International cyber group issues 'call to action' to protect internet availability and stability

Members of the nongovernmental Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace -- including former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and former DHS Deputy Secretary Jane Holl Lute -- have published a “call to action” for internet stakeholders to protect the availability and “public core” of the internet.

The declaration encourages both state and non-state actors to not conduct any activities that might damage the “general availability or integrity of the internet,” in recognition of the global dependence on the...