In her UN General Assembly speech denouncing NSA surveillance, Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff said: Information and communications technologies cannot be the new battlefield between States. Time is ripe to create the conditions to prevent cyberspace from being used as a weapon of war, through espionage, sabotage, and attacks against systems...
It's 2004 again. Ideas and proposals for the reform of Internet governance are now flying all over the place, just as they did at the outset of the UN Working Group on Internet Governance. At the recently concluded Seoul Conference on Cyberspace, a memo was circulated calling for the creation of...
The reaction to last weeks announcement from the leaders of the "I* organizations" (ICANN, the RIRs, IETF, IAB, W3C and ISOC) on the future of Internet governance has been overwhelming. Judging from the 90,000+ visits to the IGP blog's brief analysis of the situation, there is a global groundswell of interest...
In Montevideo, Uruguay this week, the Directors of all the major Internet organizations – ICANN, the Internet Engineering Task Force, the Internet Architecture Board, the World Wide Web Consortium, the Internet Society, all five of the regional Internet address registries – turned their back on the US government. With striking...
