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Week 3 (1/28): The Governance of Cyberspace
continued
3.1 Architecture and code: control and openness
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Joel Reidenberg, Lex Informatica:
The Formulation of Information Policy Rules through
Technology, 76 Texas L. Rev. 553 (1998), available
at http://reidenberg.home.sprynet.com/lex_informatica.pdf
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Lessig: Code, Architectures of Control:
30-42; The Limits of Open Code: 100-108. |
Optional
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Why Citizens, Education, Government
and Business
Should Care About the Coming Revolution
in Open Source Code Software: http://lweb.law.harvard.edu/opencode/h2o/ |
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Brett M. Frischman, Privatization
and Commercialization of the Internet Infrastructure:
Rethinking Market Intervention into Government
and Government Intervention Into the Market, --
2 Colum. Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 1 - (June 8,
2001) http://www.stlr.org/cite.cgi?volume=2&article=1
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Martin Libicki et al., Scaffolding
the New Web: Standards and Standards Policy for
the Digital Economy, http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1215/ |
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Bill Joy, Why the Future Doesn't
Need Us, 8.04 WIRED 238 (2000), http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html
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Discussion
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Explain Reidenberg's concept of
a Lex Informatica? Why is it significant? |
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Discuss the positive and negative
aspects of Lessig's "architectures of control"
for Internet governance and information society. |
| 3. |
Evaluate Lessig's views on the limits
of open code. |
3.2 ICANN and the domain name system: case study
on Internet governance:
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SAIL: 1080-1088; |
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Memorandum of Understanding Between
the U.S. Dept. of Commerce and Internet Corp.
for Assigned Names and Numbers (Nov. 23, 1998),
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/icann-memorandum.htm |
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Michael M. Roberts, CEO, Internet
Corporation For Assigned Names And Numbers, Before
The Senate Committee On Commerce, Science And
Transportation Subcommittee On Communications,
http://www.senate.gov/%7Ecommerce/hearings/0214rob.pdf |
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Final Rep of the Sec WIPO Internet
DN Process:
http://wipo2.wipo.int/process2/report/index.html:
Summary; |
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Jonathan Weinberg, ICANN and the
Problem of Legitimacy, 50 Duke L. J. 187 (2000),
http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/dlj/articles/dlj50p187.htm
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Froomkin, Of Governments and Governance:
http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/governance.htm
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Optional
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Evans, "Comment on the Second
WIPO Internet Domain Name Process", European
Intellectual Property Review 1 (2001). |
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Michael Froomkin, Wrong Turn in
Cyberspace: Using ICANN to Route Around the APA
and the Constitution, 50 Duke L.J. 17 (2000):
http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/dlj/articles/dlj50p17.htm |
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ICANN: The Movie, available at http://www.paradigm.nu/icann/icannstage.html
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Yochai Benkler, Internet Regulation:
A Case Study in the Problem of Unilateralism,
11 Europ. J. Int'l L. 167 (2000), http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=206828 |
Discussion
| 1. |
Why does the domain name system
constitute a suitable case study for Internet
governance? |
| 2. |
What role does the World Intellectual
Property Organization (WIPO) play in the regulation
of domain names? What conclusions did WIPO come
to in its Second Report into the Internet DN Process? |
| 3. |
Defend the ICANN structure for regulating
Internet domain names? |
| 4. |
Why do Froomkin and Weinberg criticize
ICANN governance? Do they differ in their conclusions? |
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