[governance] China: "we don't agree that the IGF should

[William Drake]

Hi Carlos,

Oddly enough, I'm writing this as I listen to you talk about e-poverty  
on a panel...

On May 20, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Carlos Afonso wrote:

> This is actually not a problem regarding access to information --  
> the material being produced by ITU on cybersecurity and the outreach  
> of Impacta will not be limited to ITU membership, I learned yesterday.

Suggest we need to be more specific here.  Whatever the new Impact  
group plans to do, it's not obvious this affects other ITU work on  
cybersecurity.   For example, the technical standards/recommenations  
adopted by ITU-T SG 13 on security require access via an ITU TIES  
account, so non-members cannot really see what's really going on with  
issues like trace back and digital identity standards.  Other  
components of the Global Cybersecurity Agenda, e.g. the work of the  
High-Level Experts Group on Cybersecurity, are also quite opaque to  
outsiders.

ITU has set up a platform "for collaboration amongst interested  
stakeholders in cybersecurity within the framework of WSIS Action Line  
C5 and the ITU Global Cybersecurity Agenda."   http://groups.itu.int/Default.aspx?alias=groups.itu.int/gcahleg 
   It might be good if some interested stakeholders from CS were to  
register, or attempt to, and let us all know how that's going.

Best,

Bill

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William J. Drake
Senior Associate
Centre for International Governance
Graduate Institute of International and
   Development Studies
Geneva, Switzerland
william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch
www.graduateinstitute.ch/cig/drake.html
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