Maarten Botterman Advocates for Regional Internet Trust Building Through Standards and Practice
Maarten Botterman, a prominent figure in the Internet community and coordinator of the GFCE Triple-I initiative, emphasizes the critical need to move from theoretical knowledge to practical implementation in building a safer and more resilient internet. Drawing from his nine years on the ICANN Board and extensive experience with capacity-building workshops, Botterman highlights that internet security, stability, and resilience depend on the cooperative decisions of thousands of actors, including network operators, governments, businesses, and civil society. He stresses that capacity building involves not only explaining best practices but also demonstrating their effectiveness, measuring current progress, and empowering stakeholders to collaborate on future actions. Botterman points out that many technical measures for internet and email security, such as DNSSEC, RPKI, TLS, DANE, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and IPv6, are already available but only become effective through widespread and correct deployment. He advoca... 
