May 2023 - cooperation-wg - mailman.ripe.net

New on RIPE Labs: EuroDIG 2022 Live Blog
by Gergana Petrova 20 Jun '23

20 Jun '23

Dear colleagues, EuroDIG is happening right now with sessions on digital sovereignty and identity, the multistakeholder model of Internet governance, cybersecurity, and much more. RIPE NCC staff is live blogging the event over on RIPE Labs. Stay tuned for updates: https://labs.ripe.net/author/gergana_petrova/eurodig-2022-live-blog/ Best regards, Gergana -- Gergana Petrova Community Development Manager RIPE NCC

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Open Call: IGF MAG Nominations from the Internet Technical Community
by Chris Buckridge 05 Jun '23

05 Jun '23

Dear colleagues, With a very active and interesting couple of years ahead for the Internet Governance Forum (and Internet governance more generally), the Internet Technical Collaboration Group (ITCG) is opening a call for volunteers to represent the Internet technical community on the IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG). The MAG serves primarily as a Programme Committee for the annual IGF event, while also advising on the strategy and direction of the IGF, and working closely with the Secretariat. Since the early 2000s, the IGF has embodied the UN’s commitment to a multistakeholder approach to Internet governance, ensuring that stakeholders (like the Internet technical community) have a seat at the table and a voice in global governance processes. With some important discussions upcoming (including a 20-year review of the UN World Summit of the Information Society, which gives the IGF its mandate), maintaining a strong commitment to that approach is very important! Details of the open call are available on the ITCG website: https://www.internetcollaboration.org/2023/05/itcg-call-for-nominations-202… The nomination form is here: https://www.internetcollaboration.org/2024-igf-multistakeholder-advisory-gr… I am a current member of the MAG, so please feel free to reach out to me with any questions (or grab me in the corridor during this week’s RIPE Meeting in Rotterdam), particularly about time and work expectations. Best regards, Chris —— Chris Buckridge Advisor to the Managing Director, Global Strategic Engagement RIPE NCC

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Wikimedia Europe and RIPE (Fwd: [WMEU updates] VLOP designation of Wikipedia under the DSA)
by Željko Blaće 25 May '23

25 May '23

Dear RIPE.net Collaboration working group, after meeting some of you at RIPE#86 meeting and talking to your chair Desire Milosevic, I am making a second effort in trying to connect RIPE and Wikimedia, now with more specifically Wikimedia Europe that has been recently formally recognized as a legal entity and not just a advocacy group (as it used to be for many years in Brussels) supported by Wikimedia Germany and other affiliates. Here is the most recent Wikimedia Europe update where I think our shared focuses overlap and could maybe benefit from inter-personal or inter-organizational coordination. As both organizations make strong efforts to work in maximum transparency to its communities and general public, as well as for the equality and benefit of all Internet users I am sure this will be possible to do in the near future and around shared urgencies. Best Z. Blace ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Dimi Dimitrov <dimi(a)wikimedia.be> Date: Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 9:30 AM Subject: [WMEU updates] VLOP designation of Wikipedia under the DSA To: <updates(a)wikimedia-europe.eu> Hi all, The European Commission has designated Wikipedia as a Very Large Online Platform. This is no surprise and is based on the user numbers the WMF has published for the EU ( https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:EU_DSA_Userbase_Statistics). We estimate that we have 151 million users in the EU, 45 million would have been required. There are 19 platforms that fall into this category, we are the only not-for-profit. This comes with additional obligations and some bragging rights. With this status I think we can demand high level political attention in Europe. On the obligations, I am copying the monitoring report paragraphs below. Here is also a list of the main points: - The DSA is targeted at the service provider (Wikimedia Foundation), not the community content moderation - The WMF will have to appoint a legal representative in the EU for which it will need to choose a country - The notice & action system means that how a user sends complaints to the WMF is now clear and the stages that follow. - The WMF will have to do annual risk assessments for systemic risks and mitigation reports based on them - The WMF will need to find an auditor to control the risk assessment and mitigation measures - The WMF will need to publish its EU user estimate every three months - The WMF will have to pay a VLOP fee to the European Commission - The WMF is expected to contribute to the EU's moderation decision database - The WMF will need to demonstrate how it protects minors on Wikipedia I am available for additional questions, statements or interviews. Below is the monitoring report section for more detail. Phil Bradley-Scmieg, the WMF lawyer who is based in Europe and working on this can also be reached by email or on the public policy mailing list. === Digital Services Act === WE ARE VLOP. Officially. [1] For those less acquainted with EU terminology: Wikipedia has been designated as a Very Large Online Platform by the European Commission, which means that the WMF will have to comply with the strictest obligations under the Digital Services Act, including regular risk assessments for systemic risks (including things like public health, kids’ safety and freedom of expression), publishing mitigation measures based on them, and then undergoing an external audit. Wikipedia is the only not-for-profit service that has been designated as a VLOP; the other 18 are for-profit. — This is a chance for Wikimedia to demonstrate that compliance with such rules can be done in a manner that respects user rights and keeps communities - not the platform operator - in the driving seat. The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) is working on compliance and dedicating significant resources to this. The challenges are serious too. If regulators cannot be convinced that Wikipedia is properly addressing “systemic risks”, like election manipulation, then WMF and the community will be challenged to find additional responses to that. There’s also substantial “bureaucracy”: VLOP designation means that the WMF needs to appoint a legal representative in the EU. It needs to adjust internal processes so they are in line with the new “notice & action” framework, it has to set up a process on how to conduct risk assessments and mitigation reports (annually, and before making significant changes to things), and to find an appropriate auditor who will grill it on all of these things. — VLOPs are also expected to contribute to the European Commission’s moderation decision database (though whether and how such a database can comply with EU privacy laws, remains to be seen). Plus, there remains the not inconsequential task of ensuring all of the other Wikimedia projects - such as Commons - comply with the DSA’s more general rules. That’s a lot of work - and so is convincing the regulators to not forget our model when they’re writing the guidance and implementing rules - and it is handled by very lean teams (as openly and collaboratively as they can manage - witness the TOU update <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Legal_department/2023_…> ). Cheers, Dimi -- Dimitar Dimitrov Policy Director Wikimedia Europe mobile: +32497720374 Rue Belliard 12 Belliardstraat Brussels *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.* www.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Europe ivzw

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Request for information on ICT procurement procedures
by Wout de Natris 22 May '23

22 May '23

Dear colleagues, The internet Standards, Security and Safety Coalition, an IGF Dynamic Coalition, seeks your assistance in the following. Attached you find a PDF inviting you to assist our researchers Liz Orembo and Mallory Knodel in identifying procurement documents in your respective countries and/or organisations. Do they contain a demand for security when purchasing ICTs and if so, what kind? More is explained in the attached PDF. Please consider this request, as your input will make our work far stronger. Should you be able to answer this request, please answer me privately. Best regards, Wout de Natris IS3C coordinator - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - De Natris Consult Kamerlingh Onnesstraat 43 Tel: +31 648388813 2014 EK Haarlem Skype: wout.de.natris denatrisconsult(a)hotmail.nl<mailto:denatrisconsult@hotmail.nl> http://www.denatrisconsult.nl Blog http://woutdenatris.wordpress.com

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Future of Connectivity by Netnod
by Patrik Fältström 21 May '23

21 May '23

All, Netnod just submitted the attached to the EU COM as input to the questionnaire on "Future of Connectivity". Best, Patrik Fältström Head of Security Netnod

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RIPE 86 next week
by Desiree Miloshevic 19 May '23

19 May '23

Dear colleagues Following up on earlier agenda email sent by Julf, please note that this time, the Cooperation Working Group meets on Wednesday morning, May 24th 9-10AM CEST. Registration link is here. You will get the https://ripe86.ripe.net/attend/register/ RIPE Chair, Mirjam Kuhne - discusses next week’s RIPE86 https://labs.ripe.net/author/mirjam_kuhne/get-ready-for-ripe-86/ We look forward to seeing you online or in person. Achilleas, Julf, Desiree Coop WG Co-Chairs

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Cooperation WG Agenda for RIPE 86 - Wednesday May 24th
by Johan Helsingius 19 May '23

19 May '23

Dear all Please find bellow the agenda for the Coop WG RIPE86 meeting May 24, Wednesday, Rotterdam and online 09:00 - 09:02 Welcome - Coop WG Co-Chairs, Julf Helsingius, Achilleas Kemos, Desiree Miloshevic 09:02 - 09:20 Dutch Internet Standards Platform - Gerben Klien Baltin, Benjamin Broersma 09:20 - 09:40 Coop WG Small Task Team response to European Commission Consultation on the Future of the Electronic Communications Sector and Its Infrastructure 09:40 - 09:55 Chat Control 2.0 - Patrick Breyer, MEP Group of the Greens (TBC) 09:55 - 10:00 AOB See you there, in person or virtually, Achilleas, Julf and Desiree Coop WG Co-Chairs

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EU info
by Gordon Lennox 15 May '23

15 May '23

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Sanctions and the Internet report
by farzaneh badii 12 May '23

12 May '23

Hello everyone, We just published the "Sanctions and the Internet" report. This report was commissioned by RIPE NCC and it looked at the effect of sanctions on Internet development and access at the infrastructure level. Here is the link: https://digitalmedusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/SanctionsandtheInterne… In the next few months, Digital Medusa will try to expand on the report and discuss it with various communities. So if you have feedback or suggestions on any aspect of the report, please let me know. Best regards, Farzaneh

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Presentation slides
by Desiree Miloshevic 03 May '23

03 May '23

Hi Please find attached a copy of the final slides. If people think that Slide 8 is too busy or unclear we can remove it. Thanks Desiree --

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