Rigia,
You paper/analysis does cover the the policy and technical aspects for a redundant (always on) interent service in a given economy. Basically a liberalized internet market with multiple points of connection to the Internet Backbone (read the North and increasingly Asia Pacific region) should be enough to ensure that once and as soon as one international link goes down another one takes over.
But over and above the technical redundancy above, one must have the political redundancy to allow for these redundant links to exchange information. China for example does have multiple redundant links to the Internet Backbone but can decide within a minute to block incoming and outgoing data. And they can do it in a very clever, sophisticated way (using software that provides limited/filtered internet ) as opposed
to the crude way (switch off power or just vandalize the ISPs) approach that is common in African/Arabic economies.
In a seperate example, you will find that even where there is political redundancy (read democracy) the temptation to switch off the internet is never far away (ref: US vs Wikileaks?). So I think the quest for an Internet that can never be switched off is one that can never be achieved. Someone, somewhere will always be able to switch off the Net.
And beneath the ongoing ITU/WCIT negotiations (what negotiators wont put on the table, the hidden cards :-) you just have to decide whether that someone is the UN, the Government, the Private Sector, the Civil Society, the Academia or some hybrid of the above :-)
walu.
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