Wow, has 2018 flown by! Hopefully, you're in a restful and reflective holiday mood. We want to look back at the top developments in Internet governance we covered, and offer some thoughts on issues that are heating up and what will be happening in the coming year. In the past...
December 14 2018 will be remembered for striking news about a new bill submitted to Russia’s State Duma: "On amendments to some legislative acts of the Russian Federation." Behind the meaningless title there are a bunch of amendments to the laws 126-FZ "On communications," and 149-FZ "On information." According to the...
David Clark’s new book, Designing an Internet (MIT Press, 2018) is an important new contribution to Internet governance studies. For the past 35 years, Clark been one of the deepest thinkers about the Internet’s architecture and design principles. He is also one of the few computer scientists to willingly stray into public...
A recent paper in the journal Military Cyber Affairs, co-authored by researchers at U.S. Naval War College and Tel Aviv University, details how four BGP hijacks occurring between 2016-2017 took place, re-routing potentially sensitive Internet traffic through China. It made the rounds, promoted by some threat intelligence company and cybersecurity...
The Internet Governance Forum (IGF), held under the auspices of the United Nations, is mandated to facilitate discussions of global Internet governance stakeholders through its annual meetings and other activities. The Internet Governance Project has been involved with IGF since its inception and found it for many years a relevant...
On the day before the American Thanksgiving holiday, ICANN released the initial report of the policy development process that is trying to reform Whois. Jokes about turkeys were probably inevitable, but to the EPDP members who have spent months of practically non-stop work on it (including two IGP partners), that sign of progress was something to...
Next week comes the UN Internet Governance Forum, and alongside it, the French government’s noble project of a Paris Peace Forum. The conjunction of these events has led to a proliferation of cyber norms declarations. As nice as all these calls for good behavior in cyberspace are, they inspire a sense of...
Over a decade ago one of the key outcomes of the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was the request for the UN to convene a forum to discuss (in a nonbinding fashion) global public policy issues related to Internet governance. The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was...
At the beginning of October, the Observer Research Foundation conducted the 5th CyFy Conference on technology, security and society in New Delhi. The composition of speakers invited to the panels signaled that India is more willing to hear from the western world than to promote its own agenda. However, this...
ICANN's expedited policy development process (EPDP) to make Whois compatible with GDPR is making progress, albeit very slowly. Another round of face to face meetings will be held at ICANN 63 in Barcelona, Spain beginning Saturday October 20. But some participants in the group are becoming uneasy about ICANN CEO...
“In characteristically rigorous fashion, Mueller’s outstanding book punctures the alarmist myth of Internet fragmentation and helps us to understand what is really at stake as nations and other groups vie for power over the Internet.”
