[WSIS CS-Plenary] SG stresses cyber-security in statement on World Information Society Day

[Ralf Bendrath]

richard jordan wrote:
> If I am not in error, there was a GA Resolution that created some
> type of cyber security working group that was to report back to the
> SG?? Not sure of this exactly, but pretty certain that this was a
> mandate and did not appear all of a sudden.

The "governmental" (!) experts group delivered its report in 2005, there 
will be a new one, to be set up in 2009:

"The General Assembly (...) Requests the Secretary-General, with the 
assistance of a group of governmental experts, to be established in 2009 
on the basis of equitable geographical distribution, to continue to study 
existing and potential threats in the sphere of information security and 
possible cooperative measures to address them, as well as the concepts 
referred to in paragraph 2 above, and to submit a report on the results of 
this study to the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session;"

A/RES/60/45, 8 December 2005, 
<http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N05/490/30/PDF/N0549030.pdf?OpenElement>

Note: The United States were the only government to vote against this, see 
<http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N05/632/48/PDF/N0563248.pdf?OpenElement>, 
page 17-18).
Anyone know why?

Ralf