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IGF USA 2011

GEORGETOWN LAW CENTER

 

600 New Jersey Ave., N.W., Washington, DC

To Enter the Law Center:

Before 9 am please use the Tower Green/F Street Entrance, after 9 am the 2nd Street Entrance.

 

Monday, JULY 18, 2011

 

The IGF USA engages with civil society, government, and business, as well as technologists, researchers and academia to discuss topics being deliberated at a global level in the Internet Governance Forum (IGF).   The IGF USA will present a report into the global IGF, scheduled for September 27-30, Nairobi, Kenya.

 

8:15 A.M. Registration and Continental Breakfast

 

8:45 A.M. Opening Plenary Session:

Introductions to IGF-USA:        Marilyn Cade, Chief Catalyst, IGF-USA 2011

Welcome and Remarks :         Pablo Molina, Campus CIO and AVP, Georgetown University

Remarks:                               Chengetai Masango, IGF Secretariat

Remarks:                               Ambassador Phil Verveer, US State Department

 

9:30-10:00 A.M.                      Introduction of Speaker: Janna Anderson, Elon University      

                                             Speaker: Lee Rainie, PEW Research: Understanding Users Views

 

10:00-10:15 A.M. Morning Break

 

10:15-12:00  P.M. Scenario Breakout Sessions - Addressing a future affected by man-made and natural challenges and disasters- wars, civil strife, natural disasters, an aging world, interventionist governments - What is the governance future for the Internet in 2025? 

• Regionalization of the Internet  
• Youth - Rising and Reigning
• Government Prevails

Scenarios offer a way to look at possible futures, driven by trends.  Pioneered by Dutch Shell, but now adopted and adapted into corporate, governmental and NGO planning, IGF-USA 2011 will elaborate on its inaugural work in 2010 Scenarios. These sessions are purposely restricted to 30 participants, with Scenario teams who will examine a particular scenario and its possibilities, and implications for Internet’s future and the future for Internet Governance. The groups will then participate in an afternoon plenary session with all IGF-USA participants to debate the scenarios and offer perspectives. The Scenarios will form a significant part of the IGF-USA 2011 report into IGF Nairobi, September, 2011.

 

Scenario Team Members:   

Garland McCoy, Technology Education Institute;  Andrew Mack, AMGlobal; Alessandra Carozza, AMGlobal; Pablo Molina, Georgetown Law Center; Chris Hemmerlein, US DoC/NTIA; Kelly O’Keefe, Access Partnerships; Alex Stanford, Intern/Ackerman Senterfitt; Pam Covington, Verisign; Walda Roseman, ISOC; Steve DelBianco, NetChoice; ex officio - Marilyn Cade, ICT Strategies

 

10:15-12:00 P.M.   Can the Clouds prevail? Data Retention; Privacy; Security; Geo-location; Mobility; Government/Law Enforcement Cooperation; trans-national location issues:  Emerging Challenges in Internet Governance

 

Promoted by industry and government alike, the “Cloud” seems to be the answer to next stage online services—addressing costs; access; diversity of infrastructure; reliability; and security. Yet its very distributed nature raises Internet governance questions—this workshop will address the Internet Governance questions facing Cloud computing – and various stakeholders’ views on addressing them, including the emergence of mobile “Cloud”.

 

Dan O’Neil, GIIC, Coordinator

Michael Nelson, Georgetown University, Moderator

 

Speakers:                                                      Mark Crandall, Google

Jeff Brueggeman, AT&T                                  John Morris, CDT

Danny McPherson, Verisign                            Fred Whiteside, NIST

Amie Stephanovich, EPIC                               Jonathan Zuck, ACT

 

12:00 -1:00 P.M.  Networking Lunch – Hart Auditorium Area

 

1:15-3:00 Concurrent Workshops

 

WORKSHOP: New Challenges to CRITICAL INTERNET RESOURCES Blocking and Tackling: New Risks and Solutions?

The Internet’s visibility as a critical communications mechanism has drawn increased attention from policy makers, the technical community, and Internet users in general. Thus, security, stability, and resiliency of the Internet are recognized as priorities to the continued successful growth of the Internet as a platform for worldwide communication, commerce, and innovation.

Threats to these core elements of the Internet are already taking many forms and are increasing in scope and sophistication. On the other hand, new policy initiatives and technical solutions provide possible avenues to address the threats.

This panel will focus on two important topics which have engendered varying views concerning their efficacy with respect to the security, stability, and resiliency of the Internet: DNS blocking and filtering, and IPv6. It will explore the range of emerging threats to the Internet and the sometimes-competing considerations in the use of DNS-based solutions and the implementation of the new addressing system.

The program will present a balanced view of the relevant issues. It is expected to include participants from the government, intellectual property, Internet operations, and public interest communities. This session will be highly interactive and will include audience interaction and participation with the expert participants.

 

 Moderator

 Sally Wentworth - ISOC

 

Panelists

John Curran – ARIN                                        Rex Bullinger - NCTA

Dr. Stephen Crocker – Shinkuro                       Paul Brigner - MPAA

George Ou - Digital Society                             David Sohn - CDT

Don Blumenthal - PIR                                     Dr. Jim Galvin – Afilias, (and Workshop Coordinator)

 

* Jane Coffin, NTIA - special advisor workshop

  

WORKSHOP: A Plethora of Policy Principles:  OECD; US Cyber Security; G8 and Others

 

Recently, a plethora of Internet and online principles or statements by governments have emerged.  And they are joining existing sets of principles, some focused on human rights; some on security; some on Internet Governance.

 

The workshop will include a mini overview of several sets of principles:  OECD’s recently announced principles, statements by the G8 leaders about the Internet that have implications for action by the G8 countries; the U.S. International Strategy for Cyber space, Council of Europe’s (CoE) Internet Governance Principles, and principles developed by the Brazilian Steering Group and proposed for the Internet Governance Forum to endorse.  After a preliminary briefing on these sets of principles, a compare and contrast presentation will help to identify commonalities and differences.  

 

Armed with a common analysis of these sets of principles, the session then moves into a Roundtable, with invited respondents interacting with the presenters and each other to discuss and dissect the applicability of these principles to Internet Governance overall, and to consider how principles are then implemented – soft law; hard law; something else?  The process of developing principles varies across these principles, and with other sets of principles.  Is that important? Is multi-stakeholder always the right approach? And, what form of multi-stakeholder? Can principles be effective, or are government to government agreements needed to mandate industry and citizen action? Are treaties needed? Do corporate ‘codes of conduct’ influence changes in industry – and user behavior?  What about national law and national initiatives? And, if the latter, is that a patchwork that hinders the Internet’s growth?

 

Because the Internet and online services are global, the perspective of the workshop will be ‘taking a global view’ in the discussions that follow these presentations and briefings.

 

Co-Moderators:  Fiona Alexander, U.S. Department of Commerce, NTIA and Shane Tews, Verisign

 

Presentation of Principles: 

Heather Shaw. USCIB -- OECD Principles

Chris Hemmerlein, NTIA --  G-8 Internet Section

Shelia Flynn, U.S. State Department  – U.S. International Strategy on Cyberspace

Leslie Martinkovics – Brazilian Principles

Sarah Labowitz, U.S. State Department -- Council of Europe Internet Governance Principles

 

Iren Borissova, Verisign: Compare and Contrast – A synthesis view

 

Roundtable Participants

            Jackie Ruff, Verizon Communications, Inc                 Liesyl Franz, TechAmerica

            Milton Mueller, Syracuse University [remote]             Michael Nelson, Georgetown University

            Jeff Brueggeman, AT&T                                           Robert Guerra, Freedom House

            Cynthia Wong, CDT                                                Susan Morgan, GNI

 

 

WORKSHOP: Changing Landscape of the domain name System: new gTLDs and their implications for users: Opportunities and Risks

 

In the world outside of Internet governance and ICANN it’s little a little known fact that such a dramatic change to the domain naming system is before us.  In fact we can likely expect hundreds of new top-level-domain names in late 2012 through 2013.  Though ICANN and the Internet community posit that “(t)he expansion of the generic top-level domain (gTLD) space will allow for a greater degree of innovation and choice,”  many are discussing what the real impact will be for REGISTRANTS. 

 

In contrast, this session is intended to explore Internet USERS’ experience when the Domain Name System (DNS) undergoes this swift and massive expansion.  It's a chance for the community to explore expected changes and how they impact Internet use including communication, research, commerce and other emerging functions.   In this session bring together experts representing the broadest swath of the Internet community including government, contracted parties, users and businesses that represent some of the most trafficked sites online.

 

Please join this exciting discourse while we confront the Internet user experience as well as the tangible benefit and potential challenges hundreds or a thousand or more new gTLDs bring.

 

Frederick Felman, Mark Monitor, Moderator

Panelists:                                                                                 Bobbie Flaim, FBI

Suzanne Radell, NTIA                                                                Jon Nevett, Donuts, Inc

Amber Sterling, American Medical College Association                 Ron Andruff, DotSpot

Pat Kane, Verisign                                                           Brian Winterfeldt, Steptoe & Johnson LLP

 

BEST PRACTICE FORUM: Digital Natives: Myth-busting about Youth in the Online World

 

More than 90 percent of people ages 12 to 29 in the United States are online. Internet governance debates and Internet policy decisions are often tied to best guarding or guiding young people, but research by respected experts has shown that there are many half-truths and false impressions being tied to the generation that some people have labeled as “digital natives.” Among these are statements such as: “Young people are addicted to social media,” “Youth do not care about privacy,” “The Internet is a dangerous, dangerous place,” “Teens are naturally tech-savvy and adept at creating online content,” “The virtual world of online communication is isolating young people.” How do young people really use the Internet? How do they view the impacts and likely implications of their evolving uses of online tools? What issues of the digital age are today’s young people most concerned about? And how can decisions about the political, economic and social future of the Internet through governance processes best address these concerns in the future? This roundtable will bring together 10 to 12 college-age participants who will engage in a peer-moderated guided discussion and interaction with forum attendees.

• Everyone uses the Internet.
• Nobody accesses Internet on their computers anymore.
• The digital is separate from the “real” world.
• Social media makes kids deceptive.
• Social media is addictive.
• Young people don’t care about privacy.
• The Internet is a dangerous, dangerous place.
• There’s nothing educational about social media.
• Young people are digital natives.
• Teens are active creators of online content.
• The Internet is the great equalizer.

 

Co-moderators (students):                                           

Colin Donohue, Elon University                                              Ali Hamed, Cornell University

 

Participants:

Ronda Ataalla, Elon University                                   Jeff Stern, Elon University

Kellye Coleman, Elon University                                Kristen Steves, Cornell University

William O'Connor, Georgetown University                   Nick Troiano, Georgetown University

Chelsea Rowe, Cornell University                              William Vogt, Georgetown University

 

BEST PRACTICE FORUM: ICTs for Disaster Response: How the Internet is transforming Emergency Management:

 

Recent man-made and natural disasters around the globe have highlighted the importance of ICTs for connecting public safety officials, coordinating response operations, and keeping citizens informed.  Additionally, new and emerging Internet-based tools, mobile applications and social media have transformed disaster relief efforts, empowering citizens to access and share life-saving information and locate loved ones.  Enhanced media coverage via multiple platforms offers almost instantaneous and ubiquitous coverage about implications for life and property; individuals impacted by natural or man-made risks and threats are able to use social networks, and the Internet, to interactively report on their experiences.  The corresponding increase in media reporting and citizen reporting are raising the profile of the impact of disasters – but also transforming disaster response and management.  Responders are driving innovative uses of ICTs to transform emergency planning, intermediation, and management. The Internet and social networking are being harnessed by search and rescue teams to locate and bring vital support to victims.  ICTs are reassuring loved ones, bringing help to the stranded, raising financial aid, managing communications for responders, and supporting rebuilding.

 

This workshop will explore the role communications, Internet and Internet-based applications play in disaster response and recovery operations and steps that can be taken to ensure continuity of operations following a disaster.  The discussion will also consider the connection between disaster preparedness and Internet governance.

 

Moderated by: Kelly O’Keefe, Director, Access Partnership, LLC

 

Panelists:

 

Joe Burton, Communications and Information Policy, US State Department

Jim Bugel, Public Safety and Homeland Security

Corbin Fields, Sparkrelief

Vance Hedderel, Afilias

Keith Robertory, Disaster Services Technology, American Red Cross

Tim Woods, Cisco

 

3:00-3:15 P.M.  Afternoon Break 

 

3:15-3:45 P.M.  Larry Strickling, Assistant Secretary for

   Communications and Information/Administrator, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) US Dept. of Commerce

 

3:50-5:00 P.M.  Scenario Stories: The Internet 2025 Scenarios and Implications for the future                  of Internet Governance

                 Interactive Discussion with Audience and Key Respondents

 

5:00-5:30 P.M.  Closing Session:

• The way forward for Internet Governance
• Invitation to Internet Governance Forum, Nairobi, Kenya
• Closing Comments and Summing Up