[Chapter-delegates] Sally Wentworth on Core Internet Values

[Joly MacFie]

Sally Wentworth addressed cybersecurity  in a speech earlier this week
http://www.internetsociety.org/cybersecurity-speech-given-embassy-kingdom-netherlands-washington-dc

In it she laid out some core principles (originated by Leslie Daigle, she
tells me, and codified at  Internet Invariants: What Really
Matters<http://internetsociety.org/internet-invariants-what-really-matters>
 )

*There are some basic characteristics about the Internet that really matter:
*

*The first is the Internet’s global reach and integrity*. As an Internet
user, I have to feel confident that all of the endpoints are
connected--that when I type in www.rabobank.com, that’s actually the site I
go to, and not somewhere else. It’s a little like the seal on a bottle of
Tylenol, which reassures me that there has been no tampering with what’s
inside. This integrity is partly a result of a technical specification
called DNSSEC, which has been in the news a bit lately because of the
impact that the SOPA legislation would have had on DNSSEC. I'll come back
to SOPA in a few minutes.

*The second core Internet principle is something we at the Internet Society
call permission-less innovation*.  Said another way, this is the ability of
anyone to create a new service on the Internet without having to get
approval from a governing body. Without thinking about this too long, any
of us could come up with a long list of online services that might not
exist if scientists and entrepreneurs needed to vet their ideas with, say,
their local phone company, their national government or the United Nations.

If Tim Berners-Lee had to ask for permission, would the World-Wide Web
exist? Would the idea of a Web “spider” have been rejected, cutting off the
development of Internet search services such as Google? Would Facebook have
850 million users and be headed for an IPO that could value it at $100
billion? How about Wikipedia and Twitter and Web mapping software and
downloadable music and hundreds of other things we take for granted in our
daily lives?

*A third thing we must preserve is the accessibility of the Internet*. This
goes farther than people’s being able to consume whatever legal content
they want; it extends to their ability to contribute content, add a server,
or attach a new network, as long as they follow the Internet's technical
standards.

*And the fourth thing to safeguard is the Internet’s spirit of collaboration
*. In addressing Internet security issues, we must find a way to get all
stakeholders involved, from users, to those of you in the Internet research
community, to commercial companies, to policymakers. Solutions developed in
isolation either don’t solve the problem or cause more harm than good.  In
some cases they can create significant problems that undermine the
stability of the Internet.



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