Can the Internet Survive?Internet Security, Technology and Governance: Problems and Solutions

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Can the Internet Survive?Internet Security, Technology and Governance: 
Problems and Solutions

 

An Oxford Internet Institute (OII) Symposium

Lecture Theatre 7, Sainsbury Building

London Business School

11 October 2004 (10am to 4pm)

 

Organised by

 

Bill Dutton, Oxford Internet Institute, in collaboration with

Leonard Waverman, ESRC e-Society Programme and London Business School

Michael Earl, Templeton College, Oxford University

Programme

The phenomenal worldwide popularity and growth of the Internet and Web 
is under threat from many directions, globally and locally: spam, 
viruses, denial-of-service-attacks, pornography, paedophile soliciting, 
fraud and government monitoring and censorship. These threats raise 
many questions of vital social and economic significance, such as:

·          Will the Internet’s value be undermined – and its survival 
endangered?

·          What can be done technically, such as in the area of 
security?

·          What can users, households, Internet service providers and 
industry do?

·          Are policy responses required, such as Internet governance 
and regulation?

·          Will the next Internet protocol (IPV6) and other technical 
advances help?

·          Or will the Net become clogged up until there is an 
e-traffic gridlock?

The OII Symposium: Aims and Speakers

The aim of this event is to have an interactive dialogue between 
distinguished panels of speakers and other participants in order to 
identify problems and solutions raised by the kinds of questions 
outlined above.

 

 

 

 

Coffee and Registration

 

9:00 am to 10:00 am

 

Welcome and Introduction: Threats to the Internet

10:00 am to 11:00

 

Chair and Moderator: Leonard Waverman, London Business School

 

Professor David Farber, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, referred to by 
Wired Magazineas the ‘Paul Revere of the Internet’ will introduce a 
range of issues tied to the survival of the Internet and Web.

 

He will be introduced by Ted Nelson, OII Fellow and early visionary of 
the future of computing and information – the person who coined the 
term hypertext. This introduction will be followed by panels which will 
include:

 

Dimensions of the Problems

11:00 am to 12:45 pm

 

Chair: Michael Earl, Templeton College

 

·          Mark Handley, Computer Science, UCL and member of the 
Internet Architecture Board

·          Professor Stuart Anderson, Laboratory for Foundations of 
Computer Science, University of Edinburgh and principal in the EPSRC’s 
Interdisciplinary Research Consortium on Dependability of 
Computer-Based Systems

·          Richard Starnes, Director of Incident Response, Managed 
Security Operations Centre, Cable and Wireless

 

 

Lunch Buffet

12:45 pm to 1.30 pm

 

 

Attacking the Problems:

From the Architecture of the Internet to the Strategies of Households

1:30 pm to 3:15 pm

 

Chair: Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, member Conseil d'Etat (French Council 
of State), head of Le Forum des droits sur I’internet (the Internet 
Rights Forum) and European Internet Coregulation Network

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Panelists:

 

·          Dr Norman Lewis, Director of Technology, Wanadoo Research 
and Innovation

·          Professor Sonia Livingstone, LSE and ESRC e-Society Programme

 

 

Emerging Attachments to the Net: Thinking about E-Mail

3:30 pm to 4:00 pm

 

Chair: Bill Dutton, Director of the OII

 

Speaker:

 

Professor Susan Douglas, University of Michigan, a cultural historian 
of radio, who is focusing on e-mail, and its meaning for a growing 
population of users.

 

Professor Dutton will moderate the final minutes of summary points and 
conclusions to the presentation and the day.

 

 

Reception

4:00 pm to 5 pm

 

Sponsorhip: This meeting will be one contribution to the OII’s ESRC 
Seminar Series on Internet governance issues related to the World 
Summit on the Information Society, with support from that grant along 
with contributions from the Higher Education Funding Council for 
England, and the ESRC’s e-Society Programme.

 

As space will be limited to enable full participation in discussions, 
places at the event (£80 for non-students, and £10 for students) must 
be reserved in advance at: events () oii ox ac uk

 

 

 

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