[Air-l] ICANN Paper Online

[Hans Klein]

The following paper is available online:

"ICANN and Internet Governance: Leveraging Technical Coordination to Make 
Global Public Policy," The Information Society, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2002, 193-207.

Abstract
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was created 
in 1998 to perform technical coordination of the Internet.  ICANN also lays 
the foundations for governance, creating capabilities for promulgating and 
enforcing global regulations on Internet use.  ICANN leverages the 
capabilities in the Internet domain name system (DNS) to implement four 
mechanisms of governance: authority, law, sanctions, and 
jurisdictions.  These governance-related features are embodied in seemingly 
technical features of ICANN's institutional design. Recognition of ICANN's 
governance mechanisms allows us to better understand the Internet's 
emerging regulatory regime.
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