[governance] Who Protects the Internet?

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

All,

  I guess the IGF and the UN weren't even a consideration?

  Of course this person and article demonstrates how misinformed
they really are.  One thing is for sure, the ITU and ICANN are
not protecting the Internet very well if at all...

See:
TechCrunch has an article from an interview with
General Kevin Chilton, US STRATCOM commander and
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/02/who-protects-the-internet/
the head of all military cyber warfare. Who protects us? 'Basically no
one. At most, a number of loose confederations of computer scientists
and engineers who seek to devise better protocols and practices
unincorporated groups like the Internet Engineering Task Force and the
North American Network Operators Group. But the fact remains that
no one really owns security online, which leads to gated communities
with firewalls a highly unreliable and wasteful way to try to assure
security.

Regards,

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