[Bpf-cybersecurity] BPF on Cybersecurity 2021 - Kick off meeting

[Alejandro Pisanty]

Hi,

thanks for this invitation. In preparation for the meeting and all the good
work to be done this year, please allow me to express a quick thought:

I have a feeling - not a scientific fact - that our BPF is drifting, maybe
not willingly, in a direction that begins to become less attractive to
participants of a technical and operational bent. The work being done on
norms is of very high quality and relevance, but may be becoming
progressively less attractive in that sense. There is of course the benefit
that it has become more attractive to participants active in normative
spheres, international relations, multilateral organizations, etc., whom we
by no means should risk losing. For 2021 we might want to test remedying
this - if others also perceive it as a problem - by adjusting our issues,
by calling on specific speakers, and probably too by the unavoidable need
to discuss the impact of the crisis originated by COVID-19. This item could
provide us with some test cases for when norms have been particularly
useful; from where they have been an obstacle, or been circumvented by
non-purely-beneficial actors; and where they have been developed or adapted
promptly by agile, effective processes that have scaled well at Internet
scale, brought diverse stakeholders together, and provided actual, provable
benefits.

In this very vague first approach, I am not thinking only of the "core"
COVID-19 event - the spread of the pandemic and its immediate consequences
in health systems - but also in the innovative responses in e-commerce,
e-government, logistics, education, infrastructures, etc., and of the many
painful gaps in all of these fields that were revealed in the last 14-16
months. Of course this has to be analyzed under the cybersecurity
best-practices lens in our case.

Besides extensive specific literature, I would also like to recommend
reading two books published in the last few months:

1. DeNardis et al., eds. "Researching Internet Goverance - Methods,
Frameworks, Futures" (MIT Press, 2020)

2. Alison Harcourt et al., "Global Standard Setting in Internet
Governance", Oxford University Press, 2020.

We might also consider inviting some of the authors to the work of the BPF.
I bow to the better knowledge of other members for that decision.

I hope all of you and your families are staying safe and healthy.

Alejandro Pisanty

On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 2:55 PM Hariniombonana Andriamampionona <
iombonana at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> A kind reminder that we will have our virtual meeting on *Thursday 29
> April, at 15:00 UTC*.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Iombonana ANDRIAMAMPIONONA
>
> Le mar. 13 avr. 2021 à 22:40, Hariniombonana Andriamampionona <
> iombonana at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> It’s my pleasure to announce that the Best Practice Forum on
>> Cybersecurity is kicking off this year's work with a virtual meeting on *Thursday
>> 29 April, at 15:00 UTC*.
>>
>> The BPF Cybersecurity 2021 on the use of norms to foster trust and
>> security intends to take a deeper look at the drivers of cyber norms and
>> test these norms concepts against historical Internet events, to better
>> understand how specific norms can be effective at mitigating adverse
>> cybersecurity events.
>>
>> A small coordinating team got together to develop the MAG agreed proposal
>> into a draft work plan, which will be presented and discussed at the
>> kick-off call.  An outline of this draft work plan can be found on the BPF
>> Cybersecurity webpage:
>> https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/bpf-cybersecurity .
>>
>> The call details can be found here
>> https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/bpf-cybersecurity-2021-kick-off-meeting
>>  .
>>
>>
>> The BPF is open to all interested. Do not hesitate to forward this
>> invitation to your networks.
>>
>>
>> On behalf of the BPF Cybersecurity coordination team,
>>
>> Kind Regards
>>
>> Iombonana Andriamampionona
>> MAG Facilitator of the BPF Cybersecurity
>>
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