Jari Arkko's opening session speech at the 2016 IGF in
Guadalajara, Mexico, December 2016.

Thank you. I'm pleased to be in Mexico and in this
conference. The topics of the week are very important.

To begin with, I wanted to join others who noted the
IANA transition in their speech. I want to congratulate
the Internet ecosystem for successful completion of the
project. The new arrangements are in effect and working
well.

There, done! Time to move on. Lets talk about ongoing
efforts and future challenges.

Many of you have noted the important task of connecting
the remaining billions of people to the Internet. That
is a very important task ahead of us.

But ladies and gentlemen, that is NOT enough.  Not just
a matter of high-speed broadband. Quality AND
quantity. The openness, the local content, and avoiding
excessive surveillance or censorship.

Three years ago I was in my first IGF in Bali. At the
time the Snowden revelations had come to light, and I
talked about how we at the Internet Engineering Task
Force or IETF had started to react to it, and asked for
your help in working together on this topic. 

Many things have happened since then, and I wanted to
give you a brief report of where we are.

In short, the IETF decided pervasive surveillance is
just like any other threat, something that we need to
do our best in protecting against. We have been
updating protocols to help with this.

We replaced weak algorithms, designed new protocols to
better support your web browsing, for instance. If you
want to know about the details, I would like to refer
you to an article that appeared today in The Register:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/06/ietf_report_card/

At the same time, the world's service providers have
also taken steps in improving security. As an
indication of a big global change, encrypted
communications are now a majority of the traffic
in many networks.

One of the efforts that we currently are working with
at the IETF is a new transport protocol that is likely
to replace many of the current TCP connections,
providing security and efficiency benefits to users.

And maybe a new protocol is just a detail, but there's
an architectural change in that puts the endpoints and
applications even more in charge than they were
before. Expect to see much faster technology evolution
when changes do not require kernel updates.

While there is plenty of work left to do -- for
instance helping operators deal with traffic management
in all-encrypted world -- I’m proud of the progress to
date, and look forward to working further on this topic
with you all.

Thank you.