https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131014/08210124863/key-internet-institutions-ditch-us-leadership-brazil-to-host-global-summit-to-draw-up-new-governance-model.shtml
> Key Internet Institutions Ditch US Leadership; Brazil To Host Global Summit > To Draw Up New Governance Model > > from the payback-time dept > > Here's a hugely important story that brings together three major threads. > First, the continuing wrangling over the form that Internet governance should > take. Second, the fact that NSA's massive surveillance operations around the > world have included economic espionage. And third, Brazil's increasingly > angry reaction to that spying. As a post from the Internet Governance Project > explains: > >> the Directors of all the major Internet organizations -- ICANN, the Internet >> Engineering Task Force, the Internet Architecture Board, the World Wide Web >> Consortium, the Internet Society, all five of the regional Internet address >> registries -- turned their back on the US government. With striking >> unanimity, the organizations that actually develop and administer Internet >> standards and resources initiated a break with 3 decades of U.S. dominance >> of Internet governance. > > Those directors have issued what they call the "Montevideo Statement on the > Future of Internet Cooperation," which includes the following: > >> They called for accelerating the globalization of and functions, towards an >> environment in which all stakeholders, including all governments, >> participate on an equal footing. > > That's a fairly clear call for the US to relinquish its dominant role. > Another section hints at why this is happening now: > >> They expressed strong concern over the undermining of the trust and >> confidence of Internet users globally due to recent revelations of pervasive >> monitoring and surveillance. > > But this isn't just some vague but meaningless statement of annoyance: those > involved have already started working on ways to replace current structures, > as this story on the news24.com site reports: > >> Brazil, which has slammed massive US electronic spying on its territory, >> said on Wednesday it would host a global summit on internet governance in >> April. >> >> President Dilma Rousseff made the announcement after conferring in Brasilia >> with Fadi Chehade, chief executive of the Internet Corporation for Assigned >> Names and Numbers (Icann). >> >> "We have decided that Brazil will host in April 2014 an international summit >> of governments, industry, civil society and academia" to discuss Brazil's >> suggestions for upgrading Internet security, Rousseff said on Twitter. > > Once again, we see the NSA's reckless disregard for the consequences of its > global surveillance -- far beyond what could be regarded as reasonable or > proportionate -- is now having massive adverse effects on America's standing > and influence in the world. The Internet Governance Project post puts it well: > >> Make no mistake about it: this is important. It is the latest, and one of >> the most significant manifestations of the fallout from the Snowden >> revelations about NSA spying on the global Internet. It's one thing when the >> government of Brazil, a longtime antagonist regarding the US role in >> Internet governance, gets indignant and makes threats because of the >> revelations. And of course, the gloating of representatives of the >> International Telecommunication Union could be expected. But this is >> different. Brazil's state is now allied with the spokespersons for all of >> the organically evolved Internet institutions, the representatives of the >> very "multi-stakeholder model" the US purports to defend. You know you've >> made a big mistake, a life-changing mistake, when even your own children >> abandon you en masse. > > And before anyone tries to blame this latest development on Snowden, let's be > clear that the problem is not that this activity has been revealed, but that > the NSA was doing it in the first place. -- Kim Holburn IT Network & Security Consultant T: +61 2 61402408 M: +61 404072753 mailto:[email protected] aim://kimholburn skype://kholburn - PGP Public Key on request _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
