For years, the world saw the Internet as a creature of theU.S. Department of Defense. Now some claim that the Internet is aself-governing organism controlled by no one and needing nooversight. Although the National Science Foundation and othergovernment agencies continue to support and oversee criticaladministrative and coordinating functions, the Internet is remarkablydecentralized and uninstitutionalized. As it grows in scope,bandwidth, and functionality, the Internet will require greatercoordination, but it is not yet clear what kind of coordinatingmechanisms will evolve.The essays in this volume clarify these issues and suggest possiblemodels for governing the Internet. The topics addressed range fromsettlements and statistics collection to the sprawling problem ofdomain names, which affects the commercial interests of millions ofcompanies around the world. One recurrent theme is the inseparabilityof technical and policy issues in any discussion involving theInternet.Contributors:Guy Almes, Ashley Andeen, Joseph P. Bailey, Steven M. Bellovin, ScottBradner, Richard Cawley, Che-Hoo Cheng, Bilal Chinoy, K Claffy, MariaFarnon, William Foster, Alexander Gigante, Sharon Eisner Gillett, MarkGould, Eric Hoffman, Scott Huddle, Joseph Y. Hui, David R. Johnson,Mitchell Kapor, John Lesley King, Lee W. McKnight, Don Mitchell,Tracie Monk, Milton Mueller, Carl Oppedahl, David G.Post, YakovRekhter, Paul Resnick, A. M. Rutkowski, Timothy J. Salo, PhilipL. Sbarbaro, Robert Shaw.A publication of the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project
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John Platt is the Manager of the Knowledge Tools group at Microsoft Research, and Program Chair of the 2006 NIPS conference.
Bernhard Schölkopf is Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany.
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If the Internet were an organization, how would we describe its management? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
federal antidilution law, public interconnection points, domain name holder, domain name registration authority, name system structure, domain name registration authorities, carl oppedahl, portable addresses, telephone addressing, peering policies, domain name policy, routing arbiter, passive tests, name holders, traffic matrices, interregional transport, international bandwidth, emergent law, interconnection agreements, routing table size, connectivity providers, domain name space, domain name registries, world zone, new registries Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Hong Kong, Network Solutions, New York, World Wide Web, Internet Society, Jon Postel, Internet Engineering Task Force, Federal Networking Council, Internet Data Acquisition, Telecommunications Act, Bell Labs, Clue Computing, Department of Defense, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, Transmission Control Protocol, United Nations, District Court, European Court Reports, European Union, Carl Oppedahl, Internet Architecture Board, Lanham Act, Robert Shaw, United Kingdom New!
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- The Information Infrastructure by Harvard Business School Press on 4 pages
- Internet Economics by Lee W. McKnight on page 323, page 324, and page 403
- The Twilight of Sovereignty by Walter B. Wriston on page 90, and page 91
- Hong Kong (Where We Live) by Donna Bailey on page 409, and page 419
- Civil Procedure by EZ Rules on page 184, and page 185
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- Regulating the Global Information Society (Warwick Studies in Globalisation) by Christopher Marsden on 4 pages
- Community Practice in the Network Society: Local Action / Global Interaction by Peter Day in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Government Reformed: Values and New Political Institutions (Law, Ethics and Governance) by Ian Holland in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Cities in the Telecommunications Age: The Fracturing of Geographies by James O. Wheeler on page 52, and page 53
- Cities in the Telecommunications Age: The Fracturing of Geographies by James O. Wheeler on page 52, and page 53
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