Internet Security: Report on ICANN’s Initiatives and on the Discussions in the European Union

Abstract

One major objective of the distributed architecture of the Internet is precisely that of insulating the networks as a whole from any particular failure. Indeed, as seen, the Internet responded to the 9/11 events very robustly, particularly in the United States and Europe, the loss of a major telecommunications facility adjoining the WTC notwithstanding. But this may not have been the case in more peripheral parts of the Internet; South Africa reported a significant and prolonged outage at the time.