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Wolfgang Kleinwächter - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Icann as the `United Nations' of the Global Information Society? The Long Road Towards Self-Regulation of the Internet
    International Communication Gazette, 2000
    Co-Authors: Wolfgang Kleinwächter
    Abstract:

    In October 1998 the `Internet Corporation for Assignment of Names and Numbers' (ICANN), a Global, not-for-profit private organization responsible for the governance of the Internet, was established under Californian law. The new corporation will be fully operational by October 2000. ICANN represents the Global Public Internet community as well as private industry involved in electronic commerce and has the mandate to coordinate and control the technical protocols of the Internet, the Internet address space, the Internet domain name system (DNS) and the Internet root server system. The article describes the efforts by the international community to create a mechanism for Global Internet governance, and in particular for the DNS, the so-called `territory of cyberspace', where conflict between holders of domain names and trademarks has been growing over the years. After initial efforts failed to create a new mechanism under the Internet Society in 1995 and under the International Telecommunication Union (ITU...

  • ICANN between technical mandate and political challenges
    Telecommunications Policy, 2000
    Co-Authors: Wolfgang Kleinwächter
    Abstract:

    In October 1998, the "Internet Corporation for the Assigned Numbers and Names" (ICANN), a Global non-for-profit private organisation responsible for the governance of the Internet, was established under Californian Law. The new corporation will be fully operational until October 2000. ICANN represents the Global Public Internet Community as well as the private industry involved in electronic commerce and has the mandate to coordinate and control the technical protocols of the Internet, the Internet address space, the Internet domain name system (DNS) and the Internet root server system. The article describes the first steps ICANN took after its incorporation and the conflicts the Corporation faced when it made technical decisions that had political implications. It discusses also the need for the development of new governance systems in the information age.

Nancy E. Paterson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Bandwidth is Political: Reachability in the Public Internet
    SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
    Co-Authors: Nancy E. Paterson
    Abstract:

    The Global Public Internet faces a growing but little studied threat from the use of intrusive traffic management practices by both wholesale and retail Internet service providers. Unlike research concerned with bandwidth and traffic growth, this study shifts the risk analysis away from capacity issues to focus on performance standards for interconnection and data reachability. The long-term health of the Internet is framed in terms of “data reachability” – the principle that any end-user can reach any part of the Internet without encountering arbitrary actions on the part of a network operator that might block or degrade transmission. Risks to reachability are framed in terms of both systematic traffic management practices and “de-peering,” a more aggressive tactic practised by Tier-1 network operators to resolve disputes or punish rivals.De-peering is examined as an extension of retail network management practices that include the growing use of deep packet inspection (DPI) technology for traffic-shaping. De-peering can also be viewed as a close relative of Net Neutrality, to the extent that both concepts reflect arbitrary practices that interfere with the reliable flow of data packets across the Internet. In jurisdictional terms, however, de-peering poses a qualitatively different set of risks to stakeholders and end-users, as well as qualitatively different challenges to policymakers.It is argued here that risks to data unreachability represent the next stage in debates about the health and sustainability of the Global Internet. The study includes a detailed examination of the development of the Internet’s enabling technologies; the evolution of telecommunications regulation in Canada and the United States, and its impact on Internet governance; and an analysis of the role played by commercialization and privatization in the growth of risks to data reachability.

Nancy Paterson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • iConference - Walled gardens: the new shape of the Public Internet
    Proceedings of the 2012 iConference on - iConference '12, 2012
    Co-Authors: Nancy Paterson
    Abstract:

    This paper argues that the Global Public Internet is undergoing a long-term transformation from a uniform transmission platform to one in which data reachability will be increasingly compromised by emerging technical, political and commercial choices. This phenomenon is not new. It reflects changes away from the original end-to-end principle as a guiding design concept in Internet engineering, as well as in the various forms of IP (Internet protocol) filtering exercised by governments and other institutions around the world. The emphasis in this paper, however, is on less controversial developments, especially the growth in managed IP services and deployments of MPLS (multiprotocol label switching). The browser-centric Public Web has been giving way to 'apps' and 'walled gardens'.

Walter Goralski - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Expanded Uses for BGP
    The Illustrated Network, 2020
    Co-Authors: Walter Goralski
    Abstract:

    In this chapter, you will learn more about the newer features of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). BGP, as we have seen, is the main way that information about routes gets around the Global Public Internet. Once used exclusively for spreading “routing about routing” information, BGP now forms the basis for many advanced capabilities.

  • Protocols and Layers
    The Illustrated Network, 2020
    Co-Authors: Walter Goralski
    Abstract:

    In this chapter, you will learn about the protocol stack used on the Global Public Internet and how these protocols have been evolving in today’s world. We’ll review some key basic definitions and see the network used to illustrate all of the examples in this book, as well as the packet content, the role that hosts and routers play on the network, and how graphic user and command line interfaces (GUI and CLI, respectively) both are used to interact with devices.