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2019

The Hidden Standards War: Economic Factors Affecting IPv6 Deployment

The data communications protocol supporting the Internet (IPv4) is almost 40 years old, and its 32-bit address space is too small for the global Internet. A new, “next generation” Internet Protocol (IPv6), has a much larger, 128 bit address space. But the new protocol is not backwards compatible with the...
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Sovereign RUnet: What Does it Mean?

This case study of RUnet is based on the theoretical framework of cyberspace alignment to national borders introduced by Mueller (2017). He argues that instead of technical fragmentation of the Internet, there are attempts to align the control of cyberspace with national borders. There are three main methods to implement...
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Will The Internet Fragment?

“In characteristically rigorous fashion, Mueller’s outstanding book punctures the alarmist myth of Internet fragmentation and helps us to understand what is really at stake as nations and other groups vie for power over the Internet.”

Jack Goldsmith, Harvard Law School

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