"The security industry doesn't have a lobby, common sense doesn't have a lobby, technical excellence doesn't have a lobby," he said. "We need to get involved in layers eight and nine – the economic and political spheres. In the coming decade the future of the internet will be decided not by IETF, but by people outside it, and that worries me. I'm not sure they'll do a great job."
This past week saw not one, but two, important conferences - on security, and on mobile technologies. The above quote originates from Bruce Schneier and gave us flashbacks of what is happening presently at the European Parliament.
A dossier just passing through the ITRE committee deals with critical information infrastructure protection. It deals with the update of the critical infrastructure protection directive from 2008, and which priorities should be set for the Commission during the revision. The rapporteur correctly identifies ICT infrastructures as critical, and recommends in the 7th paragraph that the Commission should propose binding measures for Cyber Emergency Response Team cooperation. Only - CERTs in Europe already cooperate fine, at least if one is to believe ENISAs findings from earlier this week.