Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace
Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace
ISBN: 0262134128
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 110
Pages: 110
Authors: Milton L. Mueller
- Table of Contents
- BackCover
- Ruling the Root-Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace
- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Problem of the Root
- 1.1 A Constitutional Moment
- 1.2 The Root
- 1.3 Governance
- 1.4 Institutionalization
- 1.5 Goals and Plan of the Book
- Part I: The Root as Resource
- Chapter 2: The Basic Political Economy of Identifiers
- 2.2 Defining the Space
- 2.3 Assigning Unique Values
- 2.4 Governance Arrangements
- 2.5 An Example: The Ethernet Address Space
- 2.6 Review of the Framework
- Chapter 3: The Internet Name and Address Spaces
- 3.1 The Internet Address Space
- 3.1.1 Routers and IP Addresses
- 3.2 The Internet Name Space
- 3.3 The DNS Root
- 3.4 Conclusion
- Chapter 4: The Root and Institutional Change: Analytical Framework
- 4.1 Formation of Property Rights
- 4.2 Property Rights
- 4.3 Technological Change, Endowment, and Appropriation
- 4.4 Institutionalization
- 4.5 Applying the Framework to Internet Governance
- Part II: The Story of the Root
- Chapter 5: Growing the Root
- 5.1 Prehistory
- 5.2 The Origin of the Root
- 5.3 Growth and Convergence
- 5.4 Growth and Governance
- 5.5 Who Controlled the Root?
- Chapter 6: Appropriating the Root: Property Rights Conflicts
- 6.1 Endowment: Commercial Use and the World Wide Web
- 6.2 Conflicts over Second-Level Domains
- 6.2.1 Domain Name Disputes
- 6.3 Conflicts over Top-Level Domains
- 6.4 Conflicts over the Root
- Chapter 7: The Root in Play
- 7.1 IAHC and the gTLD-MoU
- 7.2 Political Reaction to the gTLD-MoU
- 7.3 Challenges to Network Solutions
- 7.4 The U.S. Government Intervenes
- 7.5 The Green Paper and Its Aftermath
- Chapter 8: Institutionalizing the Root: The Formation of ICANN
- 8.1 From Green Paper to White Paper
- 8.2 The International Forum on the White Paper
- Chapter 9: The New Regime
- 9.1 Redistributing the Riches of .com: Registrar Accreditation
- 9.2 Branding the Name Space: WHOIS and UDRP
- 9.3 The Assimilation of Network Solutions
- 9.4 U.S. Government Policy Authority over the Root
- 9.5 Representation: Barriers to Entry
- 9.6 New Top-Level Domains
- 9.7 Country Codes and National Governments
- Part III: Issues and Themes
- Chapter 10: ICANN as Global Regulatory Regime
- 10.1 What ICANN Is Not
- 10.2 What ICANN Is
- 10.2.1 Rights to Names
- 10.3 Forces Affecting ICANN s Future
- Chapter 11: Global Rights to Names
- 11.1 A Web Site by Any Other Name . . .
- 11.2 Expanding Trademark Rights
- 11.3 New Rights in Names: WIPO 2
- 11.4 Free Expression vs. Controlled Vocabulary
- 11.5 DNS vs. WIPO
- Chapter 12: Property Rights and Institutional Change: Some Musings on Theory
- 12.2 Who Owns the Name Space?
- Chapter 13: The Taming of the Net
- Selected Acronyms
- Notes
- Chapter 2: The Basic Political Economy of Identifiers
- Chapter 3: The Internet Name and Address Spaces
- Chapter 4: The Root and Institutional Change: Analytical Framework
- Chapter 5: Growing the Root
- Chapter 6: Appropriating the Root: Property Rights Conflicts
- Chapter 7: The Root in Play
- Chapter 8: Institutionalizing the Root: The Formation of ICANN
- Chapter 9: The New Regime
- Chapter 10: ICANN as Global Regulatory Regime
- Chapter 11: Global Rights to Names
- Chapter 12: Property Rights and Institutional Change: Some Musings on Theory
- References
- Index
- Index_B
- Index_C
- Index_D
- Index_E
- Index_F
- Index_G
- Index_H
- Index_I
- Index_J-K
- Index_L
- Index_M
- Index_N
- Index_O
- Index_P
- Index_R
- Index_S
- Index_T
- Index_U
- Index_V-Y
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace
ISBN: 0262134128
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 110
Pages: 110
Authors: Milton L. Mueller