[governance] CNAS Commentary: "The Internet Yalta"

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

I have to say, the whole Cold War analogy post-WCIT is grossly overbaked
IMO. I can tell you it is seen as a joke in Geneva amongst delegations
(including amongst those accused of being the protagonists/antagonists).

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Regards,

Nick Ashton-Hart

Sent from my one of my handheld thingies, please excuse linguistic mangling.

On 11 Feb 2013, at 16:22, "Louis Pouzin (well)" <pouzin at well.com> wrote:

Hi Philipp,

Congrats for your very perceptive analysis. The fragmentation trend is
indeed on the ground already. Do you have any comments on the creeping
cyberwar ?

Best, Louis
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On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Philipp Mirtl <Philipp.Mirtl at oiip.ac.at>wrote:

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> For those who are interested, I forward you the link to a recently
> published *commentary on WCIT-12*: http://www.cnas.org/theinternetyalta.**
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> The abstract reads as follows:****
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> “The December 2012 meeting of the World Conference on International
> Telecommunications (WCIT) may be the digital equivalent of the February
> 1945 meeting of the Allied powers in Yalta: the beginning of a long
> Internet Cold War between authoritarian and liberal-democratic countries.
> The battles over Internet governance that surfaced at WCIT are not just
> about competing visions of the Internet, with one side favoring openness
> and the other security. They are also about two different visions of
> political power – one in which that power is increasingly distributed and
> includes non-state actors, and one in which state power is dominant. At the
> Yalta Conference, Western democracies made two fundamental mistakes: first,
> they allowed naive statements of wishful thinking to supplant actual
> realities on the ground. Second, they overlooked the risk inherent in
> permitting ambiguous definitions. Both of these mistakes may have been
> repeated at WCIT.”****
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> Best regards,****
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> Philipp Mirtl****
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