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The problem of future users: how constructing the DNS shaped internet governance

Steven Malcic, University of California Santa Barbara
PUBLISHED ON: 30 Sep 2016 DOI: 10.14763/2016.3.434

How did early network designers govern the internet before internet governance? With archival research, this article shows how designers conceived of the Domain Name System (DNS) as a solution to the problem of governing future network users.

NETmundial: only a landmark event if 'Digital Cold War' rhetoric abandoned

Francesca Musiani, MINES ParisTech
Julia Pohle, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
PUBLISHED ON: 27 Mar 2014 DOI: 10.14763/2014.1.251

The dominant narrative about the governance of the internet in media and with high-level policymakers is misleading. Researchers Francesca Musiani and Julia Pohle explain what stands in the way of genuine multistakeholder internet governance as all eyes are turning towards Brazil and its NETmundial meeting.