[governance] How to Prevent Cyber War

[Emmanuel Edet]

I find the comments of Mr Hamadoun Toure very interesting. I come from
a legal background but I think his comments are based on an inaccurate
perception of what cyberspace is. Perhaps he is more comfortable with
switched networks which are located in specific geographical points.
Wikipedia gives a brief definition of Cyberspace.

Cyberspace is "the global domain of electromagnetics as accessed and
exploited through electronic technology and the modulation of
electromagnetic energy to achieve a wide range of communication and
control system capabilities".

Cyberspace is in itself a global turf there is no way we can create
rules and restrictions on cyberspace the way we do on physical space.
With this understanding, it would be difficult to use a terrestrial
treaty to prevent attacks on cyberspace. In cyberspace, countries,
individuals and even organisations like Google have equal status. None
is a citizen of the other and thus subject to territorial rules and
regulations. So what if an individual attacks and brings down a
Government, would it be cyberwar or cybercrime?

Cyberspace is not a connection of wires across territories, it is an
extension of a global space that needs a different approach to
policing and regulations not just extending terrestrial laws and
conventions. By the way on cctlds what would happen to those who come
from territories fighting for self determination? And refuse to be
associated with cctlds?

On 2/2/10, Imran Ahmed Shah <ias_pk at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
> Your comments are very important to me because of hidden criticism in it.
> I would like to mention only little points. if the traffic and accessibility
> of the internet is traceable by monitoring and controlled with existing
> policies why still everyone is facing spam and hacking attacks? Why cyber
> attacks happens? How the viruses are being spread globally. Can you assure
> that every one sitting behind a domain name and accessing Internet has only
> good intentions and is following good ethics.
> My suggestion is to create a trustable internet highway where everyone can
> ensure that space is not going to be utilized with any bad intentions. You
> can only guarantee to others if you can assure a confidence level to
> yourself. Otherwise your enemies can use your own space to attack just to
> pull you in the Cyber War.
> Localized Global Internet is not a contradiction of two terms but it mean is
> the new IDN Layer of Internet with Domain Names of Local Languages and are
> accessible on global level.
> Imran
> ________________________________
> From: Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <isolatedn at gmail.com>
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Imran Ahmed Shah <ias_pk at yahoo.com>
> Cc: Ginger Paque <gpaque at gmail.com>; Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>;
> Imran ICANNians.com <imran at icannians.com>
> Sent: Tue, 2 February, 2010 13:07:07
> Subject: Re: [governance] How to Prevent Cyber War
>
> Hello
>
> ( I will make more comments after I find the text of this speech at Davos.
> But for now, there are a few comments inline.)
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Imran Ahmed Shah <ias_pk at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> How to Prevent Cyber War
>>Experts think that the warning from Secretary General of UN communications
>> and technology agency International Telecommunications Union, Mr Hamadoun
>> Toure at World Economic Forum can prevent Cyber War between different
>> nations. He proposed a treaty in which countries would engage not to make
>> the first cyber strike against another nation.
> No country that indulges in Cyber War declares a war and wages it in a
> manner akin to how it happens in the real world. Cyber attacks are covert
> attacks, not transparent attacks.
>
>
> Google claims regarding attacks from China has become a major issue and it
> was a major talking point in Davos. Hamadoun Toure said that the risk of a
> cyber conflict between two nations grows every year.
>>Now it is need of the time to sign up treaty for all countries and first of
>> all from China. But who will define that who is right and who is wrong?
>> Today anyone can obtain any kind of domain name and can host it anywhere
>> that may be accessible from any other corner of the world.
> The subtle message of the Cyber Treaty proposal is to bring in a system
> whereby all Internet traffic would be traced back to the user.
>
> Similarly Internet is accessible to every one.
>>
>
> But this would actually take shape to make the Internet inaccessible to the
> citizens of control regimes.
>
>
>
> China has decline the google claim that they are not involved in such kind
> of attack on Google. Well, but China has to take care about the domain
> registrations with .cn ccTLD and all Data Centers of the country.
>>China and Google is the first case but I would like to recommend to
>> Government Authorities, ICT Policy makers/implementers, and Stakeholders
>> of each country to STOP issuance of new domain names (registrations) with
>> their ccTLD name space and hosting-services from their data-centers to
>> non-citizens immediately. Second step is to re-evaluate the existing
>> domain names & hosting and formulate a methodology to constantly
>> monitoring and record the internet traffic to and from existing ccTLD
>> domain names (hosted inland).
>
> Brilliant. Inventive. Genius. These proposals make ccTLD space
> geographically confined. And would make Internet almost indistinguishable
> from Telephones.
>
> These actions will prevent misuse of ccTLD name space and protect the
> nations pulling into the cyber war. If they found any misuse or moderate
> traffic from a domain, immediately the information has to be passed to the
> UN communications and technology agency.
>>These steps may be very helpful to create confidence between nations and
>> will keep building up the trust on One World, One Internet, Everyone
>> Connected.
>
> These steps would be very helpful to shatter the concept of One World, One
> Internet and ensure that not everyone is connected.
>
>
> The trust between nations is very much necessary for neutrality and openness
> of the Internet
> Neutrality and Openness would be gone.
>
> and especially for the future Layers of new Localized Global Layer of the
> Linguistic Internet.
> Localized Global ???  This Oxymoron shows.
>
> Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
>
>
>>[Imran Ahmed Shah]
>>Advisor to
>>  Urdu Internet Council
>>
>>Group Leader of
>>  WebSphere User Group of Pakistan
>>  Pakistan Tivoli User Group
>>  Pakisan Rational User Group
>>
>>ICANNian since Oct-2009
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