object Naming
System (ONS) used by EPC Global (contracting with VeriSign) and the
U.S.-controlled DNS root. Comment upon and responses to this staff paper
are now posted online. If you are interested in the evolution of thinking
about IoT a look through these comments might be rewarding.

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* Cyber-security for people? Or nations? -
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The Internet is organized around “autonomous systems” -- independently
managed networks most of which are privately owned or, if public, managed
at the agency or department level. The current institutional structure for
public governance, on the other hand, is organized around nation-states.

That disjunction encourages some actors to construct Internet security as
a national security issue. Political claims that invoke “national
security” can inflate budgets and provide for more effective political
mobilization within bureaucracies and the political class. A recent report
from a "Commission on Cyberspace Security for the 44th Presidency"
assembled by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a
Washington DC-based think tank with longstanding roots in Cold War
dialogue, exemplifies this problem. Written late in 2008, it urged the
incoming President to proclaim that “cyberspace is a vital asset for the
nation and…the United States will protect it using all instruments of
national power.” This is a fundamentally misguided approach; this post
explains why.

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* Shareholder groups push ISPs for transparency on DPI use -
http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=38031216&f=175425&u=11399282

A coalition of investors have filed shareholder resolutions with 10 major
U.S. Internet service providers, urging their corporate boards to report
on the impact of the companies’ use of deep packet inspection for
Internet network management on the freedom of expression and privacy of
their customers. The effort was organized by the Open Media and
Information Companies initiative (OpenMIC).

A spokesperson for one of the investor groups, Farnum Brown of Trillium
Asset Management, said: "These companies have responded to the challenges
of managing the Internet in a patchwork, ad hoc fashion. In so doing
they've failed to notice the profound social policy issues they've
unwittingly engaged. Americans are concerned about how their use of the
Internet is monitored. They're concerned about whether their privacy and
freedom of expression are respected by the companies that manage the
Internet. We as shareholders believe it is in these companies' best
business interests to respond to those concerns."

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