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February 09, 2009

A Field Guide to the ICANN Reforms <#11f5b38e275384e8_0>
EU posts online consultation results on "Internet of
Things"<#11f5b38e275384e8_1>
Cyber-security for people? Or nations? <#11f5b38e275384e8_2>
Shareholder groups push ISPs for transparency on DPI use<#11f5b38e275384e8_3>
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A Field Guide to the ICANN Reforms
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Important changes are taking place in ICANN's representational structures.
They are the most sweeping changes in ICANN since the so-called "evolution
and reform" process of 2001-2. The new changes will directly affect
opportunities for people to participate in ICANN – hopefully in a more
positive way. Indeed, there are some (potentially) good things about the
planned reforms, such as a more balanced representation of commercial and
noncommercial users and more flexible working group structures. But there
are also serious problems and dangers in this effort.

That is why the Internet Governance Project is initiating a series of blogs
explaining and analyzing the structural changes underway in ICANN. If you
think reading about this topic is about as appealing as getting a tetanus
shot, we sympathize, and promise to make it as lively and interesting as
possible. At the very least, we guarantee that reading this unfolding report
will be more pleasurable than reading the 23 different ICANN staff reports,
5-6 Board resolutions, months of Council minutes and multiple email lists
you would have to monitor to piece it all together for yourself.

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 EU posts online consultation results on "Internet of Things"
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Europe is very interested in the Internet of the future, having ceded to the
United States so much of the standards and governance of the Internet of the
past. A September 29, 2008 European Union staff working paper, "Early
Challenges to the Internet of
Things,"<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399494/http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/rfid/documents/earlychallengesIOT.pdf>shot
some policy concerns across the bow. How should the IoT be regulated?
EU seemed especially concerned about the apparent linkage between the Object
Naming System (ONS) used by EPC Global (contracting with VeriSign) and the
U.S.-controlled DNS root. Comment upon and responses to this staff paper are
now posted online<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399494/http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/rfid/library/index_en.htm#iotcons>.
If you are interested in the evolution of thinking about IoT a look through
these comments might be rewarding.
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 Cyber-security for people? Or nations?
<http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=38066197&f=175425&u=11399494>

The Internet is organized around "autonomous systems" -- independently
managed networks most of which are privately owned or, if public, managed at
the agency or department level. The current institutional structure for
public governance, on the other hand, is organized around nation-states.

That disjunction encourages some actors to construct Internet security as a
national security issue. Political claims that invoke "national security"
can inflate budgets and provide for more effective political mobilization
within bureaucracies and the political class. A recent report
<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399494/http://www.csis.org/tech/cyber/>from
a "Commission on Cyberspace Security for the 44th Presidency" assembled by
the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington
DC-based think tank with longstanding roots in Cold War dialogue,
exemplifies this problem. Written late in 2008, it urged the incoming
President to proclaim that "cyberspace is a vital asset for the nation
and…the United States will protect it using all instruments of national
power." This is a fundamentally misguided approach; this post explains why.

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 Shareholder groups push ISPs for transparency on DPI use
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A coalition of investors have filed shareholder resolutions with 10 major
U.S. Internet service providers, urging their corporate boards to report on
the impact of the companies' use of deep packet inspection for Internet
network management on the freedom of expression and privacy of their
customers. The effort was organized by the Open Media and Information
Companies initiative
(OpenMIC)<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399494/http://www.openmic.org/>.

A spokesperson for one of the investor groups, Farnum Brown of Trillium
Asset Management, said: "These companies have responded to the challenges of
managing the Internet in a patchwork, ad hoc fashion. In so doing they've
failed to notice the profound social policy issues they've unwittingly
engaged. Americans are concerned about how their use of the Internet is
monitored. They're concerned about whether their privacy and freedom of
expression are respected by the companies that manage the Internet. We as
shareholders believe it is in these companies' best business interests to
respond to those concerns."

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