Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace

Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace
Type	think-tank
Interests	cyberwar, internet
Membership	•  Michael Chertoff •  Latha Reddy •  Marina Kaljurand •  Motohiro Tsuchiya •  Joseph Nye •  Christopher Painter •  Ilya Sachkov •  Jeff Moss •  Khoo Boon Hui •  Anriette Esterhuysen •  Xiaodong Lee •  Abdul-Hakeem Ajijola •  Virgilio Almeida •  Marietje Schaake •  Bill Woodcock •  Wolfgang Kleinwächter •  Scott Charney •  Elina Noor •  Isaac Ben-Israel •  Jonathan Zittrain •  Nigel Inkster •  Jane Holl Lute •  Samir Saran •  Frédérick Douzet •  Olaf Kolkman •  James Andrew Lewis •  Uri Rosenthal •  William Saito •  Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg •  Sigrid Kaag •  Hugo Zylberberg •  Sean Kanuck •  Koichiro Komiyama •  Marília Maciel •  Liis Vihul •  Zhang Li •  Vint Cerf •  Sorin Ducaru •  Martha Finnemore •  Carl Bildt •  Alexander Klimburg •  Bruce McConnell •  Louk Faesen •  Anneleen Roggeman
Small but influential think-tank for internet coordination

The Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC) is helping to promote mutual awareness and understanding among the various cyberspace communities working on issues related to international cybersecurity.

8 norms

In 2019, it presented 8 norms for acceptable internet behavior.

• Norm 1 is non-interference with the public core of the Internet. State and non-state actors should neither conduct nor knowingly allow activity that intentionally and substantially damages the general availability or integrity of the public core of the Internet, and therefore the stability of cyberspace.

• Norm 2 is to protect the electoral infrastructure. State and non-state actors must not pursue, support or allow cyber operations intended to disrupt the technical infrastructure essential to elections, referenda or plebiscites.

• Norm 3 is to avoid tampering. State and non-state actors should not tamper with products and services in development and production, nor allow them to be tampered with, if doing so may substantially impair the stability of cyberspace.

• Norm 4 against commandeering of ICT devices into Botnets. State and non-state actors should not commandeer the general public’s ICT resources for use as botnets or for similar purposes.

• Norm 5 For states to create a vulnerabilities equities process.States should create procedurally transparent frameworks to assess whether and when to disclose not publicly known vulnerabilities or flaws they are aware of in information systems and technologies. The default presumption should be in favor of disclosure.

• Norm 6 To reduce and mitigate significant vulnerabilities.Developers and producers of products and services on which the stability of cyberspace depends should (1) prioritize security and stability, (2) take reasonable steps to ensure that their products or services are free from significant vulnerabilities, and (3) take measures to timely mitigate vulnerabilities that are later discovered and to be transparent about their process. All actors have a duty to share information on vulnerabilities in order to help prevent or mitigate malicious cyber activity.

• Norm 7 on basic cyber hygiene as foundational defense.States should enact appropriate measures, including laws and regulations, to ensure basic cyber hygiene.

• Norm 8 against offensive cyber operations by non-state actors.Non-state actors should not engage in offensive cyber operations and state actors should prevent such activities and respond if they occur.

NATO

Despite its international character, with members from China, Russia and India etc, it is noticeably dominated by NATO; the leader is Homeland Security Czar Michael Chertoff, it is founded by the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies and having people from the Netherlands and Estonia, two of the most active NATO-members in creating and spreading propaganda and cyber operations, in prominent positions. And Carl Bildt is a special advisor.

Funders

The Commission is initiated by two think tanks, The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) and the EastWest Institute (EWI).

Partners:

• Government of The Netherlands
• Microsoft Corporation
• Cyber Security Agency Singapore
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France
• [[Internet Society] (ISOC)
• Afilias

Sponsors:

• Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland
• GLOBSEC
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia
• Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan

Supporters:

• African Union Commission
• Black Hat USA
• DEF CON
• European Union Delegation to the UN in Geneva
• Global Forum on Cyber Expertise
• Google
• Municipality of The Hague
• Packet Clearing House
• Tel Aviv University
• United Nations Institute for Disarmament

 

Known members

10 of the 44 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
Carl Bildt	Swedish deep politician, serial Bilderberger and visitor to the MSC. Sitting on an impressive number of deep state related commissions.
Vint Cerf	A father of the internet as part of military research. Later evangelist for Google.
Michael Chertoff	A long-standing US Republican Party apparatchik and dual US/Israeli citizen who has held senior US legal and national security positions.
Nigel Inkster	UK spook into carbon trading
Sigrid Kaag	Dutch diplomat and politician. Although an outspoken feminist, Kaag vocally opposed a public trial regarding dozen of reports of sexual abuse within her own party. A successful and career-diplomat, named by Geert Wilders as the "namesake of a runway at Schiphol Airport", she has attended two Bilderberg meetings.
Jeff Moss	Founder of the Black Hat & DEF CON computer Hacker conferences
Joseph Nye	US deep state connected academic who wrote in June 2021 that Vaccinating the world against Covid-19 is in America’s national interest
Uri Rosenthal	Dutch politician
Marietje Schaake	Dutch spooky euro-politician. Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace
Jonathan Zittrain	WEF AGM repeat visitor, GLT 2000, YGL 2005, CFR and EFF member

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