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Protocol politics : the globalization of Internet governance / Laura DeNardis.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Information revolution & global politicsPublication details: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (x, 270 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262258739
  • 0262258730
  • 1282694421
  • 9781282694422
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Protocol politics.DDC classification:
  • 384.3/3 22
LOC classification:
  • TK5105.8854 .D46 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Scarcity and Internet governance ; Scarcity ; Protocols ; An Internet governance framework ; Organization of protocol politics -- 2. Protocol selection as power selection ; Protocol globalization ; Defining the global Internet ; Institutional crisis ; Beyond markets ; US corporate customer perspective ; ISO standard and IETF standard compared ; Announcement of IPv6 ; Themes in protocol development -- 3. Architecting civil liberties ; Values in protocol design ; Privacy design choices ; A public relations issue ; Architecting privacy ; European Union privacy concerns ; Protocols and the public interest ; Openness as a value in protocol design -- 4. The politics of protocol adoption ; The lost decade and the e-Japan strategy ; European Union Internet strategy ; IPv6 momentum in Asia ; Protocols and economic competition ; Cybersecurity and distributed warfare ; Concerns about US economic competitiveness ; Protocol hearing on Capitol Hill ; Protocols as social intervention ; Questioning IPv6 security ; Reality check on IPv6 deployments ; Protocol transition challenges ; Transition prospects -- 5. The Internet address space : Internet resources circa 1969 ; Distributing limited resources ; Initial Internet address constraints ; Address conservation strategies ; Internationalizing Internet addresses ; Global conflict over Internet resources ; International impasse ; Prospects for a market solution ; Thoughts about the sufficiency of the IPv6 address space -- 6. Opening Internet governance ; Political and economic implications of protocols : a framework ; Values in protocols ; Conceptions of openness ; Best practices in Internet standards governance ; The limits of technical inevitability.
Summary: What are the global implications of the looming shortage of Internet addresses and the slow deployment of the new IPv6 protocol designed to solve this problem? This book looks at this question and much more.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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What are the global implications of the looming shortage of Internet addresses and the slow deployment of the new IPv6 protocol designed to solve this problem? This book looks at this question and much more.

1. Scarcity and Internet governance ; Scarcity ; Protocols ; An Internet governance framework ; Organization of protocol politics -- 2. Protocol selection as power selection ; Protocol globalization ; Defining the global Internet ; Institutional crisis ; Beyond markets ; US corporate customer perspective ; ISO standard and IETF standard compared ; Announcement of IPv6 ; Themes in protocol development -- 3. Architecting civil liberties ; Values in protocol design ; Privacy design choices ; A public relations issue ; Architecting privacy ; European Union privacy concerns ; Protocols and the public interest ; Openness as a value in protocol design -- 4. The politics of protocol adoption ; The lost decade and the e-Japan strategy ; European Union Internet strategy ; IPv6 momentum in Asia ; Protocols and economic competition ; Cybersecurity and distributed warfare ; Concerns about US economic competitiveness ; Protocol hearing on Capitol Hill ; Protocols as social intervention ; Questioning IPv6 security ; Reality check on IPv6 deployments ; Protocol transition challenges ; Transition prospects -- 5. The Internet address space : Internet resources circa 1969 ; Distributing limited resources ; Initial Internet address constraints ; Address conservation strategies ; Internationalizing Internet addresses ; Global conflict over Internet resources ; International impasse ; Prospects for a market solution ; Thoughts about the sufficiency of the IPv6 address space -- 6. Opening Internet governance ; Political and economic implications of protocols : a framework ; Values in protocols ; Conceptions of openness ; Best practices in Internet standards governance ; The limits of technical inevitability.

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