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Internet Society Briefing Panel at IETF 95

Public Policy and Internet Technology Development

Details

Tuesday, 5 April 2016
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM (local time)

Hilton Buenos Aires
Av Macacha Guemes 351
Buenos Aires, C1106BKG, Argentina

Registration Information

Due to high demand for limited seating, pre-registration was required to attend the Briefing Panel in person. It is now full, but see the webcast section for how to participate remotely.

Webcast

This event will be recorded and webcast live on the ISOCtech YouTube Channel. You can watch directly on YouTube:

Pre-registration is NOT required to watch the webcast.

Abstract

The Internet Society has been bringing policy makers to IETF meetings for several years to experience the IETF meeting week first-hand and to learn from IETF experts about the technologies and standardisation processes that drive the IETF. Simultaneously, public policy makers have been directly involved in IETF projects like ECRIT and PAWS. The worlds of Internet technology standardisation and public policy development are drawing closer together.

When Internet technology is developed and standardised, the protagonists often move on to new projects while deployment proceeds in environments more diverse and heterogenous than any under consideration during the development phase. Because Internet technology has a real impact on people, their public representatives are increasingly taking an interest in the IETF as one source of this technology.

In this panel session we will identify the important issues for Internet public policy makers generally and the Latin American region in particular. We will discuss the relevance of the IETF to their work. In particular we will address the following questions:

  • What are the high priority issues for Internet policy makers today?
  • Why are policy makers interested in the work of the IETF?
  • Where does the work of the IETF and Public Policy intersect?
  • What could/should be done to improve two-way dialogue between technologists and public policy officials?

Moderator

  • Olaf Kolkman, Internet Society

Panelists

  • Fred Baker, Cisco Fellow
  • Dilawar Grewal
  • Nelson Guillén Bello, Dominican Republic
  • Raul Lazcano Moyano, Head of Regulatory Division, SUBTEL, Chile
  • Tim Polk, Assistant Director for Cybersecurity, U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy

Panelist Biographies

Fred Baker has been involved in data communications since 1978 and the development of the Internet since the 1980s. He has been involved in standards development in the IETF, both contributing technically and managing processes. His current interests are in routing, the management of latency and data flow, the universal deployment of IPv6, and the public policy implications these issues bring with them.

Nelson Jose Guillen Bello is Electronics and Telecommunications engineer. He holds a Masters degree in Data Telecommunications and various certifications related to Information Technology. He has been a professor at the technical, degree and masters level in several major universities in his country. He works at the Dominican Telecommunications Institute (INDOTEL) since 2004 institution where he has held several positions and participated in different projects. Among the projects he has participated include the Dominican Advanced Research and Education Network (RADEI), the amendment to the Basic Technical Numbering Plan, released Adequacy process to the General Telecommunications Law among others. Today he belongs to the Board of INDOTEL where he has promoted various initiatives that benefits users of telecommunications services.

Raúl Lazcano is the Head of Regulatory Policy and Studies Division of the Telecommunications Undersecretariat (SUBTEL), the regulator of the telecommunication sector in Chile. In the last 14 years Raúl has been working in several regulatory projects in Chile, like number portability, net neutrality or national long distance elimination, between others. Raúl is an electrical engineer with a specialization in telecommunication from Universidad de Santiago de Chile and has a magister degree in Economy Applied to Public Policies from Universidad Alberto Hurtado (Chile) and from Georgetown University. He had been head of some maintenance an operations areas in some chilean private radiocommunication companies and he had worked as a teacher in telecommunications issues and an advisor for private companies and government institutions.

Tim Polk is currently the Assistant Director for Cybersecurity in the US Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he is member of the policy teams for cybersecurity, high performance computing, and quantum information science. He joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology (then the National Bureau of Standards) in 1982 as a student trainee. After exploring computer networks and developing electronic publishing standards, he joined the computer security division in 1989. Initially, he performed research in integrity models, security tools for system administrators, and computer viruses. From 1995 through 2003, he focused exclusively on public-key infrastructure issues. Tim contributed to the development of numerous Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) public key infrastructure (PKI) standards as an author, reviewer, and as co-chair of the IETF's Public Key Infrastructure using X.509 (PKIX) working group. In particular, he was co-author of the RFCs which form the baseline for application-level interoperability for Internet PKI applications. Tim was a key contributor in the design and deployment of the Federal PKI, and helped establish the Bridge CA concept to implement what is now known as a federated trust model. As one of the authors of FIPS 201, Personal Identity Verification, Tim helped realize the government-wide identity credentials envisioned by HSPD-12. Tim also served four years on the IETF's Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) as one of two Area Directors for Security. As Security AD, he was responsible for the operations of seven working groups and reviewed the security aspects of every candidate RFC submitted for official publication. He became the NIST Cryptographic Technology Group Leader in January 2011, initiating new efforts in post quantum cryptography and privacy enhancing cryptography. He joined the Office of Science and Technology Policy in 2012. Tim is also co-author of the book “Planning for PKI”. He has degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from University of Maryland.