[CII] welcome to the public CII

[Paul Schmehl]

The first thing governments must understand is that they cannot control the
internet.  Therefore they must learn how to develop policies that will
result in resilience of CI (whatever that is defined to be) rather than
attempting to stop "bad stuff" from happening.

If you listen to politicians in the US, you quickly realize that they think
of the internet as a contiguous "thing" that can be controlled somehow.  The
internet is more like air.  You cannot hope to control air.  You can merely
try to keep it as clean as possible while acknowledging that one hurricane,
tornado or volcanic eruption can undo years of hard work.

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From: cii-bounces at isotf.org [mailto:cii-bounces at isotf.org] On Behalf Of
Andrea Glorioso
Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 2:58 AM
To: cii at isotf.org
Subject: Re: [CII] welcome to the public CII

In terms of "what is missing", I think policy-makers have still a long way
to go before they understand what the Internet actually is and how it is
operationally managed.  One consequence of this is that in some cases they
still try to apply crisis management approaches that will not work.  On the
other hand, the private sector must stop pretending (at least with us) that
we are still in the '80s and that the Internet infrastructures they operate
are not vital for society.