[Air-l] Do volunteers run the internet?

[Conor Schaefer]

I like e's point. I also find an intriguing dichotomy between the
content (online publishing, listservs, etc.) and the physical
infrastructure (backbones, access points, asynchronous connections
fostering oligarchical as opposed to anarchistic relationships, etc.).
The term "governance" has to encompass both internal strictures, like
the use of .xxx and so forth, as well as the external factors, like
resource management, such as servers and bandwidth.

Read Siva Vaidhyanathan's "The Anarchist in the Library" (2004) for more
on the delineation between oligarchy and anarchy, which I've lifted
directly from that source.

-Conor

elw at stderr.org wrote:
>   
>> Has anyone researched internet governance as voluntary?
>>
>> I have one undergrad paper on this. I think I am original on this but 
>> would appreciate any findings by others.
>>
>> also are there any statistics on this?
>>     
>
> you've got two different topics here, imho - one in the subject, one in 
> the body.
>
> are you talking about volunteers RUNNING the internet, or the premise that 
> internet networks submit voluntarily to governance by ICANN et al?
>
> both tracks of ideas have some support, but are quite different topics...
>
> --e
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