GCSC critical infrastructure protection questions: your input needed.

[Bill Woodcock <woody () pch net>]

One of PCH’s long-term efforts has been to encourage governments to restrict their use of offensive cyber attacks 
against civilian networks.  As you might imagine, this is a reasonably popular idea everywhere except the US, Russia, 
and China.  We’ve successfully gotten that effort out of the U.N., where it was floundering, and into a well-supported 
stand-alone commission.  It’s being taken very seriously by governments, and will be one of the most important topics 
under discussion at the Global Conference on Cyberspace in Delhi next week.

The work has been divided into two working-groups: one is addressing the question of what a norm should say (i.e. 
“Governments shouldn’t cyber-attack X”).  The other is addressing the question of what infrastructures should be 
protected (i.e. what is the X that shouldn’t be attacked). I’m chairing that second working group. The main thing we’re 
delivering in Delhi is the result of a survey of what infrastructure people think should be protected.  That survey is 
still open, and we’d like as many people to respond as possible.  So, please consider doing so.  It’ll only take a 
couple of minutes, and it’s a critical part of an admittedly very lengthy process to make your life easier.

    https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/criticalinfrastructure

Much appreciated,

                               -Bill




Links in case you want to pursue further reading on the things I’ve mentioned above:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eligible_Receiver_97

    https://lawfareblog.com/un-gge-failed-international-law-cyberspace-doomed-well

    https://cyberstability.org/about/

    https://gccs2017.in

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Conference_on_CyberSpace

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