The internet and global governance: Principles and norms for a new regime

Global Governance

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 237-254

  Mueller, Milton ^a,b   Mathiason, John ^b,c   Klein, Hans ^d  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Internet Governance Project

^c SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Framework convention; ICANN; Internet governance; Regime theory; World summit on the information society

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250703764     PISSN: 10752846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/19426720-01302007     Document Type: Review

References (22)

1. Bill Clinton and Al Gore, "A Framework for Global Electronic Commerce," 1 July 1997, available at www.technology.gov/digeconomy/ framewrk.htm.
2. Ibid.
3. US Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, "Management of Internet Names and Addresses" (white paper), 63 PR 31741-01, 10 June 1998.
4. For a more detailed history of the gTLD-MoU, see Milton L. Mueller, Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002), chap. 7.
5. Hans Klein, "Understanding WSIS: An Institutional Analysis of the UN World Summit on the Information Society," Information Technology and International Development 1, no. 3-4 (Spring-Summer 2004): pp. 3-13.
6. Resolution 73, Plenipotentiary Conference of the ITU, Minneapolis, 1998, available at www.itu.int/council/wsis/R73.html.
7. General Assembly Res. 56/183, 90th Plenary Meeting, 21 December 2001.
8. US Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, "Management of Internet Names and Addresses" (white paper), Docket No. 980212036-8146-02, 5 June 1998, available at www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/6_5_98dns.htm.
9. World Summit on the Information Society "Plan of Action," Doc. WSIS-03/GENEVA/DOC/5-E, 13 December 2003, pp. 6-7.
10. WGIG Final Report, "Report of the Working Group on Internet Governance," available at www.wgig.org.
11. Report of the Working Group on Internet Governance, Château de Bossey, June 2005, UN Doc. 05.41622, p. 11, available at www.wgig.org/docs/ WGIGREPORT.pdf.
12. Tunis Agenda for the Information Society, WSIS-05/TUNIS/DOC/6(Rev. 1)-E, 18 November 2005, available at www.itu.int/wsis.
13. Tunis Agenda, par. 68.
14. Tunis Agenda, par. 70.
15. Steven D. Krasner, "Structural Causes and Regime Consequences: Regimes as Intervening Variables," in Steven D. Krasner, ed., International Regimes (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983).
16. Ibid., p. 19.
17. Mueller, Ruling the Root, chap. 2.
18. For a record of some of these discussions, see Don MacLean, ed., Internet Governance: A Grand Collaboration (New York: United Nations ICT Task Force, 2004).
19. D. R. Johnson and D. G. Post, "And How Shall the Net Be Governed? A Meditation on the Relative Virtues of Decentralized, Emergent Law," in Brian Kahin and James Keller, eds., Coordinating the Internet (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997).
20. J. Saltzer, D. Reed, and D. Clark, "End-to-End Arguments in System Design," ACM Transactions on Computer 2, no. 4 (November 1984): 277-288.
21. Krasner, "Structural Causes."
22. For an example of the application of this norm to domain name policy, see M. Mueller and L. McKnight, "The Post-Corn Internet: Toward Regular and Objective Procedures for Internet Governance," Telecommunications Policy 28, no. 7-8 (2004): 487-502.