[governance] CS strategic objectives in Internet governance

[McTim]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:

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>
> So I would say that for example a reform of ICANN's model of
> accountability/oversight could be part of the agenda of the summit,
> but only if this is done in the context of a broader “Internet
> governance architecture” theme that also addresses the creation
> of a mechanism to end the large-scale global privacy violations
> committed by the NSA.

The only possible mechanism to do this is called strong encryption.

To think that governments will agree at a "Summit" (called for by a US
non-profit and one gov't) to stop spying on their own people (and each
others) seems fairly naive.

Gov't will express outrage in public, but negotiating a stop to it in
a UN summit with many years of prep work and negotiations would be a
real stretch for them.  In a non-UN "summit" I think that is really
unrealistic.

Even if there was a UN Cyber Surveillance Convention that had real
sanctions against violators, gov't would just be more careful about
being caught.  The practice isn't going to stop (unfortunately).


Of course there will be no shortage of voices
> that will aim to distract from this point that the Brazilian government
> is particularly interested in. I don't expect such distraction tactics
> to be successful. The Brazilians are no fools.

Correct.

However, the press about their surveillance plans for the World Cup
seem to suggest that even they wouldn't sign an int'l treaty limiting
their ability to monitor communications.  Well they might sign it, but
violate it anyway, as would many nation states IMHO.

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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