URIICA, the Union for
Representative International Internet Cooperation and Analysis, probably should have had a better name and acronym. But the new organization, co-founded by Lauren Weinstein, Peter Neumann and Dave Farber, is taking on a vital task.
From the open letter on the organization’s home page:
The Internet has become too important for its development, management,security, and other critical aspects to continue largely on an ad hocbasis. Internet-related issues, which now impact our world and lives in avast number of ways, are usually approached in isolation from one another byexisting organizations, and often in parochial and non-representative ways.
We submit that a new organization is needed, created specifically to provideguidance relating to Internet functions and issues on an international andtruly representative basis. Such an organization could also help establishconfidence that the Internet exists to benefit people everywhere, not merelycommercial and other special interests. We offer URIICA — Union forRepresentative International Internet Cooperation and Analysis — as apossible first step towards building such a future.