Are we in a Digital Cold War?

Note: the paper posted here was initially presented at the GigaNet workshop The Global Governance of the Internet: Intergovernmentalism, Multistakeholderism and Networks, Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland, May 17, 2013. I first heard the Cyber Cold War concept applied to the Internet in the aftermath of the Dubai World Conference on International Telecommunications...

The NTIA’s New Policy of Appeasement

We've asserted before that the US government’s Internet governance policy has lost direction and become confused and self-contradictory. Yesterday the U.S. Commerce Department confirmed the diagnosis. In preparation for the upcoming ICANN meeting in Durban, South Africa, the NTIA released a bizarre statement about top level domain applications involving geographic...