Olaf Kolkman is the Principal - Internet Technology, Policy, and Advocacy at the Internet Society. He is a senior advisor to, and spokesperson of, the Internet Society. He formulates, reviews and advises on technical and policy positions.
Olaf has a long experience in Internet technology and policy matters, in
particular those related to security and trustworthiness of the Internet. He is a board member of the Global Forum on Expertise in Cyberspace and a commissioner of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
Latest posts
11 May 2022
Two Months of War: The Impact on the Internet’s Core
Will the war in Ukraine have a lasting impact on the underlying fabric of the Internet? We used data...
Internet Way of Networking
17 December 2021
NIS2 Inconsistency – a DNS Supply Chain Perspective
The European Union’s Network and Information Security directive (NIS2) is missing an opportunity to foster accountability across the entire...
Internet Way of Networking
5 November 2021
NIS2 – Security, Resiliency, and DNS server infrastructure
Right now, the European Union is developing their second Network and Information Security directive (NIS2) and I am concerned...
Encryption
8 March 2021
Not the Encryption Apocalypse…Yet
“This destroys the RSA cryptosystem.” That is the last sentence in the abstract of a new, preliminary, dense mathematical...
Internet Way of Networking
27 April 2020
Discussion Paper Now Available about the New-IP Proposal
In the run up to the ITU World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA-20) later this year there has been some discussion...
Building Trust
10 January 2020
‘Major Initiatives in Cybersecurity’ Shows Everyone Can Contribute to Trust
How do we work toward a more secure Internet? In the Cyber Security discussions that take place in the...