Dear colleagues Here’s the European Commission’s announcement on the EU Protect initiative, which aims to strengthen the EU’s resilience against online and hybrid threats. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_920 It would be good to hear from the members who track this and hopefully examine this roadmap in more details together. Desiree — RIPE Coop WG Co-chair https://www.ripe.net/membership/mail/ripe-mailing-lists/cooperation-wg/
Good afternoon everyone, Just chiming in about a couple of points of the proposal, which I currently think are the most important points to be aware of: - Several of the CC2 / #ChatControl-proposals are (potentially) back under this new umbrella, and particularly the first half of 2025 will see a “Technology Roadmap on encryption to identify and assess technological solutions to enable lawful access to data by law enforcement authorities in 2026”. This is a hot topic in many EU countries currently, the French National Assembly recently rejected a similar proposal, and in Sweden a proposal is likely to come forward to parliament soonish (the proposal was on public request for comments during the fall). - PQC and QKD roadmaps / plans. While the usefulness of PQC (quantum safe cryptography) is undisputed, QKD (e.g. quantum-based cryptography) has faced criticism from expert groups within member states. Despite this, it remains an integral part of ProtectEU. - “European Critical Communication System (EUCCS)”, an idea for a EU-common communications system / architecture for first responders. It might be of interest to members to reason wrt. which role the Internet should have in such a system / architecture. (The communication in text format: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:52025PC0148) The entire initiative itself is quite broad, and does interestingly not contain any references to the potentially upcoming “Digital Networks Act” (fair share and so forth). Br, Fredrik On 2 May 2025, at 12:34, Desiree Miloshevic wrote:
Dear colleagues
Here’s the European Commission’s announcement on the EU Protect initiative, which aims to strengthen the EU’s resilience against online and hybrid threats.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_920
It would be good to hear from the members who track this and hopefully examine this roadmap in more details together.
Desiree — RIPE Coop WG Co-chair https://www.ripe.net/membership/mail/ripe-mailing-lists/cooperation-wg/
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Hi Fredrik, all Following up on this, just to flag that as part of this EU Protect Strategy the European Commission has launched a call for evidence for an ‘Impact assessment on retention of data by service providers for criminal proceedings’, with deadline on 18 June -- you can look at the explanatory note here: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14... all best Romain On Tue, 6 May 2025 at 17:01, Fredrik Lindeberg <flindeberg@netnod.se> wrote:
Good afternoon everyone,
Just chiming in about a couple of points of the proposal, which I currently think are the most important points to be aware of:
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Several of the CC2 / #ChatControl-proposals are (potentially) back under this new umbrella, and particularly the first half of 2025 will see a “Technology Roadmap on encryption to identify and assess technological solutions to enable lawful access to data by law enforcement authorities in 2026”. This is a hot topic in many EU countries currently, the French National Assembly recently rejected a similar proposal, and in Sweden a proposal is likely to come forward to parliament soonish (the proposal was on public request for comments during the fall). -
PQC and QKD roadmaps / plans. While the usefulness of PQC (quantum safe cryptography) is undisputed, QKD (e.g. quantum-based cryptography) has faced criticism from expert groups within member states. Despite this, it remains an integral part of ProtectEU. -
“European Critical Communication System (EUCCS)”, an idea for a EU-common communications system / architecture for first responders. It might be of interest to members to reason wrt. which role the Internet should have in such a system / architecture.
(The communication in text format: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:52025PC0148 )
The entire initiative itself is quite broad, and does interestingly not contain any references to the potentially upcoming “Digital Networks Act” (fair share and so forth).
Br, Fredrik On 2 May 2025, at 12:34, Desiree Miloshevic wrote:
Dear colleagues
Here’s the European Commission’s announcement on the *EU Protect* initiative,
which aims to strengthen the EU’s resilience against online and hybrid threats.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_920
It would be good to hear from the members who track this and hopefully examine this roadmap in more details together.
Desiree
—
RIPE Coop WG Co-chair
https://www.ripe.net/membership/mail/ripe-mailing-lists/cooperation-wg/
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participants (3)
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Desiree Miloshevic -
Fredrik Lindeberg -
Romain Bosc