Ruling The Root

Author : Milton L. Mueller
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262263793
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ruling the Root written by Milton L. Mueller and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-01-23 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ruling the Root, Milton Mueller uses the theoretical framework of institutional economics to analyze the global policy and governance problems created by the assignment of Internet domain names and addresses. "The root" is the top of the domain name hierarchy and the Internet address space. It is the only point of centralized control in what is otherwise a distributed and voluntaristic network of networks. Both domain names and IP numbers are valuable resources, and their assignment on a coordinated basis is essential to the technical operation of the Internet. Mueller explains how control of the root is being leveraged to control the Internet itself in such key areas as trademark and copyright protection, surveillance of users, content regulation, and regulation of the domain name supply industry. Control of the root originally resided in an informally organized technical elite comprised mostly of American computer scientists. As the Internet became commercialized and domain name registration became a profitable business, a six-year struggle over property rights and the control of the root broke out among Internet technologists, business and intellectual property interests, international organizations, national governments, and advocates of individual rights. By the late 1990s, it was apparent that only a new international institution could resolve conflicts among the factions in the domain name wars. Mueller recounts the fascinating process that led to the formation of a new international regime around ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. In the process, he shows how the vaunted freedom and openness of the Internet is being diminished by the institutionalization of the root.

Author : Milton L. Mueller
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262263795
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ruling the Root written by Milton L. Mueller and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-01-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ruling the Root, Milton Mueller uses the theoretical framework of institutional economics to analyze the global policy and governance problems created by the assignment of Internet domain names and addresses. "The root" is the top of the domain name hierarchy and the Internet address space. It is the only point of centralized control in what is otherwise a distributed and voluntaristic network of networks. Both domain names and IP numbers are valuable resources, and their assignment on a coordinated basis is essential to the technical operation of the Internet. Mueller explains how control of the root is being leveraged to control the Internet itself in such key areas as trademark and copyright protection, surveillance of users, content regulation, and regulation of the domain name supply industry. Control of the root originally resided in an informally organized technical elite comprised mostly of American computer scientists. As the Internet became commercialized and domain name registration became a profitable business, a six-year struggle over property rights and the control of the root broke out among Internet technologists, business and intellectual property interests, international organizations, national governments, and advocates of individual rights. By the late 1990s, it was apparent that only a new international institution could resolve conflicts among the factions in the domain name wars. Mueller recounts the fascinating process that led to the formation of a new international regime around ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. In the process, he shows how the vaunted freedom and openness of the Internet is being diminished by the institutionalization of the root.

Author : Milton Mueller
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262632980
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ruling the Root written by Milton Mueller and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 2004-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the complex, frequently contentious, issues of Internet governance and the formation of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.

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Download or read book Pamphlets Relating to Weights and Measures in Minnesota written by and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Minnesota Historical Society Pamphlet Collection contains pamphlets and printed ephemera relating to history of state inspection and weighing of the grain trade, specification and tolerances for scales and measures, etc.

Author : Daniel J. Paré
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742518469
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Internet Governance in Transition written by Daniel J. Paré and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Internet users will find this book a useful tool for understanding the increasingly complex web of Internet control.

Author : Benjamin R. Barber
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030016467X
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If Mayors Ruled the World written by Benjamin R. Barber and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time--climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns, and people--the nations of the world seem paralyzed. The problems are too big for governments to deal with. Benjamin Barber contends that cities, and the mayors who run them, can do and are doing a better job than nations. He cites the unique qualities cities worldwide share: pragmatism, civic trust, participation, indifference to borders and sovereignty, and a democratic penchant for networking, creativity, innovation, and cooperation. He demonstrates how city mayors, singly and jointly, are responding to transnational problems more effectively than nation-states mired in ideological infighting and sovereign rivalries. The book features profiles of a dozen mayors around the world, making a persuasive case that the city is democracy's best hope in a globalizing world, and that great mayors are already proving that this is so"--

Author : Barry R. Ziman
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 166570862X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Girls, Crimes, and the Ruling Body written by Barry R. Ziman and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A legislative intern with secrets that could unravel the governing elite vanishes into the night in Albany, New York. Seven years later, another young woman disappears in a suburb of the nation’s Capital. The only connection between both missing women is Ryan McNeil, the chief of staff to a rising congressman. Under suspicion, Ryan must now prove his innocence in these women’s abductions, but in the ruthless world of politics—where the line between crime and lawful authority blurs—there is no one he can trust. With his life at stake, Ryan confronts the elaborate lies of his lover, his wife, and his political mentor to uncover the identities of a murderer and manipulator. While Ryan tries desperately to maintain his relationship with his wife and stepdaughter, the desires and deceits of those around him undermine his family and also the integrity of government. Innocent of murder, but implicated in this political world of deception, Ryan discovers the only truth is power. “... the pace of the story is consistently propulsive throughout, which is sure to maintain readers’ interest.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Milton L. Mueller
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262288796
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Networks and States written by Milton L. Mueller and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010-09-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How institutions for Internet governance are emerging from the tension between the territorially bound nation-state and a transnational network society. When the prevailing system of governing divides the planet into mutually exclusive territorial monopolies of force, what institutions can govern the Internet, with its transnational scope, boundless scale, and distributed control? Given filtering/censorship by states and concerns over national cybersecurity, it is often assumed that the Internet will inevitably be subordinated to the traditional system of nation-states. In Networks and States, Milton Mueller counters this, showing how Internet governance poses novel and fascinating governance issues that give rise to a global politics and new transnational institutions. Drawing on theories of networked governance, Mueller provides a broad overview of Internet governance from the formation of ICANN to the clash at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the formation of the Internet Governance Forum, the global assault on peer-to-peer file sharing, and the rise of national-level Internet control and security concerns. Internet governance has become a source of conflict in international relations. Networks and States explores the important role that emerging transnational institutions could play in fostering global governance of communication-information policy.

Author : Jonathan Zittrain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Book Review written by Jonathan Zittrain and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yoram Gorlizki
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195304209
Total Pages : 259 pages
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Download or read book Cold Peace written by Yoram Gorlizki and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on previously unavailable archival sources, this award-winning book examines the least understood phase of Stalin's rule through the despot's relations with his closest colleagues.