Member Surveys
INET Topics Survey
Nov 2003, by Michael R. Nelson
The INET/IGC 2004 conference is being held May 10-14 2004, in Barcelona, Spain. Like past annual meetings of the Internet Society, this meeting will bring together technologists, policy experts, representatives of non-governmental organizations, business leaders, reporters, and others from more than 70 countries.
The Call for Papers for the conference is available at www.isoc.org/inet2004 and the deadline for submissions is December 31, 2003.
In order to get guidance from Internet Society members on the topics to be addressed at INET 2004, it would be very useful if you could fill out the following survey:
This survey closed on Monday, December 8, 2003
Survey Results
Results of Cyber Survey #5 "INET Topics Survey"
424 responses in total
| What do you perceive as the greatest “threat to the Net”? |
| Malicious hackers and cyber terrorists: |
26.78% |
| Poorly written software: |
13.02% |
| Spam: |
31.94% |
| Phone companies: |
0.49% |
| Content companies trying to protect their copyrights: |
10.57% |
| Security measures such as firewalls: |
1.72% |
| Governments and inter-governmental organisations: |
15.48% |
| 2. Please answer this question for all of the following categories: which entities will have the greatest influence over the future of the net? |
| Computer software companies |
|
| Most influence: |
7.78% |
| A lot of influence: |
46.23% |
| Some influence: |
30.66% |
| Total: |
84.67% |
| Computer hardware companies: |
|
| Most influence: |
3.78% |
| A lot of influence: |
20.09% |
| Some influence: |
42.32% |
| Total: |
66.19% |
| Network equipment providers: |
|
| Most influence: |
14.22% |
| A lot of influence: |
36.49% |
| Some influence: |
35.55% |
| Total: |
86.26% |
| Content companies: |
|
| Most influence: |
8.98% |
| A lot of influence: |
30.02% |
| Some influence: |
37.35% |
| Total: |
76.35% |
| Internet Service Providers: |
|
| Most influence: |
11.79% |
| A lot of influence: |
31.13% |
| Some influence: |
30.03% |
| Total: |
72.95% |
| Telephone companies: |
|
| Most influence: |
5.19% |
| A lot of influence: |
24.29% |
| Some influence: |
36.79% |
| Total: |
66.27% |
| E-commerce companies: |
3.55% |
| Most influence: |
25.77% |
| A lot of influence: |
41.13% |
| Some influence: |
70.45% |
| Total: |
|
| IETF: |
|
| Most influence: |
13.68% |
| A lot of influence: |
40.57% |
| Some influence: |
31.13% |
| Total: |
85.38% |
| ICANN: |
|
| Most influence: |
7.8% |
| A lot of influence: |
32.86% |
| Some influence: |
34.28% |
| Total: |
74.94% |
| W3C: |
|
| Most influence: |
8.53% |
| A lot of influence: |
33.89% |
| Some influence: |
36.97% |
| Total: |
79.39% |
| Governments: |
|
| Most influence: |
12.56% |
| A lot of influence: |
29.15% |
| Some influence: |
35.07% |
| Total: |
76.78% |
| Inter-governmental organisations (e.g. UN, ITU, WTO): |
|
| Most influence: |
2.59% |
| A lot of influence: |
17.69% |
| Some influence: |
39.39% |
| Total: |
59.67% |
| Individual users: |
|
| Most influence: |
15.8% |
| A lot of influence: |
21.7% |
| Some influence: |
19.58% |
| Total: |
57.08% |
Summary of Results
Summary of the results of Cyber Survey #5 “INET Topics Survey”
More than 400 people responded to this survey. Almost 60% of those perceive malicious hackers, cyber terrorists and Spam as the main threat to the Internet at the moment. More than 15% think that governments and inter-governmental organisations are a threat to the net.
Responses to the question “ Which entities will have the greatest influence over the future of the net?” were very diverse. Many people believe that standards organisations like the IETF (85%) and the World Wide Web Consortium (79%) as well as companies providing technical infrastructure (network equipment (86%), software (85%) , hardware (66%) ) have great influence over the future of the Internet. It is worth noting that individuals and consumers are also seen as an influential group (more than 50%).
This clearly shows that there is not one organisation ‘ruling' the Internet, but that all organisations and individuals involved in the Internet contribute to its success.
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