5.4. International cooperation Internet resilience and stability. Three complementary activities are envisaged • European priorities on long term Internet resilience and stability. The Commission will drive a Europe-wide debate, involving all relevant public and private stakeholders, to define EU priorities for the long term resilience and stability of the Internet. Target: end of 2010 for EU priorities on critical Internet components and issues. • Principles and guidelines for Internet resilience and stability (European level). The Commission will work with Member States to define guidelines for the resilience and stability of the Internet, focusing inter alia on regional remedial actions, mutual assistance agreements, coordinated recovery and continuity strategies, geographical distribution of critical Internet resources, technological safeguards in the architecture and protocols of the Internet, replication and diversity of services and data. The Commission is already funding a task force for DNS resiliency that, together with other relevant projects, will help build the consensus.30 Target: end of 2009 for a European roadmap towards principles and guidelines for Internet resilience and stability; end of 2010 for agreeing on the first draft of such principles and guidelines. • Principles and guidelines for Internet resilience and stability (global level). The Commission will work with Member States on a roadmap to promote principles and guidelines at the global level. Strategic cooperation with third countries will be developed, notably in Information Society dialogues, as a vehicle to build global consensus.31 Target: beginning of 2010 for a roadmap for international cooperation on principles and guidelines for security and resilience; end of 2010 for the first draft of internationally recognised principles and guidelines to be discussed with third countries and in relevant fora, including the Internet Governance Forum. Global exercises on recovery and mitigation of large scale Internet incidents. The Commission invites European stakeholders to • reflect on a practical way to extend at the global level the exercises being conducted under the mitigation and recovery pillar, building upon regional contingency plans and capabilities. Target: end of 2010 for the Commission to propose a framework and a roadmap to support the European involvement and participation in global exercises on recovery and mitigation of large-scale Internet incidents. 30 31 EN Supra 27 COM(2008)588 final 10 EN