Comments on: What Governs The Internet As It Is? http://www.speakupproject.com/2007/05/08/what-governs-the-internet-as-it-is/ Get Educated. Get Involved. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:30:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Rob Domanski http://www.speakupproject.com/2007/05/08/what-governs-the-internet-as-it-is/#comment-26 Rob Domanski Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:32:25 +0000 http://www.speakupproject.com/2007/05/08/what-governs-the-internet-as-it-is/#comment-26 Well-written piece, but why the focus on social norms? Lessig's four things that regulate cyberspace are certainly playing a role in guiding how the internet is being governed, however, as is the case with much of the literature on the subject, it overlooks the human element of WHO is governing the internet. The academic literature exposes several theories on who are the primary actors in internet governance: 1) local and national governments, 2) code/programmers, 3) a international "regime", 4) self-regulated in the Web 2.0 sense, and 5) international consortium groups of engineers and academics, such as ICANN, W3C, and the IETF. More details at <a href="http://thenerfherder.blogspot.com/2007/08/who-governs-internet-literature-review.html" rel="nofollow">http://thenerfherder.blogspot.com/2007/08/who-governs-internet-literature-review.html</a> Well-written piece, but why the focus on social norms? Lessig’s four things that regulate cyberspace are certainly playing a role in guiding how the internet is being governed, however, as is the case with much of the literature on the subject, it overlooks the human element of WHO is governing the internet.

The academic literature exposes several theories on who are the primary actors in internet governance: 1) local and national governments, 2) code/programmers, 3) a international “regime”, 4) self-regulated in the Web 2.0 sense, and 5) international consortium groups of engineers and academics, such as ICANN, W3C, and the IETF. More details at http://thenerfherder.blogspot.com/2007/08/who-governs-internet-literature-review.html

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