[Chapter-delegates] Sally Wentworth on Core Internet Values

[Rodel Urani]

Exploring, adopting and even enforcing (an international)
cybersecurity effort while continue to encourage the current behavior of
the Internet to live on as open platform for innovation is just the right
thing to do.

Well said.
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:43 AM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:

>
> 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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