[Chapter-delegates] Internet Kill Switch - the Costs

[Christian de Larrinaga]

The term kill switch should be restated to 'suicide switch'.

The major disincentive to install kill switches at the scale of a national or regional network is the impact on confidence in the economy both from those within and outside the boundary.  Another disincentive is the fact that defining a boundary may presume no significant leakage through it but that is just a theoretical assumption that is very unlikely to occur in practice. 

Both these reasons show that the cost is always higher than the benefit and the measures are very likely to fail in protecting assets believed ring fenced by such a mechanism. 


Christian 





On 20 Feb 2011, at 19:00, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:

> This week I gave a talk at a conference on Internet and Democracy in
> Kiev, Ukraine.
> It was a general presentation, touching on many points and various
> aspects of Internet Governance.
> 
> I therefore emphasized the following points (speaking on my own behalf
> and not on behalf of ICANN At-Large):
> 
> - what is a multi-stakeholder governance process?
> - what is the Internet model?
> - what is ICANN?
> - how is it structured?
> - how is it multi-stakeholder bottom-up?
> - Structure of GNSO
> - Structure of At-Large
> - The End-User principle (no filtering)
> - The Internet is changing the world of business
> - The Internet is changing the world
> - The Internet economic weight on GDP
> - how do you create a business climate which will take advantage of the
> Internet?
> - Join multi-stakeholder governance processes!
> - An Internet Kill Switch is a Kill Switch for your economy
> 
> I linked the use of tough Internet controls with economics by explaining
> that the Internet industry has thrived in the most open Internet
> governance environments, the UK being one example.
> 
> The cartoon at the end of the Powerpoint presentation is a clear message
> to avoid a kill switch.
> 
> Presentation slides are on:
> 
> http://www.slideshare.net/ocl999/multi-stakeholder-governance
> 
> I am told that a TV record of the talk has been taken, but the camera was very far and I gather that the audio is probably dubbed in Ukrainian. No transcript that I know of.
> 
> I hope that this will inspire everyone to follow the line that an Internet Kill Switch is a very bad idea indeed.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Olivier
> 
> -- 
> Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
> http://www.gih.com/ocl.html
> 
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