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Recent report says many textbooks and articles have created the myth that the Internet Protocols (IP) were designed for warfare environments, while in reality they originally focused on operational aspects of the protocol and overlooked security implications. United Kingdom's Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) has released a document raising awareness of the many security threats from attacks based on the Internet protocol.

According to this report, "producing a secure TCP/IP implementation nowadays is a very difficult task" partly because no single document provides security roadmap for the protocols.

While seeking feedback from the community, the CPNI's document offers insights and advice for secure implementation of the Internet Protocol.

More under: Internet Protocol, Security

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The ISOC Board of Trustees is pleased to publish an initial report on the issue of Trust and Identity. The topic has been selected as one of ISOC’s core Initiatives and significant efforts are planned in several key areas. This document, Trust and the Future of the Internet (PDF: 208KB), focusses on the subject of Trust within the context of network enabled relationships, a topic initiated at a Retreat in October 2007. The following areas are explored in more detail:

• Advancing Internet architecture by supporting the implementation of open trust mechanisms throughout the full cycle of research, standardization, development and deployment.
• Strengthening the current Internet model by focusing on the mitigation of social, policy, and economic drivers that may hinder development and deployment of trust enabling technologies.
• Facilitating an end-user’s ability to manage personal data and ensure personal security by elevating “Identity” to a core issue in network research and standards development.

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Contributed by Bill Graham

On 9 August 2008, I made a presentation to the American Bar Association Annual Meeting in New York. I was invited to join a VIP Panel talking about “The Internet: how it is governed today and how it may be governed tomorrow.” Also on the panel were Markus Kummer, Executive Director of the Internet Governance Forum Secretariat, Paul Twomey, President and CEO of ICANN, and Dick Beaird (Coordinator, Communications and Information Policy, US Department of State). The audience, made up largely of US lawyers, was clearly interested in the topic, and engaged the panel with good questions and discussion after the presentations. Markus, Paul and myself, all devoted particular attention to the importance of the multistakeholder, open, collaborative “Internet model.”

Markus stressed the need for governments to realize they need to work with others, and characterized the IGF and the Internet technical community participation as being good examples of participatory governance, or networked governance.

I spoke second and focussed on the importance of continuing to engage all stakeholders, consistent with the Internet model (my presentation is posted to the ISOC website).

Paul Twomey opened with a graphic presentation of three different ways of viewing governance mechanisms. The first was demonstrated by showing a standard Mercator projection map of the world, pointing out that it represents governments’ view of the world (borders, countries, regions). His second slide showed a map of the world’s continents showing telephony cables and networks, which he described as the traditional telco view of the world - of fixed and well defined connections in a controlled network. The third slide was the 2001 map of the Internet shown as a vast series of interconnecting dots, which he said showed the Internet view of the world - of fluid interconnection of users on the co-operative, best efforts model.

Given that basis, Twomey talked about ICANN’s multi-stakeholder model, and the importance of the various communities in making decisions. He introduced the recent President’s Strategy Committee consultation on improving institutional confidence, and the importance for ICANN of ensuring the stability of the organization as its Joint Project Agreement with the US government comes to an end next year. He ended his presentation talking to the audience of lawyers about the decision to expand the gTLD space, consistent with the recent decisions taken at the Paris ICANN meeting. He highlighted that clients may be interested in the process both in terms of securing new gTLDs for themselves, or guarding their interest through the various dispute resolution processes that will be established.

Dick Beaird opened by mentioning that the US government position on Internet governance was set out in the July 2005 Dept of Commerce statement, and recently reinforced by Meredith Baker’s letter to ICANN as part of the PSC consultation. He said this shows that the US government remains committed to a strong ICANN, consistent with the original principles that led to its establishment, but he did not expand beyond that. The rest of his speech was a review of the outputs of the June 2008 Seoul OECD Ministerial meeting on the Future of the Internet economy. He reported that the Ministers’ commitments focused on developing reliable indicators for the Internet economy, including broadband penetration, on the benefits and challenges posed by convergence, and on the need to ensure a balance can be struck between the Internet’s capacity to promote creativity and innovation and the need to maintain security and confidence for users.

Questions from the audience focused on issues of security, protection of identity, and the possibility of finding solutions (including technical solutions) for Internet fraud. There was interest in what kinds of forums may evolve to deal with transjurisdictional problems and there was also quite a bit of interest in the recent stories about DNS vulnerability and cache poisoning.

I took the opportunity to promote ISOC and our Major Strategic Initiatives to the audience, particularly the Trust and Identity Major Strategic Initiative (MSI), given their interests, and this led to some useful discussion. The moderator asked the panel for their views of what will be the key challenges for the Internet that would be of interest to lawyers. I believe that there are two areas: the first is finding a way to deal effectively with the trans-jurisdictional nature of legal problems on the Internet; the second, achieving a reasonable balance in dealing with issues on the Internet. Questions/discussion on the first point were around protection of identity, whether there is any possibility of getting agreement about what should be protected, taking into account different cultures and legal frameworks around the world. The example given was the very different approaches to privacy in the US and in the EU, which have caused some problems. This is also where questions of identity protection and fraud came up. I said that while inter-governmental cooperation is needed, so is user education. That led to a question from a NY-based lawyer about the possibility of developing technical solutions to issues such as fraud, phishing, the Nigerian-letter-type scams, etc. I interpreted what he said as being in part trust-related i.e. how do you know who or what you’re dealing with on the Internet - and partly education related. On that basis, I briefly promoted the possibility of joining ISOC, and made information packages available.

The invitation to participate in meetings like the ABA Annual Meeting is an indication of the ongoing perception of ISOC as a leading organization in the global debate over Internet governance, and offers a good opportunity to present our views and information.

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Bardzo dobrze, że ta dyskusja trwa. Mam wrażenie, że zaraz osobom mniej przygotowanym do abstrakcyjnego myślenia eksplodują głowy, ale nikt nie mówił, że będzie łatwo. Jest polemika do tekstu w sprawie dozwolonego użytku osobistego, p. Maryla Rodowicz jest "złym piratem", który "gwałci" prawo autorskie, policja w czasie przesłuchania piętnastolatka pyta i sama odpowiada: "Wiesz co to RSW? Nie? Ratuj swoją dupę"... Chcemy dostosowywać prawo krajowe do prawa międzynarodowego (w tym prawa Unii Europejskiej), ale wielu nie dostrzega, że takie same obiekty (utwory) powinny być traktowane tak samo, a prowadnice (z opcją przyciągania obiektów) też można przesuwać, tylko nie każdy ma tyle siły, by do nich sięgnąć...

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Stanowiska uczestników konsultacji projektu decyzji w sprawie zmiany umowy o połączeniu sieci zawartej między MNI i Telekomunikacją Polską w zakresie opłat za zakańczanie połączeń w sieci MNI.