COLLABORATIVESECURITY

An approach to tackling Internet security issues

Fostering confidence

and protecting opportunities

Collective responsibility

Fundamental properties and values

Evolution and consensus

Think globally, act locally

Elements of the Collaborative

Security Approach

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An Internet security paradigm should:1

• Foster confidence globally,• Protect social and economic opportunities, and• Advance objectives in design and in practice.

Internet participants have:2

• A common interest in the management of the Internet to ensure its sustainability, and

• A collective responsibility to care for the Internet for the benefit of everyone.

Security solutions should be integrated to preserve the:

• Internet Invariants, and• Fundamental human rights, values, and

expectations.Agree on the problem and then find the solution. Security solutions need to be:

• Flexible enough to evolve over time,• Responsive to new challenges,• Resilient against change and threats, and • Take an open, consensus-based participatory approach.

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Security solutions should involve communities:

• Of different players taking action closest to where issues occur,

• That are the smallest, lowest, or least centralized link in the chain,

• Formed in a bottom-up, self-organizing fashion, and• That effectively and efficiently define and implement

solutions based on interoperable building blocks.

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