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April 17, 2009

Field Guide to ICANN Reforms (Part 4): Results are in on Noncommercial
Stakeholder Group charter proposals <#120b5e6841f71821_0>
GNSO Reform: Analysis of the two NCSG charter proposals<#120b5e6841f71821_1>
Crypto-politics creeps into DNSSEC <#120b5e6841f71821_2>
ICANN gets "securitized" <#120b5e6841f71821_3>
A more detailed look at the proposed Cybersecurity Act of
2009<#120b5e6841f71821_4>
Mueller wins 2009 ITERA Outstanding Researcher Award <#120b5e6841f71821_5>
Upcoming Event: Congressional Seminar on "ICANN & Internet Governance: How
Did We Get Here & Where Are We Heading?" <#120b5e6841f71821_6>
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Field Guide to ICANN Reforms (Part 4): Results are in on Noncommercial
Stakeholder Group charter proposals
<http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=38931252&f=175425&u=11399494>

[Editors Note:* This is the fourth installment in our series looking at the
ongoing ICANN reforms. If you haven't already, be sure to read Part
1<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399494/http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2009/2/6/4083962.html>,
Part 2<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399494/http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2009/2/12/4089601.html>and
Part
3<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399494/http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2009/2/19/4098823.html>
*]

Public comments<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399494/http://forum.icann.org/lists/sg-petitions-charters/>are
in on the charter proposals that will shape the reformed GNSO. The
politics of GNSO reform are now abundantly clear. Noncommercial
organizations and individuals from a surprisingly broad swath of
transnational civil society have participated in ICANN's GNSO reform
proceeding, sending in comments. And virtually all of them are supporting
the Noncommercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG) charter
proposed<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399494/http://gnso.icann.org/en/improvements/ncsg-petition-charter.pdf>by
the NCUC.

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 GNSO Reform: Analysis of the two NCSG charter proposals
<http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=38903996&f=175425&u=11399494>

The impending reform of the Generic Name Supporting Organization
(GNSO)<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399494/http://gnso.icann.org/en/improvements/stakeholder-process-en.htm>at
ICANN, and specifically the approval of a charter for the new
Noncommercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG) is now in full swing. Last month, IP
Justice's and current NCUC Chair, Robin Gross submitted the NCUC's proposed
charter<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399494/http://gnso.icann.org/en/improvements/ncsg-petition-charter.pdf>(and
accompanying executive
summary<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399494/http://gnso.icann.org/en/improvements/executive-summary-ncsg-proposal.pdf>and
chart<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399494/http://gnso.icann.org/en/improvements/ncsg-organization-chart.pdf>)
for the NCSG to the ICANN Board. According to Gross, the proposal was
developed with the input of numerous noncommercial organizations (including
IGP), as well as consultations with ICANN Board members and other
stakeholders. In contrast, a small band of supporters of the censorship
oriented group CP-80<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399494/http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2009/3/17/4125801.html>sought
to upset this consensus effort by submitting a competing charter
proposal. Now IGP's Milton Mueller has submitted
comments<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399494/http://forum.icann.org/lists/sg-petitions-charters/msg00011.html>to
ICANN analyzing the two charter proposals, identifying the
shortcomings
of the CP-80 proposal and addressing their critique of the NCUC proposal.
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 Crypto-politics creeps into DNSSEC
<http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=38787076&f=175425&u=11399494>

While the fight over using cryptography to protect personal communications
was allegedly "won" during the late 1990s, the battle over using it to
protect critical Internet resources is just heating up. News from the recent
IETF in San Francisco<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399494/https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/74/materials.html>and
RANS
conference in Moscow<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399494/http://www.rans.ru/arrangements/conf_secure2009/english/>suggests
that national crypto laws are now complicating efforts to secure
the DNS.

Specifically, supporters of .ru have noted that while they are interested in
deploying DNSSEC, there are legal and operational constraints surrounding
the current crypto specs in the standard (i.e., RSA signature and SHA digest
algorithms) that could make it difficult for Russian based organizations to
deploy the protocol. There are now efforts being made to introduce the
Russian developed GOST family of algorithms into the protocol.

[*Update:* An Internet-Draft<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399494/http://tools.ietf.org/search/draft-dolmatov-dnsext-gost-dnssec-00>on
producing GOST signature and hash algorithms DNSKEY and RRSIG resource
records for use in the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) has
been submitted for adoption by the DNSEXT Working Group.]

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 ICANN gets "securitized"
<http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=38745280&f=175425&u=11399494>

This is no April Fool's joke: here is a bill that is almost a caricature of
what the rest of the world fears about U.S. control of the Internet DNS root
and ICANN. Legislation unveiled
today<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399494/http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=bb7223ef-1d78-4de4-b1d5-4cf54fc38662&Month=4&Year=2009>by
Senate Commerce Chairman John (Jay) Rockefeller and Sen. Olympia
Snowe,
R-Maine, would require a Presidentially appointed cybersecurity advisory
panel to ensure that national security would not be compromised before
approving the renewal or modification of the contract between the U.S.
government and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
According to a summary of the bill, it would "make sure that ICANN does not
succumb to foreign pressure" to end its relationship with the U.S.
government.

ICANN is only one part of a comprehensive and authoritarian approach to
cybersecurity. According to the Center for Democracy and
Technology<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399494/http://www.cdt.org/>,
"The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 would...give the President unfettered power
to shut down Internet traffic in emergencies or disconnect any critical
infrastructure system or network on national security grounds."

Read the proposed Cybersecurity Act of
2009<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399494/http://cdt.org/security/CYBERSEC4.pdf>
.

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 A more detailed look at the proposed Cybersecurity Act of 2009
<http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=38758485&f=175425&u=11399494>

The Rockefeller-Snowe
bill<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399494/http://cdt.org/security/CYBERSEC4.pdf>emerges
from an environment of blind hysteria around cyber-security problems
that has developed in recent months. Section 2 contains 150 lines of silly
hyperventilating that exaggerate the threats - but more importantly,
misconceives the nature of Internet-based threats and the best way to
respond to them. The bill succumbs to the tendency to take a national,
hierarchical and centralized approach to problems that are best met through
the organic evolution of decentralized, flexible, adapative and
transnational, private sector-based cooperative solutions that leverage the
peer production capabilities of the Internet.

Still, it is not as bad as it could have been. The bill does not turn over
cybersecurity responsibilities to the NSA, nor does it completely centralize
authority in a single government agency. Instead, it creates a
multistakeholder Cyber-security Advisory panel appointed by the President.
Here is a section-by-section review of the most outstanding parts of the
proposed law...

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 Mueller wins 2009 ITERA Outstanding Researcher Award
<http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=38931627&f=175425&u=11399494>

Mad props to IGP's Milton Mueller, who has been selected to
receive<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399494/http://ischool.syr.edu/newsroom/news.aspx?recid=658>the
2009 International
Telecommunications Education and Research
Association<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399494/http://www.itera.org/index.php>(ITERA)
Outstanding Research Award. ITERA presents the award to individuals
who have demonstrated excellence in academic research related to the
telecommunications disciplines through publication, peer-review, and
international recognition over time. And also a tip o' the hat to Milton's
colleague, Martha Garcia-Murillo, director of the M.S. in Telecommunications
and Network Management program at Syracuse's iSchool, who cited the founding
of the Internet Governance Project, where "researchers can follow the
discussion and decisions that are made at the international level on
Internet governance," among the many reasons Milton deserved this special
award. Way to go!
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 Upcoming Event: Congressional Seminar on "ICANN & Internet Governance: How
Did We Get Here & Where Are We Heading?"
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IGP's Milton Mueller will be a panelist at a Congressional Seminar, *"ICANN
& Internet Governance: How Did We Get Here & Where Are We Heading?,"* hosted
by the Progress & Freedom
Foundation<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399494/http://pff.org>on
April 24, 2009 from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. in Room 2322 of the
Rayburn
House Office Building in Washington, DC. You can register
here<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399494/http://www.pff.org/events/upcomingevents/042409-ICANN-internet-governance.asp>.

As the Internet has become the backbone of our Digital Age economy, the
issue of "governance" has taken on a new importance. What's next for the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the non-profit
corporation responsible for coordinating administration of the domain name
system? New developments and possible policy implications will be discussed
by a panel of recognized experts, who will cover the history and evolution
of ICANN and debate such topics as the proposal for new top level domains,
domain name system security, and ICANN's future after the expiration of its
Joint Project Agreement/Memorandum of Understanding with the Commerce
Department.

Other panelists include David Johnson (Visiting Professor of Law, Institute
for Information Law and Policy), New York Law School and Mike Roberts
(Internet Technology Policy Consultant and former President and CEO of
ICANN), as well as panel moderator Michael Palage (Adjunct Fellow, The
Progress & Freedom Foundation and former ICANN board member).

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