[governance] New dimension for Net governance

[Ralf Bendrath]

David Allen wrote:
> The slogan "fight the net" appears several times throughout the
> roadmap.
> 
> Signed off at the highest level, Secretary, US Dept of Defense. 
> Original doc downloadable middle of the news page.
> 
> This lay behind, in some way, arguments presented to the WSIS 
> governance debate?
It was behind some struggling between Russia and the US in WSIS phase one
over the security paragraph. Russia wanted to refer to "military
security", the US did not.
Background: Russia has been pushing in the UN for arms control attempts in 
this field for a number of years, with the US opposing it for obvious reasons.

I wrote a summary of the WSIS negotiations around security leading up to 
PrepCom3a in 2003 for this publication:
http://www.worldsummit2003.de/download_de/Vision_in_process.pdf.

Andrew Rathmell and Alexander Nikitin give good summaries of the wider 
arms control and cyberwar debates in a documentation of a conference we 
did some years ago in Berlin:
http://www.boell.de/downloads/medien/DokuNr20.pdf

Ralf
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