Table of Contents

Part 1 The problem of Internet governance: The self-governing Internet - coordination by design, Sharon Eisner Guillett, Mitchell Kapor; Governance of the Internet - a UK perspective, Mark Gould; And how shall the Net be governed? a meditation on the relative virtues of decentralized, emergent law, David R. Johnson, David G. Post; Factors shaping Internet self-governance, A.M. Rutkowski. Part 2 Domain names: Internet domain names - whose domain is this? Robert Shaw; 'Domain-ia' - the growing tension between the domain name system and trademark law, Alexander Gigante; Trademark disputes in the assignment of domain names, carl Oppedahl; Network solutions and domain name disputes - a reply to Carl Oppedahl; registering the domain name system - an exercise in global decision-making, William A. Foster; Addressing and the future of communications competition - lessons from telephony and the Internet, Ashley Andeen, John Leslie King; In whose domain? name service in adolescence, Don Mitchell et al. Part 3 Financial incentives for route aggregation and efficient address utilization in the Internet, Yakov rekhter et al; Address administration in IPv6, Eric Hoffman, K. Claffy. Part 4 Interconnections and settlements: Scalable Internet interconnection agreements and integrated services, Joseph Bailey, Lee McKnight; Internet exchanges - policy-driven evolution, Bilal Chinoy, Timothy J. Salo; Interconnection, pricing, and settlements - some healthy jostling in the growth of the Internet, Richard A. Cawley; Settlement systems for the Internet, Maria Farnon, Scott Huddle; The Hong Kong Internet exchange - the economics, evolution, and connectivity of Asian Internet infrastructure, Milton Mueller et al. Part 5 Service quality: IP performance metrics, Guy T. Almes; Cooperation in Internet data acquisition and analysis, Tracie Monk, K. Claffy.

About the Author

Brian Kahin is Senior Fellow at the Computer & Communications Industry Association in Washington, DC. He is also Research Investigator and Adjunct Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and a special advisor to the Provost's Office. He is a coeditor of Transforming Enterprise (MIT Press, 2004) and many other books.