CITP

One Day Conference

This workshop is free and open to the public. To register, please RSVP to citp@princeton.edu with your full name and affiliation. Attendees registered by Friday, November 19, 2010 will receive lunch and a name tag.

The body of digital information held by various entities is both staggering and constantly expanding. Each day we hear new reports of newly digitized "dark" archives, enhanced digital tracing techniques, data privacy breaches, and aggregated data sets. At the same time, much historically important information goes unrecorded - at least in any usable or enduring digital form. How do we reconcile the many different constituencies, technologies, uses, and norms into sensible policy? This conference will gather leading experts from a variety of domains to discuss the challenges of "big data" and the attendant policy considerations.

Keynote Speaker: David Weinberger, Author of Everything is Miscellaneous and the forthcoming Too Big to Know

The Internet is approaching a critical point. The world is running out of Internet addresses. Internet engineers developed a new technical protocol, IPv6, to address this problem but IPv6 adoption has barely begun because of technical, cultural, and economic constraints. DeNardis's key insight is that technical standards are political. IPv6 serves as a case study for how protocols more generally are intertwined with socioeconomic and political order. IPv6 intersects with provocative topics including Internet civil liberties, U.S. military objectives, globalization, institutional power struggles, and the promise of global democratic freedoms. DeNardis offers recommendations for Internet standards governance, based not only on technical concerns, but also on principles of openness and transparency, and examines the global implications of looming Internet address scarcity versus the slow deployment of the new protocol designed to solve this problem.

Dr. Laura DeNardis is the Executive Director of the Yale Information Society Project. She is a scholar of Internet governance and architecture, teaches at Yale Law School, and is the author of Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance (The MIT Press 2009), Information Technology in Theory (Thompson 2007 with Pelin Aksoy), and numerous book chapters and articles. Her upcoming edited collection, Opening Standards, the Global Politics of Interoperability, is in press and will be published by The MIT press in 2011. DeNardis received a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Virginia Tech, a Master of Engineering degree from Cornell University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Engineering Science from Dartmouth College.

Reception immediately following in 3rd floor open space

Barbara van Schewick will give a talk on her recently released and widely praised book, Internet Architecture and Innovation. Professor Marvin Ammori has described the book as "essential reading for anyone interested in Internet policy-and probably for anyone interested in the law, economics, technology, or start-ups." The book analyzes how the Internet's internal structure, or architecture, has fostered innovation in the past; why this engine of innovation is under threat; why the "market" alone won't protect Internet innovation; and which features of the Internet's architecture we need to preserve so that the Internet continues to serve as an engine of innovation in the future. Whether you are tired of or confused by the network neutrality debate, or simply wondering what is at stake, van Schewick's talk will be refreshing and illuminating. More information on the book, including an overview and excerpts, is available at Internet Architecture and Innovation, http://netarchitecture.org/.

Barbara van Schewick is an Associate Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, an Associate Professor (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering at Stanford's Department of Electrical Engineering and the Director of Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. Van Schewick's research focuses on the economic, regulatory, and strategic implications of communication networks. In particular, she explores how changes in the architecture of computer networks affect the economic environment for innovation and competition on the Internet, and how the law should react to these changes. This work has made her a leading expert on the issue of network neutrality. Her papers on network neutrality have influenced regulatory debates in the United States, Canada and Europe. In 2007, van Schewick was one of three academics who, together with public interest groups, filed the petition that started the Federal Communications Commission's network neutrality inquiry into Comcast's blocking of BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer protocols. She has testified before the FCC in en banc hearings and official workshops.

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In this talk, Prasad will describe the problem he found, his experiences with politically motivated retribution, and the future of voting in India. He will be joined by Professor J. Alex Halderman from the University of Michigan, a security researcher who participated in Prasad's study. More information about the study and India's voting system is available online at www.IndiaEVM.org

Hari Krishna Prasad Vemuru is a security researcher in India who was recently named as a recipient of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's 2010 Pioneer Award for his work revealing security flaws in India's paperless electronic voting machines. He has endured jail time, repeated interrogations, and ongoing political harassment to protect an anonymous source that enabled him to conduct the first independent security review of India's electronic voting system. Prasad spent a year trying to convince election officials to complete such a review, but they insisted that the government-made machines were "perfect" and "tamperproof." Instead of blindly accepting the government's claims, Prasad's international team discovered serious flaws that could alter national election results. Months of hot debate have produced a growing consensus that India's electronic voting machines should be scrapped, and Prasad hopes to help his country build a transparent and verifiable voting system.

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Every day, we rely on our web browsers to keep our communications secure. Whether we are submitting our credit card for purchases, doing online banking, or sending email, the same fundamental security structure is being used. The lock icon displayed by web browsers might give users reason to believe that the prevailing "certificate"-based model is trustworthy, the reality is that many vulnerabilities exist, and the risks are multiplying. Hundreds of different entities located around the world have the ability to issue fraudulent certificates that will nevertheless be trusted by our browsers. Overcoming the shortcomings in the current model and working toward a better model requires cooperation of corporations, the government, developers, and users. Many of the most difficult challenges are not technical in nature but rather social or political.

Keynote:
Andrew McLaughlin, White House Deputy CTO, Internet Policy
Panelists and Respondents:
Peter Eckersley, Senior Staff Technologist, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Adam Langley, Google
Scott Rea, Senior PKI Architect, DigiCert
Ari Schwartz, Senior Internet Policy Advisor, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Paul Vixie, President, Internet Software Consortium

Hosted by Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy and the New America Foundation

This event is free and open to the public.

Wikipedia and similar collaborative technologies have begun to influence the ways that people understand and influence the world.

Representatives from the Wikimedia Foundation will discuss the policies and principles that govern the operations of the Wikipedia community, along with new efforts to make Wikipedia more relevant to governance, debate, and teaching in the broader world of public policy. How are wiki disputes handled? What do the wiki guidelines of "be bold" and "so fix it" mean? What opportunities do professors have to incorporate wiki editing in their curricula? What is the Wikimedia Public Policy Initiative doing on Princeton's campus this year? Several Princeton faculty members will offer their reflections on these questions and others.

Wikimedia Foundation Presenters:
         Rod Dunican, Education Program's Manager
         Pete Forsyth, Public Outreach Officer
         Annie Lin, Campus Team Coordinator

Princeton University:
   Moderator:
         Ed Felten, Computer Science and Public Affairs
   Panelists:
         Paul DiMaggio, Sociology and Public Affairs
         Matt Salganik, Sociology
         Paul Starr, Sociology and Public Affairs

The Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) is a research center located on the third floor of Sherrerd Hall that examines the myriad ways that information technology influences society and introduces policy dilemmas. Our work includes privacy and social media, computer security, broadband policy, government transparency, digital rights management, electronic voting and decision-making, online free speech, and much more. Come at 6:30pm on October 14th to eat, meet current students and faculty, and learn about:

• our new undergrad certificate
• what recent CITP-affiliated undergrads are up to
• how we can help you find internships, jobs, and graduate studies
• research opportunities at the center
• upcoming events
• how to connect with our visiting scholars, who are experts in their fields
• other tech policy connections on campus

  Assuming there is sufficient interest, we may also have a Wii Tennis face-off.

The internet is at once a means for great openness and great control - expression and exclusion. These forces have long been at work online, but have recently come to the fore in debates over the United States' cyber security policy and its increased focus on "internet freedom." The country now has a Cybersecurity "czar" that has presented a 12-part national initiative, and also has a Secretary of State that has forcefully stated the case for internet freedom. But what do these principles mean in practice?

This workshop explores how security and freedom both compliment each other and compete. A spectrum of security risks at different layers of the network beg for technical and governance solutions. Flash points like the recent Google-in-China developments highlight the nexus of security and speech. A growing discourse about internet freedom calls out for workable theories and models. This event will bring together technologists, policymakers, and academics to discuss the state of play and viable ways forward.

This workshop is free and open to the public. To register, please RSVP to citp@princeton.edu with your full name and affiliation. Registered attendees will receive lunch and a name tag.

We live in an increasingly complex world with overlapping, interdependent resource systems that constitute our environment and affect our lives in significant, although sometimes subtle and complex, ways. Too often, we take for granted the fundamental infrastructure resources upon which these systems depend. Professor Frischmann will present draft chapters from his forthcoming book, Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources. This book examines the functional relationships between infrastructure and various infrastructure-dependent systems, and devotes much needed attention to understanding two related issues: how society benefits from infrastructure resources and how decisions about how to manage or govern infrastructure resources affect a wide variety of public and private interests. In particular, Frischmann develops an economic theory focused on the social demand for open infrastructure. The theory is relevant to-and being raised in-a wide range of ongoing debates at the heart of innovation law and policy, ranging from antitrust to intellectual property to network neutrality, among others.

Professor Frischmann is an associate professor at Loyola University Chicago. He teaches in the areas of intellectual property and Internet law. Prior to academia, Professor Frischmann clerked for the Honorable Fred I. Parker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and practiced law at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, DC.

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As computing services move from desktops into "the cloud," new challenges arise in privacy, security, online safety, interoperability, transparency, and intellectual property. Who bears responsibility for addressing these challenges? Do cloud service providers need to step up to new responsibilities? Do we need new government action? Do consumers and others need to contemplate new responsibilities?

Brad Smith is the General Counsel and Senior Vice President, Legal and Corporate Affairs for Microsoft.

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