ICANN: Apply Public Health Response Model to E-Security IDG News Service (05/18/09) Gliddon, Joshua
as it appeared in the May 20, 2009 edition of ACM TechNews.
Poor public policy is a bigger threat to the Internet than cyberthreats, according to ICANN CEO Paul Twomey. Twomey discussed how ICANN can help curb cyberthreats during a speech at the annual AusCERT conference, and suggested that greater government control of the Internet would create more problems. "We need to think about the Internet's fundamental principles of collaboration, coordination, and communication when dealing with cyberthreats," he said. War and espionage are likely to continue during the Internet age, but a response that is more in line with public health concerns than national security is preferable, Twomey said. The industry should accept that pandemics will occur, but should strive for maintaining a clean commons. "The idea is to attack the swamps, not the fever," he said. View Full Article
