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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Rui</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sorry for answering your mail so
lately.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you'd be a little more complete you'd reported
my comments on this paramount issue : ITU as the WSIS process coordinator
is closed for CS (Who is speaking of "multi-stakeholderism" here ?)
! You can listen to them on the meeting records that are displayed on the
EuroDig website. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Because during this session, I also made a proposal
for ITU to be reformed and asked Members of the European Parliament to put this
issue on the future agendas (Administrative Council, Plenipotentiary Conference
in 2010, ...) of the ITU, whose members are i.a. the EU and all European
countries. Moreover, I proposed Bill Drake to collaborate with him (and others
if there are) for drafting some guidelines in that sense and submit/discuss
them with the European representatives at ITU meetings before they attend
them.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>All the best</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jean-Louis Fullsack</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT></DIV>
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<A title=correia.rui@gmail.com href="mailto:correia.rui@gmail.com">Rui
Correia</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=governance@lists.cpsr.org
href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:43
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [governance] International
Telecommunication Union criticised for its role in internet snooping</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<P class=news_datum>27.10.2008 13:35</P>
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<H1>International Telecommunication Union criticised for its role in internet
snooping</H1>
<P>At EuroDIG, the first <A href="http://www.eurodig.org/" target=_blank
rel=external>European Dialogue on Internet Governance</A>, the scientists and
experts of the Council of Europe have sharply criticised the <A
href="http://www.itu.int/net/home/index.aspx" target=_blank
rel=external>International Telecommunication Union</A> (ITU) for acting behind
closed doors in its initiatives towards cybersecurity standardization. <A
href="http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/forum/intgov04/bios/delachapelle-bio.html"
target=_blank rel=external>Bertrand de la Chapelle</A>, godfather of the first
EuroDIG on behalf of the French government, said EuroDIG should tell the ITU
to allow all interest groups to participate in discussing new technology
standards. The recent meeting in Strasbourg emphasized the idea of cooperation
between governments, the industry and users as one of the central points to be
presented at the UN <A href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/" target=_blank
rel=external>Internet Governance Forum</A> in Hyderabad.</P>
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<P>Just recently, the ITU's work on standards for <A
href="http://www.heise-online.co.uk/networks/ITU-discussing-enhanced-tracing-of-IP-addresses--/news/111532"
target=_blank rel=external>back-tracing IP addresses</A> caused something of a
furore. Yet, said <A
href="http://graduateinstitute.ch/corporate/drake_en.html" target=_blank
rel=external>Bill Drake</A>, a scientist at the <A
href="http://graduateinstitute.ch/cig" target=_blank rel=external>Center for
International Governance</A> at the Graduate School in Geneva, this work was
only a tiny part of the work being done in the sensitive area of IT security.
He warned that China, Russia and the USA could become the new axis of evil,
pushing forward the integration of new ways of snooping on the internet. There
was in his view an ambitious agenda extending beyond technical questions all
the way up to legal regulations to counter cybercrime.</P>
<P>If you had access to the documents, Drake said, you could see everything
that was going on, but the ITU was not an open organisation. Drake's criticism
was echoed by other representatives of non-governmental organisations,
complaining that draft standards in domains that were of great significance
for all users, such as identity management, were not being made available to
the public or to interested circles. Drake warned that ITU member countries
and its member firms might thus be setting the agenda for the ways and means
in which the internet could be used in future. When he mentioned possible
problems with the work of the ITU to non-governmental organisations, he said,
they dismissed the ITU as a powerless "dinosaur". But he recommended by
contrast that European governments and organizations should make a clear
demand for more transparency from the ITU. If Europe did not do this, he
stressed, neither the USA, Russia, nor China could be expected to do so.</P>
<P>Thomas Schneider of the Swiss Office for Communications pointed out that,
during the last general meeting of the ITU, the so called Plenipotentiary
Conference of the Member Countries, a series of European countries had
insisted, jointly with Switzerland, on the ITU experimentally allowing public
access to the technology documents. The ITU had now carried out a series of
consultations, he said, but each time only a handful of experts had spoken up.
If the Europeans did not get involved in this process, it was to some extent
their problem.</P>
<P>Alexander Seger, head of the Council of Europe's Division of Economic
Crime, expressed further criticism of the ITU. Up to a year ago, he said, the
experts of the Council of Europe had worked together quite well with the ITU
as the organisation commissioned with following up on the <A
href="http://www.itu.int/wsis/index.html" target=_blank rel=external>World
Summit on the Information Society</A>. But, ever since the ITU had published
its cybersecurity agenda, there had been enormous problems with such
cooperation. Seger demanded that the ITU return to its role as an organizer of
the process. The Council of Europe is also concentrating heavily on the topic
of security as a custodian of the <A
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybercrime_Convention" target=_blank
rel=external>Cybercrime Convention</A>.</P>
<P><EM>See also:</EM></P>
<UL>
<LI><A
href="http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/EU-to-take-action-against-cyberbullying-and-cybergrooming--/111757"
target=_blank rel=external>EU to take action against "cyberbullying" and
"cybergrooming"</A> </LI></UL>(<EM>Monika Ermert</EM>) <SPAN
class=ISI_IGNORE>(<A href="mailto:jk@ct.heise.de">jk</A>/c't)</SPAN> <BR
clear=all><BR>--
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