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<font face="sans-serif">Thanks Miguel for the list. Some of these
overlap with IT for Change list in its submission. We have mentioned a
dev agenda in IG in rather more elaborate terms, but I agree, your
wording of the dev agenda should be good enough for a start.<br>
<br>
Submitting for the lists consideration, a couple of more points. If
necessary, shorter and simpler language can be used for each.<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-GB"><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="3">Global Internet traffic flows – in
terms of interconnection systems as well as globally open architecture
of such flows (global net neutrality, also including global policy
frameworks for downstream net neutrality) </font> </p>
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<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-GB"><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="3">Resolving specific cross-border
Internet related issues (content, security, privacy, crime, access to
knowledge, commerce etc) (a Council of Europe expert group is right now
looking into possible new mechanisms for addressing such cross-border
issues)</font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-GB"><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="3">Globally democratic regulation in
public interest of global digital corporations that have huge
monopolies across the globe, and have a defining impact on our emerging
social systems, including in the areas of knowledge, media, market,
politics and culture (due to their immense global power, national
regulations, especially in less powerful countries, have little
leverage over these hegemonic digital corporations)</font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-GB"><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="3">Globally democratic political
supervision of technical governance of Critical Internet Resources,
without replacing/subverting the current governance systems (which
includes domain name systems, IP allocation, root servers, security
systems at the root level etc)</font></p>
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Parminder <br>
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<br>
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On Sunday 05 December 2010 01:30 PM, Miguel Alcaine wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Dear all,
It is convenient to have an answer like the one suggested by Parminder
to the question launched by DESA, but it needs to offer examples:
- Global collaboration - from voluntary to legally binding - in
trans-border procedures needed to combat cyber-crime.
- Universal coverage of countries and territories by CERT and National
Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT)
- Creation of an Internet Charter of Principles, consistent with the
UN Charter, aiming to become origin principles for the distinct term
of services found. (e.g. Brazil example).
- Measurement of the impact of IG on development.
I am sure people on this list are able to add other examples of global
internet related policy issues not being addressed by existing
mechanisms.
Best,
Miguel
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 4:01 AM, parminder <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net"><parminder@itforchange.net></a> wrote:
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Hi All
A specific proposal for the IGC for co-oordinators attention... Also since the new communication from UNDESA asks for 'what global Internet related policy issues are not being addressed by current mechanisms'
Should we add to our EC statement, one line to the effect that
"There are numerous pressing trans-border issues of Internet governance and Internet related policies that require urgent resolution, but are not be addressed by existing mechanisms. We need to examine what institutional mechanisms will be able to address these important Internet related public policy issues in a globally democratic, inclusive and fully-participative manner."
Parminder
On Sunday 05 December 2010 02:20 AM, Ian Peter wrote:
The real issue is that some governments around the world are trying to shut
down an organization that helps whistleblowers publish information.
In the absence of any policy regime covering such internet usage issues,
corporations are bowing to government pressure and/or acting unilaterally to
preserve government secrecy and the way things used to be before the digital
age.
This absence of a policy regime and any universally accepted principles is
one of the internet governance issues we should raise in the current
enquiries.
.
Ian Peter
From: "Carlos A. Afonso" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ca@cafonso.ca"><ca@cafonso.ca></a>
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 18:35:35 -0200
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org"><governance@lists.cpsr.org></a>, Ian Peter <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com"><ian.peter@ianpeter.com></a>
Cc: Lee W McKnight <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lmcknigh@syr.edu"><lmcknigh@syr.edu></a>
Subject: Re: [governance] FW: [IP] Fwd: Wikileaks Domain Revoked?
Yes, and we believe in fairy tales and in Santa Claus. :) I would like
to see in Wikileaks in the near future the exchange of "cables" between
Lieberman and Bezos :)
--c.a.
On 12/04/2010 06:24 PM, Ian Peter wrote:
Sure, sure - and paypal just denied wikileaks donations on policy grounds,
and everydns shut the site because of usage issues after a call from Joe
Liebermann....
From: Lee W McKnight<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lmcknigh@syr.edu"><lmcknigh@syr.edu></a>
Reply-To:<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org"><governance@lists.cpsr.org></a>, Lee W McKnight<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lmcknigh@syr.edu"><lmcknigh@syr.edu></a>
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 14:54:57 -0500
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">"governance@lists.cpsr.org"</a><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org"><governance@lists.cpsr.org></a>
Subject: [governance] FW: [IP] Fwd: Wikileaks Domain Revoked?
Since we're talking Vittorio's holiday shopping...Amazon's denial re their
cessation of service w Wikileaks was not politics but for violating terms of
service, below.
Lee
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From: Dave Farber [<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dave@farber.net">dave@farber.net</a>]
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 4:11 AM
To: ip
Subject: [IP] Fwd: Wikileaks Domain Revoked?
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From: Sam <<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:samwaltz.groups@gmail.com">samwaltz.groups@gmail.com</a><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:samwaltz.groups@gmail.com"><mailto:samwaltz.groups@gmail.com></a>>
Date: December 3, 2010 9:18:23 PM EST
To: Dave Farber IP<<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dave@farber.net">dave@farber.net</a><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dave@farber.net"><mailto:dave@farber.net></a>>
Subject: Wikileaks Domain Revoked?
This may be of interest to the list.
Sam
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mensa.org/user/6020">https://www.mensa.org/user/6020</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2010/dec/03/wikileaks-knocked-off-net-d">http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2010/dec/03/wikileaks-knocked-off-net-d</a>
ns
-everydns
WikiLeaks fights to stay online after US company withdraws domain name
Everydns.net<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://Everydns.net"><http://Everydns.net></a> says attack against leaks site endangered
other
customers' service effectively pushing site off the web
Charles Arthur and Josh Halliday
guardian.co.uk<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://guardian.co.uk"><http://guardian.co.uk></a>, Friday 3 December 2010 07.54 GMT
WikiLeaks was removed from its wikileaks.org<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://wikileaks.org"><http://wikileaks.org></a> address.
Photograph: Joe
Raedle/Getty Images
The US was today accused of opening up a dramatic new front against
WikiLeaks, effectively "killing" its web address just days after
Amazon pulled the site from its servers following political pressure.
The whistleblowers' website went offline for the third time in a week
this morning, in the biggest threat to its online presence yet.
Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate's committee on homeland
security, earlier this week called for any organisation helping
sustain WikiLeaks to "immediately terminate" its relationship with
them.
On Friday morning, WikiLeaks and the cache of secret diplomatic
documents that have proved to be a scourge for governments around the
world were only accessible through a string of digits known as a DNS
address. The site later re-emerged with a Swiss domain,
WikiLeaks.ch<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://WikiLeaks.ch"><http://WikiLeaks.ch></a>.
Julian Assange this morning said the development is an example of the
"privatisation of state censorship" in the US and is a "serious
problem."
"These attacks will not stop our mission, but should be setting off
alarm bells about the rule of law in the United States," he warned.
The California-based internet hosting provider that dropped WikiLeaks
at 3am GMT on Friday (10PM EST Thursday), Everydns, says it did so to
prevent its other 500,000 customers of being affected by the intense
cyber attacks targeted at WikiLeaks.
The site this morning said it had "move[d] to Switzerland", announcing
a new domain name wikileaks.ch<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://wikileaks.ch"><http://wikileaks.ch></a>, with the Swiss
suffix.
However, the
new address still only points to an IP address, suggesting WikiLeaks
has been unable to quickly find a new hosting provider.
The Wikileaks.ch<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://Wikileaks.ch"><http://Wikileaks.ch></a> domain name, which only surfaced on
Friday morning,
is being served by the Swiss Pirate Party. And the routing to it is
still being done by everydns.
Late yesterday evening Tableau Software, a company which published
data visualisations, pulled one of its images picturing the WikiLeaks
diplomatic cables at the request of Senator Lieberman. Writing on the
company's blog, Elissa Fink said: "Our decision to remove the data
from our servers came in response to a public request by Senator Joe
Lieberman, who chairs the Senate Homeland Security Committee, when he
called for organisations hosting WikiLeaks to terminate their
relationship with the website."
Mark Stephens, the London-based lawyer acting on behalf of Assange,
wrote on Twitter after the shutdown: "Pressure appears to have been
applied to close the WikiLeaks domain name."
Andre Rickardsson, an expert on computer security at Sweden's Bitsec
Consulting, told Reuters: "I don't believe for a second that this has
been done by everydns themselves. I think they've been under
pressure," he said, apparently referring to US authorities.
A new Germany-based WikiLeaks domain
wikileaks.dd19.de<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://wikileaks.dd19.de"><http://wikileaks.dd19.de></a> also
appeared on Friday morning, with its data apparently hosted in
California. People have also taken to setting up alternative domain
names that point to the WikiLeaks address. Robin Fenwick, a UK-based
web services director, this morning launched
Wikileeks.org.uk<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://Wikileeks.org.uk"><http://Wikileeks.org.uk></a> a
"joke domain" that points to the WikiLeaks DNS address.
In a statement on its website, the free everydns.net<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://everydns.net"><http://everydns.net></a>
service said that
the "distributed denial of service" (DDOS) attacks by unknown hackers
who are trying to knock WikiLeaks off the net meant that the leaks
site was interfering with the service being provided to other users.
That in turn meant that WikiLeaks had broken
everydns.net<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://everydns.net"><http://everydns.net></a>'s terms of
service, and it cut the site off at 3am GMT on Friday (10PM EST
Thursday).
DNS services translate a website name, such as
guardian.co.uk<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://guardian.co.uk"><http://guardian.co.uk></a>, into
machine-readable "IP quads" in that case 77.91.249.30, so that
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://77.91.249.30">http://77.91.249.30</a> will show the Guardian site. If the DNS fails, the
site is only reachable via IP address but WikiLeaks has not yet
provided one via Twitter or other means.
Everydns.net<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://Everydns.net"><http://Everydns.net></a> said that the attacks which have been
going on all
week, and led the site to temporarily host its services on Amazon's
more resilient EC2 "cloud computing" service "threaten the stability
of the EveryDNS.net<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://EveryDNS.net"><http://EveryDNS.net></a> infrastructure, which enables
access
to almost
500,000 other websites".
WikiLeaks was given 24 hours' notice of the termination, and everydns
said: "Any downtime of the wikileaks.org<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://wikileaks.org"><http://wikileaks.org></a> website has
resulted from its
failure to use another hosted DNS service provider."
The move comes after several days of WikiLeaks coming under a
determined DDOS attack, apparently from hackers friendly to the point
of view of the US government, which has disparaged the site's leaking
of thousands of US diplomatic cables.
US companies have also come under intense political pressure to remove
any connection to, or support for, WikiLeaks. Amazon ended its hosting
of the cables on its EC2 cloud computer service earlier this week, but
last night insisted in a blogpost that its decision was not due to
pressure from Senator Joe Lieberman, who has called for the removal of
the data and who has influenced at least one other US company to
withdraw support for WikiLeaks data.
In a blogpost late on Thursday, Amazon said reports that government
inquiries prompted it to remove the data were "inaccurate".
Amazon said:
"[Amazon Web Services] does not pre-screen its customers, but it does
have terms of service that must be followed. WikiLeaks was not
following them. There were several parts they were violating. For
example, our terms of service state that "you represent and warrant
that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the contentŠ
that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy and
will not cause injury to any person or entity". It's clear that
WikiLeaks doesn't own or otherwise control all the rights to this
classified content. Further, it is not credible that the extraordinary
volume of 250,000 classified documents that WikiLeaks is publishing
could have been carefully redacted in such a way as to ensure that
they weren't putting innocent people in jeopardy."
It noted that:
"When companies or people go about securing and storing large
quantities of data that isn't rightfully theirs, and publishing this
data without ensuring it won't injure others, it's a violation of our
terms of service, and folks need to go operate elsewhere."
But as commentators have pointed out, that stance is contradicted by
the fact that Amazon has previously hosted the "war logs" from
WikiLeaks which contained data about the US wars in Afghanistan and
Iraq.
Connecting to WikiLeaks is presently not possible until it gets a new
DNS service. WikiLeaks itself said on Twitter that the ending of DNS
services was allegedly due to "claimed mass attacks" and called for
further donations to "keep us strong".
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