Policy decisions should preserve the distributed architecture of the internet

Governments and private companies should think twice before implementing policy decisions that could irrevocably affect the internet’s architecture of multiple interdependent networks, argued Isabel Skierka during a panel discussion on the future of internet governance at the International Conference on Cyber Conflict in Tallinn on May 27. The internet’s decentralized nature has been essential to the safeguarding of civil liberties, Skierka said, and Europe has a key role in preserving the internet’s open architecture and setting high data protection standards for future users.