Unfortunately, many of the links here have deterioriated over time, but I believe the large majority are still good. I've been slowly doing a dissertation on this topic at the University of Miami's School of International Relations. I had to shove most of my academic work aside around June 2000, which partly explains why this page is a little short on recent history. Plus, I started in pre-ICANN days, which is why it seems so heavily oriented toward gTLD-Mou debates.  But it may be of help to some people, so here it is, such as it is.
 

In support of open ICANN board meetings.

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Introduction

Historical Background
     The DNS controversy erupted in 1995, pitting leaders of the Internet engineering community against Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI) of Herndon VA. At issue was the administrative reform of the Internet's domain name system... hence DNS.

     NSI's involvement stemmed from a 1993 contract with the US National Science Foundation (NSF) called the Cooperative Agreement.   According to the initial terms of the agreement, second level names (SLDs, like "flywheel" in flywheel.com) within .com, .net and .org were to be distributed free on demand, first-come, first-served.

    Throughout 1995 NSI had been subject to mounting criticism over several issues, especially with regard to slow service and a biased and vague dispute resolution policy. Criticism intensified after an amendment to the Cooperative Agreement on September 13, 1995. That amendment allowed NSI to begin charging fees for new domain name registrations ($100 for two years, $30 of which was redeemed to the NSF). This was a threshold event, catalyzing a surge of organized online discourse. Eminent Internet engineering veterans such as Jon Postel (1943-1998) and Scott Bradner were deeply active in efforts to end NSI's increasingly lucrative private monopoly on the Top Level Domains (TLDs) .com, .net, and .org. The online discussions were quickly joined by aspiring entrepreneurs, plus several attorneys and lobbyists who specialized in trademark issues. The controversy deepened as NSI's challengers began arguing among themselves about the best approach for reorganizing TLD administration.

     In late 1996 the engineering community initiated a formal process known as the International Ad Hoc Committee (IAHC). That group of ten people ultimately adopted a plan to create seven new TLDs -- .arts, .firm, .info, .nom., .rec .shop (initially .store), and .web -- and reconstitute .com, .net and .org as globally shared resources, all under non-profit administration. In the spring of 1997 the IAHC and other supporting parties ratified a document called the Generic Top Level Domains Memorandum of Understanding (gTLD-MoU), depositing it with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) as if it were a treaty instrument. The term MoUvement derives from that document.

     The MoUvement included: 1) trademark interests who wanted a "go slow" approach to the creation of new TLDs; 2) officials of the ITU and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) who were cultivating new, expressly global responsibilities for their organizations, and; 3) members of the Internet engineering community who favored reconstituting TLD administration as a "global public trust."  The gTLD-MoU would have eventually terminated NSI's monopoly by implementing a fundamental restructuring of TLD administration and domain name registration functions. Instead, the right to resell SLDs within the existing generic TLDs as well as within new ones recommended by the IAHC would have been distributed among a global network of registrars. All those registrars would have been required to use a Shared Registry System (SRS) overseen by a Geneva-based non-profit corporation known as the Council of Registrars (CORE).

     Employees and supporters of NSI lobbied energetically to resist the challenge to NSI's monopoly.  Most of the entrepreneurial entities which had participated in the early debates finally sided with NSI, declaring support for an open, competitive free-market approach which sanctioned private TLD ownership, and consequently their own exclusive control over new TLDs.

     Consequently, debates focused largely around the question of non-proprietary versus proprietary TLDs. Significant disputes also arose over the "openness" of the MoUvement's processes, its alleged hostility to US interests, and other alleged ulterior motives of its supporters. Personal antipathies gave the discourse an increasingly hostile tone, deeply polarizing the debate. Idiosyncrasies of the current system, such as the disposition of country code TLDs, like .us, .tv, and .de, were brought into question.

     Controversy swirled around Postel, a founder of the ARPANET (the Internet's precursor) who had been at the heart of the Internet's standards making process since the beginning. As director of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), and the author of many technical specifications essential to DNS operations, Postel had high stature within the engineering community, but was nevertheless unable to leverage his status to resolve the debates. Postel was also a founding member and trustee of the Internet Society (ISOC), a non-profit group constituted in 1992 to provide legal and other services to the engineering community. Postel became involved immediately after the controversy started in September 1995, and made various proposals for creating new TLDs in the first half of 1996, but these did not receive widespread support.

     By June 1996, after it had become clear that a stalemate had developed, Postel formally enlisted ISOC's assistance in the matter. In October ISOC's executive director, Don Heath, finally announced the formation of the IAHC as an eleven member "blue ribbon" panel.

     The IAHC's publication of the gTLD-MoU presented a direct challenge to NSI's dominance of existing commercial TLDs, and ruled out the possibility that any new TLDs could operate as private monopolies within the public Internet. This stance further polarized the community, elevating hostility to new levels.  Individuals who opposed the gTLD-MoU and Postel's endorsement of it complained that his power and ability to act were unfairly based on personal influence within an insular community of Internet engineers. Many of those critics demanded that the gTLD-MoU be declared null and void, and insisted that any new DNS reform process should be explicitly overseen by the United States government (USG) as guarantor of legal authority.

     Existing USG involvement took several forms. Like NSI, the IANA derived much of its standing through contracts with the USG. NSI was granted its monopoly in 1993 as an NSF subcontractor, while Postel's IANA had depended primarily on Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for operational funding since the mid1980s. The USG, as is well known, sponsored much of the initial development of the ARPANET and the Internet. Since the 1970s, most USG contributions had flowed from the NSF and DARPA agencies, but booming commercialization in the 1990s suggested a declining role for the USG and eventually the full privatization of the system.  Nevertheless, as the DNS controversy widened, prominent political entities within the USG were drawn into the fray. Beginning in 1997 several Congressional hearings were held to address the topic, while the Executive branch assembled an Interagency Working Group which included people from the Department of Commerce and the White House. This latter effort was coordinated by Ira Magaziner, who had played a leading role during the Administration's ill-fated campaign to reform the US health insurance industry.

     In January 1998, the Magaziner group made its own proposal to resolve the DNS controversy and intervened to block the imminent implementation of the MoUvement's plan. This proposal was called the Green Paper... since it wasn't ripe yet. That proposal endorsed proprietary TLDs, allowing for the creation of five new ones, while securing NSI's private control over .com, .net and .org. After soliciting public comment and receiving a considerable amount of international criticism, the Magaziner group changed course and in June 1998 produced a softer final proposal--the White Paper. It called for creating a new not-for-profit entity to oversee the delegation of names, numbers, and protocols for the Internet. That body would be empowered to settle the issue of proprietary TLDs. The White Paper effectively tied resolution of the DNS controversy to the migration of the IANA away from its dependence on USG funding. Initial discussions regarding the implementation of the White Paper took place through a loose and open structure called the International Forum on the White Paper (IFWP).

     The wide ranging IFWP discussions received much attention during the course of the summer of 1998, but a private compromise developed between NSI, the IANA, and a few other interested parties. This side bargain led to the formation of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Interim funding for ICANN was offered by corporate sponsors such as IBM and MCI through a public interest organization known as the Global Internet Project (GIP).

     The IFWP discussions leading up to the formation of ICANN injected a number of other vexing issues into the controversy, including basic problems of who makes up ICANN's membership, how to appoint officers to its board of directors, and what legal form can ensure the new corporation's accountability to its membership. Additional issues carried over from the MoUvement controversy concern establishing the rights (if any) of trademark holders, designating formal dispute resolution mechanisms, protecting free speech in domain name character strings, the role of national governments, and locating stable sources of funding for the new corporation. Vociferous opposition to ICANN came from small groups such as the Domain Name Rights Coalition (DNRC), Open Root Server Confederation (Open-RSC) and the Boston Working Group (BWG). Open-RSC is dominated by individuals who had been outspoken MoUvement critics. The BWG largely reflects the same veteran anti-MoUvement constituency as Open-RSC, but with a few notable exceptions such as Karl Auerbach, a founding BWG member who was also a CORE supporter.

     Postel died of post-operative complications from heart surgery on October 16, 1998, just one day after Congressman Tom Bliley (R-Virginia) announced the opening of an investigation into the administration's conduct in the creation of ICANN. Postel's attorney, Joe Sims (initially providing pro bono service from a law firm with significant interests in telecommunications), and Roger Cochetti (a lobbyist for IBM who is closely involved with GIP), finalized the selection of ICANN's interim personnel. Esther Dyson, a well-known computer industry pundit agreed to serve as Chair of ICANN's interim board of directors, and Mike Roberts, a veteran of ISOC, EDUCAUSE and other non-profit computer industry organizations, became interim CEO.

   ICANN received considerable staff and other support from the Berkman Center for the Internet and Society (BCIS) at Harvard University. BCIS involvement included developing procedures for selecting ICANN's "at large" board members, a process that is generally regarded as an early experiment in online global democracy.

     A compromise between NSI, ICANN, and the Department of Commerce was signed in November 1999. As result of that agreement, NSI provides several million dollars of funding support for ICANN in exchange for the right to maintain exclusivity over the registry function for four and perhaps eight years, depending upon certain provisions of the agreement being achieved by certain deadlines.

     In addition to the "at large" members, ICANN's board includes representatives from constituencies concerned with three sorts of Internet resources that had once been managed by Postel. These are: domain names, numeric Internet Protocol addresses (IP numbers), and engineering protocols.

     The struggle to create the Domain Name Support Organization (DNSO) drew many of the individuals and issues that were present during the height of the gTLD-MoU controversy. The DNSO has therefore become the arena for the most contentious constituency-seating and policy-making disputes.

     Discussions regarding the Address Support Organization (ASO) took place among the Regional Internet Registries in relatively quiet atmosphere, though it was widely understood that these are valuable and potentially scarce resources. An organization which can control the allocation of IP numbers would command significant global power, but the names controversy is more immediately relevant and easier to understand, and thus has received more attention.

     The third resource encompasses a variety of numbers and algorithms that are highly germane to ensuring compatibility among devices which provide connectivity on the Internet. the most publicized debates regarding the constitution of a Protocol Support Organization (PSO) took place within Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the venue where most Internet standards are written. IETF standards are then edited and published by IANA, with the copyright held by ISOC. The creation of the PSO and ICANN is thus directly relevant to the future character of the IETF. ETSI and the ITU also participated in the selection of ICANN's PSO board members.

     Prior to the Internet's commercial "boom," and prior to the onset of this controversy, all these questions might have been expeditiously resolved within the IETF, an unincorporated organization that could rightfully aspire to being recognized as the most important--and most open--technical standards body of the modern era. For years the IETF membership had trusted Postel to perform the IANA function--allocating or delegating the allocation of the various names, numbers and protocols which were essential to Internet management. Tasks performed by a single individual on behalf of a small group of engineers have thus become a topic immediately relevant to the global  economy. To make sense of the debate surrounding the creation of ICANN one must trace the threads reaching back through the gTLD-MoU, the IAHC, and ultimately the organizational dynamics of the IETF. The leaders of the Internet engineering community have been fully involved at every stage.
 

Analytical Approach
     I do not claim to be a neutral observer of this process. I have openly supported arguments in favor of public resource models and shared, non-proprietary TLDs. However, my primary concern as a student of international relations is to evaluate the extent to which the DNS reform process expedites the rise of an expressly global system of resource management.

     The DNS controversy is a remarkable example of social structuration. It is an instance in which the authors of technical standards are collectively aware that they are also engaged in social architecture of the grandest sort. No technology is culturally neutral, and the designers of the Internet are well aware of this, making no pretense it can be otherwise. The creation and application of Internet-related technologies is widely regarded to be as historically pivotal as the second industrial revolution in the late 19th century, and perhaps even as significant as the cultural changes enabled by Gutenberg's invention of the printing press in the middle of the 15th century.

     Given the pervasive notion that use of the Internet may lead to a significant transformation of global society, it is appropriate to ask what these architects are planning. To make a thing implies an intended mode of use. The physical world is typically constructed to reinforce identifiable social norms. In this case, the issue is whether marketization and the competitive drive for profit should permeate the Internet at every level, or whether some central management functions should be isolated from market pressures and formally operated by a collectively constituted political organization.

     In meta terms, the issue is whether accountability for the development of the Internet's name and number allocations should be driven by impersonal market forces, or by formal and public political processes.

     Participants in this controversy have demonstrated a high awareness that they know what they are doing: Design choices implemented within particular mechanisms of telecommunication will have enduring social impact. Those mechanisms embody rules for living that the designers prefer.

    The DNS controversy has split the Internet's architects into warring camps, providing insight into the common threads and contradictions which underlie their conceptions about what sort of society best promotes the public good. Nearly all participants in this debate have at one time or another expressed a strong normative commitment to "innovation," and many have stated that current political and legal structures may be insufficient to deal with the new sorts of jurisdictional problems raised by use of the Internet. They have also engaged in occasional discussions of how to build the Internet in ways that will introduce operational alternatives to the present structure of world order, especially with respect to private transactions in commodities and information.

     My dissertation will argue that the breadth and depth of such convictions among this technically elite group contains the makings of a credible challenge to the sovereign authority of nation states. That challenge has been clearly articulated in the context of the Internet's DNS controversy.

Some of my other writings on this subject.

Draft Paper: The Technical Construction of Globalism
My Response to the "Green Paper"
IFWP - Personal Impressions
My Submission Regarding ICANN
TLD Registration Trends
A Plan to End the DNS War

Contact: Craig Simon

LINKS

Highly recommended:
  Ellen Rony, Clicks or Mortar, Are Domain Names Property?
 

Organizations
  The MoUvement and Its Allies
  Anti-MoU Lobby
  Interested Organizations
  ICANN: (The New IANA)
Documents
  Drafts and RFC Sources
  Contracts, Official Statements, and Legislation
  Other Bibliographies
  Lists and Archives
  Meetings
Other Sites of Interest on DNS
  Resources
  Journalism-Articles
  Scholarship
Side Issues
  Digerati Agenda
  Journalism-Online Magazines
  Miscellaneous Links on Standards and Computerization
  Philosophy and Semiotics

Related Pages on this Site
  Legend of Acronyms

Organizations
 

The MoUvement and Its Allies

Generic Top Level Domains Memorandum of Understanding (gTLD-MoU)
  Council of Registrars (CORE)
  Internet Council of Registrars (CORENIC)
  Policy Oversight Committee (POC)
  Policy Advisory Body (PAB)
  Signers
International Ad Hoc Committee (IAHC)
Emergent Corporation
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
Internet Society (ISOC)
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center  (Chartered to administer CORE dispute resolutions)
International Telecommunications Union (ITU)
International Trademark Association (INTA)
Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI)
Internet Software Consortium (ISC) (also Apostols.org)
IANA Transition Advisory Group (ITAG)
European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)

Anti-MoU Lobby

Organizations
World Internet Association (WIA Tony Rutkowski)
Internet Law and Policy Forum  (ILPF Tony Rutkowski)
Association for Interactive Media (AIM Andy Sernovitz)
Washington Web: Internet Policy Forum (Andy Sernovitz)
Domain Name Rights Coalition (Mikki Barry, Milton Mueller)
Global Sense (Ken Freed)
Open Root Server Confederation (Open-RSC, Einar Stefferud, Richard Sexton)
Private Sector Working Group (John Wood)
Aspen Institute (David Johnson, David Post)
Association for Domain Owners Rights (Karl Peters)

Companies, Etc.
Network Solutions, Inc.  (NSI)
Iperdome (Jay Fenello)
IO Design (Christopher Ambler)
Grass Roots Servers (Phil Howard)
A-Z Registry (Stephen Page)
eDNS (Karl Denninger)
MCS Net (Karl Denninger)
FCN (Bob Alisat)
Alternic (Eugene Kashpureff)
SuperRoot Consortium (Simon Higgs, Roeland M.J. Meyer)
Top Level Domain Name Service (TLDNS, Robin Nixon)
The Internet Namespace Cooperative (TINC)
OpenNic
 

Interested Organizations

ICANNWatch (Post, Farber, Froomkin)
BLOG (Bret Fausett)
InternetStakeholders (Kendall Dawson)
   See his ICANN: The Movie
Global Incorporation Alliance (GIAW - merged with IFWP)
Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX)
International Forum for the White Paper (IFWP)
Center for Information Law and Policy  (CLIP)
European Internet Forum  (EIF -- Part of European Commision's Information Society Project Office)
Global Internet Project (GIP)
Federal Networking Council (FNC)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency  (DARPA)
Information Technology Association of America (ITAA)
Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT)
The Democratic Association of Domain Name Owners (DADNO)
Harvard Information Infrastructure Project (HIIP)
Interactive Services Association (ISA)
American Internet Registrants Association  (AIRA)
Internet Service Providers' Consortium (ISP/C)
Internet Industry Association (IIA) Australia
EU.org (not the European Union--3rd level domains)
Monolith Free Domain Project  (Aveek Datta -- 3rd level domains)
World Wide Alliance of TLD Registries (wwTLD c/o APNG)
World Wide Alliance of TLD Registries (wwTLD c/o CANARIE)
Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries (CENTR)
Virtual Institute of Information (Columbia University)
International Congress of Independent Internet Users (ICIIU -- Michael Sondow)
The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)
National Telecommunications and Infrastructure Administration (NTIA)
European Commission Panel of Participants (EC-PoP)
United States Network Information Center (USNIC)
Next Generation Internet (NGI -- Rutkowski)
United States Internet Council (USIC )
President's Information Technology Advisory Council (PITAC)
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
OECD Directorate of Science Technology and Industry (DSTI)
Consumer Project on Technology (CPTECH-- Jamie Love, Ralph Nader)
Berkman Center on Internet and Society (BCIS)
Asia-Pacific Top Level Domain Forum (APTLD)
Internet Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
Association of Internet Professionals (AIP)
World Information Technologies and Services Alliance (WITSA)
International Federation of Intellectual Patent Attorneys (FICPI)
The Regis Group (TRG)
Center for Global Communications, (GLOCOM, InternationalUniversity of Japan -- Adam Peake)
Alliance for Converging Technologies (ACTNET, Governance in the Digital Economy -- Don Tapscott)
Dominiuris  (Javier A. Maestre Rodríguez)
NetCoaltion.com (Amazon.com, America Online, DoubleClick, eBay, Excite@Home, Inktomi, Lycos, theglobe.com, Yahoo)
Markel Foundation
 
 

ICANN: The New IANA Corp.  and its Constitutents
 

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

Genesis
ICANN Drafts http://www.netsol.com/policy/icann/
Ellen Rony's Comparison http://www.domainhandbook.com/comp-bylaws.html

Interim (Initial) Board
At Large Members http://www.icann.org/board.html
see also http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ifwp/icannboard.html

Supporting Organizations (SOs)

Domain Name Support Organization (DNSO)
  (sometimes called Names Council, though Names Council specifically refers to a proposed body within the DNSO)

Constituency application submissions recognized by ICANN  http://www.icann.org/dnso/constituency_groups.html
 

MoUvement Descendants
Domain Name Supporting Organization DNSO
International Trademark Association INTA
DNSO.ASSOCIATION.ORG  AIP
Non-Commercial Domain Holders  c/o ISOC, Heath
Business Constituency http://www.eurointernet.org/dnso/buss1.htm Sola
  see also Alliance for Global Business http://www.giic.org/focus/ecommerce/agbecplan.html
Intellectual Property Constituency http://www.icann.org/dnso/wellington.html, Heltzer

See also
Indigenous IP Constituency IIPC Brunner
 IIPC comments at  http://wipo2.wipo.int/dns_attachments/rfc3/attach921129441.doc

Anti-MoUvement Descendants
Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders constituency NCDNH, Sondow
Personal Domain Name Holders Association  PDNHA, Fenello
Individual Domain Name Owners' Constituency IDNO, also IDNO
Trademark, intellectual property, anti-counterfeiting interests DNSO-IP, Fausett
see also Domain Name Services Organization dnso.net

See also
Non-Commercial Constituency: ACM Committee on Internet Governance (Mueller, Lessig, Bush)
  ACM-ICG comments at http://www.icann.org/comments-mail/comment-dnso/msg00022.html

  Compromise Non-commercial DN Holders Constituency http://www.ncdnhc.isoc.org/home.html

Address Support Organization (ASO)
  also called Regional Internet Registries (RIRs)
American Registry of Internet Numbers  ARIN
Asia Pacific Network Information Center  APNIC
Reseau IP Europeens Network Coordination Center  RIPE

Protocol Support Organization (PSO)
7/19/1999 PSO-MoU http://www.icann.org/pso/pso-mou.htm
Internet Architecture Board  IAB
Internet Engineering Task Force IETF
Process for Organization of Internet Standards POISSON
   Note: The IAB "speaks" for the IETF, and POISSON is the venue for IETF discussions of this matter.
The World Wide Web Consortium ETSI, and the International Telecommunications Union arealso members
 

Advisory Committees

Membership Advisory Committee (MAC -- Developing the General Assembly)
ICANN http://www.icann.org/list.html
Berkman Center http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rcs/index.html
MAC Membership Models http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/mac/bbtop.htm
ICANN Staff Analysis of Membership Models http://www.icann.org/santiago/membership-analysis.htm

Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC)
GAC Info http://www.icann.org/governmental-com.html
GAC Interim Webpage http://www.noie.gov.au/docs/gac1.htm

DNS Root Server System Advisory Committee
http://www.icann.org/dnsroot-com.html
Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) http://www.icann.org/committees/dns-root/crada.htm
 

Advisory Committee on Independent Review (IRAC)
http://www.icann.org/irac.html

Also

Trade Mark Issues and Arbitrators
WIPO Internet Domain Name Process http://wipo2.wipo.int/process/eng/processhome.html
Internet Arbitration Association http://www.endispute.co.uk/isr/israem.htm
Internet Dispute Resolution Organization (IDRO)  http://www.disputes.net/disputes.html
Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution http://aaron.sbs.umass.edu/center/Default.htm
  Ethan Katsh http://mantle.sbs.umass.edu/alee/legal/Katsh/katsh.htm
Diane Cabell Using ICANN's UDRP  http://eon.law.harvard.edu/udrp/syllabus.html
EGroups  http://www.egroups.com/subscribe/trademark-law-for-domain-name-holders
 

NoYouCannt
Texoma http://209.151.99.201/texomamall/boston.html
Semich http://www.nunames.nu/Press/pressreleases.cfm
Rony http://www.domainhandbook.com/icannt.html
Oppenheimer http://icbtollfree.com/headsup.html
Sexton http://www.dnso.com/
Garry Anderson  http://www.wipo.org.uk/
Hans Klein   http://www.CivilSocietyInternetForum.org http://www.cpsr.org/internetdemocracy/csif/
Derek A. Conant   Domain Name System General Assembly http://www.dnsga.org

Documents
 

Draft and RFC Sources

Host Names, DNS, Allocation, Privatization, and Internet History

Many of these links were broken by reorganization of the RFC editor sit, and I haven't been able to fix them all.
If you have problems, please use http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcsearch.html

Request for Comments (RFC) and Internet Engineering Notes (IEN)
1971 September RFC 226Karp
1971 September RFC 229 Postel http://www.roxen.com/rfc/rfc229.html
1971 September RFC 233 Bhushan & Metcalfe
1971 September RFC 236 Karp http://www.roxen.com/rfc/rfc236.html
1971 October RFC 247 Karp
1971 December RFC 289 Watson
1977 November RFC 739 Postel Assigned Numbers
1979 May IEN-89 Postel
1979 August IEN-116 Postel
1981 September RFC 799  Mills
1982 July RFC 814 Clark
1982 August RFC 819 The Domain Naming Convention for Internet User Applications. Su & Postel (*)
1983 October RFC 870 Assigned Numbers Reynolds, Postel
1983 November RFC 881 The Domain Names Plan and Schedule Postel
1983 November RFC 882 Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities Mockapetris
 1983 November RFC 883  Domain Names - Implementation and Specification Mockapetris
1984 February RFC 897 Domain Name System Implementation Schedule Postel
1984 October RFC 920 Domain Requirements Postel & Reynolds (*COM,EDU,ORG,MIL,GOV)
1984 October RFC 921 Domain Name System Implementation Schedule -Revised Postel
1985 October RFC 952  DNS Host Table Specification
953  Harrenstein, Stahl & Feinler
1985 December  RFC 968  Internet Startup Cerf
1986 January RFC 973 Domain Name System Changes and Observations Mockapetris
1986 January RFC 974 Partridge
1987 November RFC 1031 Lazear
1987 November RFC 1032 Stahl
1987 November RFC 1034   Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities (STD 13). Mockapetris
1987 November RFC 1035 Domain Names - Implementation and Specifications (STD 13). Mockapetris
 A 1591 predecessor??
1989 September RFC 1120  The Internet Activities Board. Cerf
1990 May RFC 1160 The Internet Activities Board. Cerf
1990 August RFC 1174 Identifier Assignment and Connected Status. Cerf
1990 August RFC 1178 Choosing a Name for your Computer. Libes
1990 November RFC 1192  Commercialization of the Internet. Kahin
1992 July  RFC 1340 Assigned Numbers Reynolds, Postel
1992 December RFC 1386 The US Domain Cooper, Postel
1993 June RFC 1480 The US Domain Postel
1993 October RFC 1540 Internet Official Protocol Standards. Postel
1994 March RFC 1591 Domain Name System Structure and Delegation. Postel
1994 June RFC 1640 The Process of Organization of Internet Standards. Crocker (w/Malamud)
1996 February  RFC 1918 Address Allocation for Private Internets. (anti-NAT) Rekhter, Moskowits, et al
1996 June  RFC 1958  Architectural Principles of the Internet.  Carpenter See also Transparency
  RFC 1766   Tags for the Identification of Languages Alvestrand
1996 February RFC 1918  Address Allocation for Private Internets  Rekhter, Moskowits, Karrenberg, de Groot, Lear
1996 August RFC 1996 A Mechanism for Prompt Notification of ZoneChanges (DNS NOTIFY). Vixie
1996 October RFC 2010 Operational Criteria for Root Name Servers Vixie & Manning
1997 March  RFC 2119 Key Words for us in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels Bradner
1997 April RFC 2136 Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System (DNS UPDATE). Vixie, Thomson, Rekhter, Bound
1997 July RFC 2181 - Clarifications to the DNS Specification. Elz, Bush
1998 October  RFC 2434 Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs. Narten, Alvestrand
1998 November Reserved TLDs Eastlake Panitz
1999 April (Draft)  Root Name Server Operational Requirements Bush, Kosters (became 2870)
1999 September 2690 2691 PSO-MoU w/ITU W3C, etc.
      (1310, 1602 for the Internet standards making practice)
2000 May RFC 2826 IAB Technical Comment on the Unique DNS Root. Carpenter (Source for ICP-3)
2000 September  RFC 2929 Domain Name System (DNS) IANA Considerations. Eastlake, Brunner-Williams, Manning
2001 February RFC 3071  Reflections on the DNS, RFC 1591, and Categories of Domains. Klensin

Internet Current Practices
1999 May ICP 1  IANA TLD Delegation Practices Document Elliott, Wentzel (?)

Early DNS Policy Drafts
1996 January, Postel-Bush-Bradner Draft ftp://rg.net/pub/dnsind/relevant/draft-ymbk-itld-admin-00.txt
1996 June Postel Draft  http://www.newdom.com/archive/draft-postel-iana-itld-admin-01.txt
1996 August Postel Draft  http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/draft-postel-iana-itld-admin-02.txt
  IANA "Draft Specifications for Administration and Management of gTLDs";
http://info.internet.isi.edu:80/in-drafts/files/draft-iahc-gtldspec-00.txt
Various Newdom Drafts: (Denninger, Higgs, Manning, Rutkowski, Postel) http://www.iiia.org/itld/

SRS
Shared Registry System Protocol (SRSP) ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-crispin-srs-00.txt
Domain Registry Protocol (DRP) http://www.core.nrw.net/ietf-srs/

New IANA Drafts and Comments
Proposals Received by USG http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/proposals/

1998, June CPSR http://www.cpsr.org/dns/dns_resolutions.html
1998, July EuroISPA  http://www.euroispa.org/papers/balanced.representation.html
1998, July-September IANA http://www.iana.org/news.html
1998 August 6, NSI http://198.41.3.10/policy/ifwp/
Berkman Center Comparison (IFWP) http://cyber.harvard.edu/ifwp/structure.html
1998 Sept 22 Boston Working Group  http://pax.cavebear.com/bwg/
1998 Sept EuroISPA http://www.euroispa.org/papers/icann.html
1998 Hauben http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/proposals/hauben/hauben.html
1998 Sept 30 Electronic Frontier Foundation http://eff.org/pub/GII_NII/DNS_control/HTML/19980930_eff_new_iana_bylaws.html
1998 Oct Semich & Caroll (.NU) http://www.nunames.nu/spending-controls/
1998 Oct Burr to Schorr http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/press/icann102098.htm
1998 Nov ICANN & USDOC: MoU2 http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/icann-memorandum.htm

Search ICANN and Berkman Sites http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/search/

Internet
Index of Internet Drafts: http://ietf.org/1id-abstracts.html
Requests For Comments (RFCs) http://info.internet.isi.edu/1/in-notes/rfc

SO and Member Organizations

DNSO Applications
1998 Sept 23 DNSO  http://www.dnso.org/docs/draft1.htm
1998 December 18  INTA DNSO Draft  http://www.dnso.org/docs/dnso-draft-inta-bylaws.html
Barcelona-Monterrey-Washington... BMW Draft (INTA, POC, PAB, CORE) http://www.dnso.org/docs/finalapp.htm
Paris Draft (NSI, AIP, ORSC)  http://dnso.association.org/bylaws.html
Ellen Rony's Comparison of DNS Drafts http://www.domainhandbook.com/comp-dnso.html
Singapore Compromise (CENTR) http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/singapore-0399/archive/DNSOdraft.html

PSO Drafts
Bylaws for a Protocol Support Organization (Bradner)  http://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-poisson-pso-bl-02.txt
Procedures for IETF appointments to the PSO (Bradner) http://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-poisson-appts-01.txt
  If those links expire, query ICANN at http://search.ietf.org/search/brokers/internet-drafts/query.html

WIPO  Process
WIPO RFC3 http://wipo2.wipo.int/process/eng/rfc_3.html
WIPO Final http://wipo2.wipo.int/process/eng/final_report.html
Froomkin Responses:
  RFC3 http://www.law.miami.edu/~amf/critique.htm
  Final http://www.law.miami.edu/~amf/commentary.htm
Opsahl/Samuelson Response http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~kopsahl/wipocomment.html

Contracts, Official Statements, and Legislation
 

Historic
Cooperative Agreement Jan 1 1993 http://www.networksolutions.com/legal/internic/cooperative-agreement/
Cooperative Agreement Amendment 4 Sep 13 1995 http://www.networksolutions.com/legal/internic/cooperative-agreement/amendment4.html
gTLD-MoU February 28 1997 http://www.gtld-mou.org/gTLD-MoU.html
Green Paper: Notice of Proposed Rule Jan 30 1998 (published in Federal Register February 20 1998)  http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/022098fedreg.htm
White Paper Statement of Policy Jun 5 1998 http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/6_5_98dns.htm
Cooperative Agreement Amendment 11 Oct 7 1998 http://www.networksolutions.com/legal/internic/cooperative-agreement/amendment11.html
NTIA/ICANN MoU Nov 25 1998 http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/icann-memorandum.htm
NIST/ IANA Transfer Dec 24 1999 http://www.nist.gov/admin/od/contract/9c1020.htm
NIST/ ICANN Amendment Feb 9, 1999  http://www.nist.gov/admin/od/contract/9c102001.htm
Petition that ICANN delay WIPO recommendations May 1999  http://www.domainhandbook.com/petition-0599.html
Cooperative Research and Development Agreement May 27, 1999 (CRADA) http://www.icann.org/crada.htm
Internet Architecture Board "Technical Comment on the Unique DNS Root" http://www.icann.org/correspondence/iab-tech-comment-27sept99.htm
Agreements between the DOC, NSI and ICANN September 28, 1999 http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/agreements/
Collaboration between ISOC/IETF and ITU-T ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-itu-isoc-00.txt expired link
IFWP "Consensus" points http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ifwp/consensuslist.asp
 

Governmental/Intergovernmental
1996 November 20 European Commission "Toward a European Numbering Environment" http://www.ispo.cec.be/infosoc/telecompolicy/en/d7.htm
1997 NSF OIG Report on the Administration of Internet Addresses:
   1) http://www.bna.com/e-law/docs/nsfnsi.html
   2) http://www.columbia.edu/~jrh29/geneva/NSF.inspector.general.txt
National Telecommunications and Infrastructure Administration (NTIA) http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/domainhome.htm
U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Hearing on the Internet Domain Name Trademark Protection http://www.house.gov/judiciary/41123.htm
Walter DeBacker, Honorary Director-General of the European Commission http://ds1.internic.net/ietf/97aug/debacker-39ietf.txt
1998 Feb 11 OECD Internet Domain Name Allocation Policies http://www.oecd.org/dsti/sti/it/cm/prod/e_97-207.htm
Internet Policy Report to the European Council http://www.ispo.cec.be/eif/policy/governance.html
ETSI Intellectual Property Rights Policy http://www.etsi.org/directives/ropanx6.htm
1999 Oct 27 SBA Officeof Advocacy Request for a Procedural Policy http://www.sba.gov/advo/laws/comments/icann99_1027.html

Private
NSI's Response to IAHC Plan  http://www.netsol.com/papers/internet.html
PAB Submission to Pickering Committee http://www.gtld-mou.org/docs/hearing.htm
1999 Feb 26 NSI Comments on ICANN Registrar Accreditation http://www.netsol.com/policy/icann299

Litigation And Legal Commentary
Cases http://www.cyberlaw.se/gcln/domain.htm

ioDesign's Complaint http://www.iodesign.com/complaint.html
ioDesign Judge's Statement (expired link)

pgMedia’s May 1998 complaint against NSI and NSF  http://Name.Space-Slams.Com/
George Strawn's submission:
More pgMedia responses http://www.technologylaw.com/pgmedia-reply.html
Declaration of Henry R. Perritt, Jr. http://name.space.xs2.net/law/Perritt-Declaration.html

The National Science Foundation (NSF), the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS), and The Privacy Act of 1974 (Karl Auerbach) http://pax.cavebear.com/nsf-dns/
 

Other Bibliographies, Compendiums and Overviews
 

The HinterNIC http://www.HinterNIC.net/
Rony & Rony http://www.domainhandbook.com/

Master of Your Domain http://www.softdisk.com/comp/dan/politics/cyber/domain.html
NSI Flawed Domain Name Policy information page (Carl Oppedahl) http://www.patents.com/nsi.sht
Bibliography of Internet Self Regulation  http://www.ilpf.org/selfreg/bib4_18.htm

Annotated Bibliography http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/docs/
Bibliography including RFCs by Richard Wiggins. http://www.netfact.com/iahc/
Bibliography (mostly press and journal reports through Spring 1996) by Eric Schlacter  http://www.patents.com/schlacte.sht (dead link?)
Bibliographic links to online press reports: http://www.clark.net/pub/rbenn/naming.html
AOL E-Commerce Project  http://legal.web.aol.com/ecommerc/current/int/americas.html
Eugene Kashpureff's press and list links http://www.alternic.net/press/
Thorough looking links from the high newdom period with a chronology of drafts, but many links are broken http://cream-100.nc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/htdocs/documents.html
1996 John S. Quarterman article on the "TLD Fiasco" http://www3.mids.org/mn/608/tld.html
Futures: Bibliography of Distributed Keyword Naming System:  http://csvax.cs.caltech.edu/~kiniry/projects/naming/paper/paper/node16.html
Chronology of Domain Name Disputes: http://www.domains.org/disputes_chronology.html
A history of developments in the assigning of domain names, compiled by Keith Dawson for "Tasty Bits from the Technology Front": http://tbtf.com/resource/domain-name-hist.html
EFF "Internet Address and Domain Name Disputes" Archive http://www.eff.org/pub/Intellectual_property/Internet_address_disputes/index.html
General governance and DNS links http://www.cais.net/cannon/dns/dns.htm
Older page, some broken links, but evidently thorough in its day: http://www.memra.com/ndbg.html
 

Lists and Archives

DNS
MSGroup (1975-1986) http://www.tcm.org/msggroup/
Domain-Policy  ftp://rs.internic.net/archives/domain-policy/
Newdom IIIA.ORG Archive Hosted by Matthew Marnell (Sept. 1995- Oct. 96)  http://www.iiia.org/lists/newdom/
  Compressed Archives of IIIA Newdom (plus other links): http://www.iahc.org/mail-lists.html
Newdom AR.COM Archive Hosted by Rick Wesson (closed November 1997)http://www.ar.com/lists/
    The "lost" NEWDOM AR.COM portion is available through Richard Sexton http://www.newdom.com/archive/
Newdom NEWDOM.COM Hosted by Richard Sexton (Nov 1996 -  May 1997) http://www.newdom.com/archive/newdom3/
CORE-DB http://www.imc.org/ietf-coredb/mail-archive/
IAHC archives http://www.iahc.org/contrib/dns-cont.html
  (As of mid-1998 the authoritative IAHC archives were merged with the gTLD-MoU's archive)
gTLD-MoU  http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/
Core Votes http://core.beach.net/votes/
PAB  http://songbird.com/pab/mail/  see also http://www.pab.gtld-mou.org/
IFWP http://lists.ifwp.org/archive/
  Original IFWP archives from http://lists.interactivehq.org/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=ifwp are unavailable
OPEN-RSC archives are not published
DNS Forum (PgMedia) http://dnsforum.tao.ca/
DNSO archives http://www.dnso.org/discuss/mail-archive/
ISOC's NCDNH archives
     (April 1999 - June 1999) http://www.ncdnhc.isoc.org/discuss/archives/ncdnso.txt
     (since July 1999) http://lyris.isoc.org/cgi-bin/ncdnhc/lyris.pl?visit=ncdnhc-discuss
IDNO.ORG http://list.idno.org/archives/
ITAG archives are not published
IFWP Steering Committee Teleconference Minutes  (June 1998- September 1998)
   ISP/C http://www.ispc.org/activities/ifwp-index.shtml
   IFWP http://www.ifwp.org/minute.html
   Rony http://www.domainhandbook.com/scmin.html
IFWP Steering Committee e-mail archives are not published
BWG-N-FRIENDS archives are not published
ICANN MAC http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/mac/bbtop.htm
ICANN Feedback (includes comments@iana.org) http://www.icann.org/feedback.html
DNSOP (An IETF Working Group)  http://www.cafax.se/dnsop/
DNSO WG-C Proposal Comments  http://www.dnso.org/dnso/dnsocomments/comments-gtlds/Archives/
Slashdot Discussion on Cybersquatting http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/02/08/0825226&mode=thread
 

IP Registries
ARIN and NAIPR Archives  http://arin.net/mailinglist.html
APNIC http://www.apnic.net/general.html#mailing-lists
RIPE DNS Mailing List (low activity)  http://www.ripe.net/wg/dns/index.html
RIPE TLD Mailing List http://www.RIPE.NET/mail-archives/tld-wg/index.html
 

Internet
IETF (intended for operational issues, but policy comes up) ftp://ietf.org/ietf-mail-archive/ietf/
Internet Monthly Reports ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/imr/
IAB Meeting Minutes http://info.internet.isi.edu/1/IAB
POISSON Process for Organization of Internet Standards ftp://ftp.tis.com/pub/lists/poised/
 

New IANA/ICANN
IANA Comments http://www.iana.org/comments.html
IFWP Minutes hosted by ISP/C http://www.ispc.org/activities/ifwp-index.shtml
Post-Geneva IFWP Consensus Summary  http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ifwp/post-geneva-consensus.html
1998 August 9, DoaminZ analysis (New Zealand)  http://www.domainz.net.nz/newsstand/governance.html
ICANN Soundbytes http://www.pccf.net/references/icann/icann-sound-bytes.html
 
 

See also
University of Michigan Discussion List Archives. Contributions from Cook, Rutkowski, Farber, and Crocker. See threads such as "Who's Responsible for the Latest DNS Mess?" and  "the .web lawsuit against IAHC - let the record speak."  http://www.spp.umich.edu/courses/744/misc.hyper/index.html
Com-priv (DNS discussed, but is not the primary topic)
  http://www.mit.edu:8008/MENELAUS.MIT.EDU/com-priv/
  Also try Dejanews
Dave Farber's Interesting People Archive http://www.interesting-people.org
GIG-Talk  (Adam Todd)  http://www.ah.net/lists/lwgate/GIG-TALK
The Jeff Williams Problem http://www.dso.net/wwalsh/jeffw/
Cybertelecom (some DNS)  http://www.lawlists.net/pipermail/cybertelecom-l-announce/
 

Meetings, Announcements & Hearings

Also see
  http://www.gtld-mou.org/docs/meetings.html
  http://www.wallonie-isoc.org/Isoc_Wallonie_Infos.htm

1995 Winter DC (Workshop attended by Kahin et al)
1995 November 20 Harvard Internet Names, Numbers and Beyond  http://ksgwww.harvard.edu/iip/nsfforum.html
1996 February 2  Internet Administrative Infrastructure (CIX) http://www.aldea.com:80/cix/agenda.html
1996 Dublin, ITU, ISOC, CIX confrontation
1996 June, Montreal: ISOC Board Meeting , APPLe summit http://www.glocom.ac.jp/resa/APPLe/APPLeTOC.html
1996 July 31,  IANA/IOD
1996 September 8-10, Cambridge: Harvard Conference on Coordinating the Internet http://ksgwww.harvard.edu/iip/cai/cisupp.html
1996 October, Washington: FNCAC  http://www.fnc.gov/FNCAC_10_96_minutes.html
1996 October, Washington: Advisory Committee to the US Dept of State "Management and Maintenance of Internet Identifiers"
1996 October 22 Reston, ISOC announces IAHC formation
1996 December 13 San Jose IETF NEWDOM BOF http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/02765.html
1996 December 19 IAHC Announcement Regarding SRS

1997 Febraury 6 IAHC Announces 7 New TLDs
1997 April 14-15, Arlington: FNCAC http://www.fnc.gov/FNCAC_97_04_minutes.html
1997 April, Memphis: IETF IAB Plenary
1997 May, Atlanta: eDNS
1997 May, Geneva: Signing of the gTLD-MoU
1997 July Washington: Open Internet Conference
1997 July 31, Washington: Forum on Internet Domain Names http://www.itaa.org/dnsconf.htm
1997 New York
1997 August, Munich: IETF
1997 September 25 & 30, Washington: House Basic Research Subcommittee Hearings   http://democracy.net/events/09301997/
1997 September 1-2, Geneva. WIPO Consultative Meetings on Trademarks and Domain Names (#2)
1997 Brussels
1997 October 7-8 Washington CILP "Internet Domain Names: A Step Toward Global Internet Governance?"  http://www.cilp.org/~rclarke/conference_framing.htm
1997 November Toky CORE Dog and Pony http://www.soi.wide.ad.jp/library/gtld_97nov7/index-e.html
1997 November? Washington DC, Judiciary Committee Trademark Hearings
1997 December, Wash DC: IETF POC/CORE presentations to USG

1998 January, New York: DNS "entrepreneuers" meet with Magaziner
1998 Februrary, Aspen Institute Internet Policy Project (IPP) http://www.aspeninstitute.org/Dir/Polpro/CSP/IPF/projdesc.html
1998 March 30, Washington: House Basic Research Subcommittee Hearings http://www.house.gov/science/hearing.htm
1998 April 3, Los Angeles: POC/CORE
1998 June 8, Washington: House Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection Subcommittee  Part 1  Part 2
1998 June 10(?) New York, Cooper Union Debate between Dyson, Magaziner and Lessig
1998 July 26-28, Aspen Institute Internet Policy Project
1998 July 1-2, Reston: IFWP/GIAW  http://www.americas.ifwp.org/proceedings.htm and http://domainhandbook.com/giaw.html
1998 July 7, Brussels: http://www.ispo.cec.be/eif/dns/wpmeet.html and  http://www.ispo.cec.be/eif/dns/conclusions.html
1998 July 21, Washington FTC Commissioners' Testimony before Congress
1998 July 24-25, Geneva IFWP/INET http://www.geneva.ifwp.org/reports.html
         Mbone transcripts http://sunmed2.cern.ch/cgi-bin/nph-ftp-ifwp
         RealVideo transcripts http://www.geneva.ifwp.org/agenda.html
1998 July 29, Washington, Statement of William J. Daley to Congress
1998 August 11-13, Singapore: IFWP/APNIC http://www.apia.org/Cover.htm
        RealAudio transcripts  (c/o Adam Todd )
1998 August 20-21, Buenos Aires: IFWP http://209.36.112.23/advscripts/cabase/page.asp?CABASE/ifwp-en
         RealAudio transcripts http://www.medialive.com.ar/especial/ifwp2.html
1998 August 26 IAB Chicago: IETF-IAB Plenary
1998 September 12-16, Boston: IFWP "Editorial Session" and Wrap Up (cancelled)
1998 September 21, Edinburgh: CENTR Workshop
1998 September 19-21 Boston Working Group http://pax.cavebear.com/bwg/
1998 October 7, Washington: House Basic Research Subcommittee Hearings
         Submitted written testimony  http://www.house.gov/science/hearing.htm
         Verbal Q&A http://www.wia.org/pub/hsc-oct98-testimony.htm
         Supplemental submission by Joe Sims http://www.wia.org/pub/sims-supp.htm
1998 October 7-8, Ottawa OECD E-Commerce Conference http://www.cptech.org/ecom/ottawa.html
1998 October 10, Boston CPSR Einar Stefferud Keynote
1998 October 16-18, Barcelona: DNSO first meeting.
1998 October 19-20 Toronto: INTA Trademarks in Cyberspace
1998 October 24 New York: ICANN first face to face meeting
1998 October 28 Atlanta "Democracy Unleashed" Panel at Internet Service Providers Forum
1998 Novemeber 13 Cambridge Aspen Inst IPP DNS WG  http://www.aspeninstitute.org/Dir/Polpro/CSP/IPF/ICANN.html
1998 November 14 Boston ICANN first open meeting http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/archive/
1998 November 15-17 Monterrey DNSO second meeting
1998 November 25 Brussels ICANN meets with EC-PoP
1998 December 7-11 Orlando 43rd IETF

1999 January 17 teleconf ICANN BOD http://www.icann.org/minutes/minutes-17jan99.html
1999 January 19 Toronto WIPO Consultation http://wipo2.wipo.int/process/eng/to2-transcript-toc.html
1999 January 21-22 Washington  3rd DNSO meeting (sponsored by WITSA)
  (Further DNSO drafting occurred sometime later in Atlanta)
1999 January 22 Singapore WIPO Consultation http://wipo2.wipo.int/process/eng/sg2-transcript-toc.html
1999 January 23 Boston BCIS Representation in Cyberspace Study http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rcs/meeting.html
1999 January 28 NSI TAG
1999 January 22 Rio de Janeiro WIPO Consultation
1999 February 2-3 Paris, TLD Summit
1999 February 10 Dakar WIPO Consultation
1999 February 17 Brussels WIPO Consultation http://wipo2.wipo.int/process/eng/br2-transcript-toc.html
1999 March 2-4 Singapore ICANN meets with its MAC, GAC starts up
1999 March 5 Singapore ICANN meets with APRICOT/APPLe
1999 March 9 Washington NTIA Open Meeting on ccTLD Administration
1999 March 10 Washington WIPO Consultation http://wipo2.wipo.int/process/eng/dc2-transcript-toc.html
1999 March 13-17 Minneapolis 44th IETF
1999 March 18 Toronto DNSO IP Constituency (INTA)
1999 March 18 Bay Area "Chopped Liver" (Dyson-Rony)
1999 April 12-13 Wellington DNSO IP Constituency (INTA)
1999 April 21 ICANN SRS Testbed Announcement http://www.icann.org/srsannounce.html
    Webcast http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/press/
1999 May 4-5 New York DNSO IP Constituency (INTA) http://www.icann.org/dnso/intellpropapp.rtf
1999 May 6 Washington CATO Institute Policy Forum (Mueller) http://www.pccf.net/references/icann/cato-cpf-05-06-99.html
1999 May 11 Las Vegas Interop Internet Governance BOF (Auerbach)
1999 May 25-27 Berlin ICANN MAC (includes GAC and ccTLD constituency formation, BISCOTTI protest)
     Names Council Minutes http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/19990527.NCberlin.html
     Board Minutes http://www.icann.org/minutes/berlinminutes.html
     Root Server System Advisory Committee http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/berlin/archive/jun-murai-pres/
1999 June 10 Names Council Teleconference
1999 June 20-21 Palo Alto (Stanford) Reinventing Commerce at Net Speed
1999 June 22 Washington Abraham Bill Introduced http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/cyber/capital/22capital.html
1999 June San Jose ISOC's INET99 Pleneary with Dyson, Burr & and Gurry
1999 June 25 San Jose ICANN Names Council http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/dnso/
1999 June 30? Washington, Roberts and Sims with "industry reps" http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,38847,00.html?st.ne.fd.gif.l
1999 July 5 Brussels EC-POP Internet Governance http://www.ispo.cec.be/eif/dns/internetgovernance/
1999 July 7 Washington Dyson-Love-Nader-Froomkin
1999 July 9 New York Intellectual Property Constituency
1999 July 12 ICANN Teleconf
1999 July 14 Oslo, IETF meeting includes signing of PSO MoU w/ITU-T, ETSI & W3C
1999 July 22 Washington Commerce Committee Hearings "Is ICANN Out of Control?"
1999 July 27 ICANN Teleconf
1999 July 28 Washington House Judiciary Committee Hearing on domain names and trademarks
1999 August 12 ICANN Teleconf
1999 August 24-26 Santiago ICANN http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/santiago/archive/
1999 Brussels EC-GIP Next Generation Internet Conference Workshop (userid: conf   password: 99*go)  http://rpcp.mit.edu/itcnet/Agenda_0830.htm
1999 August 31 Cambridge Internet Pioneers Panel (Hauben notes)
1999 September 13-15 Ann Arbor Internet2 Technical Summit http://www.utexas.edu/coc/i2sociotech/
1999 September 24-24 Alexandria CPSR Governing the Commons: The Future of Global Internet Administration. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/events/
1999 September 26 Alexandria TPRC Panel: Institutional Design For Internet Governance http://www.si.umich.edu/~prie/tprc/AGENDA99.HTML
1999 October EPIC ??
1999 November 2-4 Los Angeles ICANN Annual Board Meeting
2000 February 9 Cambridge Common Cause Seminar on ICANN At Large Electionhttp://commoncause.org/icann/
2000 March 1 Washington Small Business Administration "Impact of Changes to the Domain Name System"
2000 March 8-10 Cairo ICANN Board Meeting
2000 March 30 Brussels CENTR Meeting on .EU
2000 April 6-7 Paris TIES Workshop on the Internet and Civil Society http://www.tiesweb.org/divers/workshop/pannels.html
2000 April 10 Washington SBA Advocacy Roundtable on Famous Trademarks and Internet Domain Names
2000 April 13 Washington CPT E-Commerce Roundtable
2000 July 17-18 Yokohama ICANN Board Meeting (in conjunction w/INET 2000)
2000 October 19 Phone Conf. DNSO Names Council http://www.lextext.com/nc1019.html
2000 November 13-16 Marina Del Rey ICANN Annual Board Meeting
2001 February 7 Washington House Commerce Committee
    Hearings
    Statements
2001 February 14 Washington Senate Commerce Subcommittee
    Hearings http://www.lextext.com/senate02142001.html
    Statements http://www.senate.gov/~commerce/hearings/hearings.htm
 

Other Sites of Interest on DNS and Internet Architecture

Resources

TLDs, SLDs, and Hosts

Some Internic Zones  ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/
NSI's Glossary of Terms http://rs.internic.net/glossary/index.html#s
Robert Shaw on DNS History http://people.itu.int/~shaw/presentations/3166ma.ppt
Karl Auerbach on DNS Operation http://www.cavebear.com/nsf-dns/background.htm
Gary Kessler's "Setting Up Your Own DNS" http://www.hill.com/library/dns.html
Russ Haynal's "Welcome to Information Navigators"  http://navigators.com/
Internet Software Consortium (BIND Developers)  http://www.isc.org/
Alternative to BIND http://www.dents.org/
More dns links c/o Easyspace http://m3.easyspace.com/n10cw/s41354/dns.html
DNS HOWTO http://www.math.uio.no/~janl/DNS/DNS-HOWTO

Domain Name Registries Around the World http://www.uninett.no/navn/domreg.html
ITU's ISO 3166-Based TLD Survey http://www.itu.int/net/cctlds/ (expired link superseded  by IANA's below)
Root-Zone Whois Information http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm
CERT's list of ccTLD's http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/whois_by_domain.html
ccTLD Contact Information http://www.apng.org/apcctld/cctld/contact.html
ccTLD Dispute Resolution Policies http://www.digidem.com/legal/domain.html
ccTLD Creation Order  http://cctld.nic.fr/aboutcctld/history/wwtld1999/ccTLDs-by-date.html
Delegated .US Subdomains http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/us-domain-delegated.txt

Legacy and Alternate TLDs http://tld.lists.kz/
  Planet Communications (Baptista) Top Level Domain Finder http://www.pccf.net/cgi-bin/root-servers/whereis-tld?web
  Global Top Level Domain Database http://www.earth-net.net/GTLD/database.html
  Domainwatch http://www.domainwatch.com/
  Open Root Server Network http://www.eu.orsn.net/
  SuperRoot
  Name.Space
  Open-RSC
  Pacific Root Open Source Shared Registry System http://www.POSSR.com/
  TLDNS http://www.tldns.com/
  3Gnic http://www.3gnic.com/
  The Internet Namespace Cooperative (TINC) http://www.tinc-org.com/
  eTLD http://www.e2p.com/etld.html
  DNSROOT http://cr.yp.to/dnsroot.html
  IRON Independent Root Operator's Network  http://root-dns.org/
    IRON's Alternate Zone Viewers
    http://root-dns.org/VueDat.Zone/
    http://root-dns.org/VueDig/VueDig_tld.php
  New Top Domain http://www.new-top-domain.com/index.htm
 XTNS http://www.xtns.net/
InterNIC's Whois http://rs.internic.net/cgi-bin/whois
.Gov Whois http://whois.nic.gov/
WWWhois and other Whois http://network-tools.com/3/
Trademark and Directory Resources http://www.marksonline.com/
UXN Spam Combat Page  http://combat.uxn.com/
 
 

InterNIC Performance Measures http://rs.internic.net/nic-support/nicnews/stats.html
Global Domain Registration Statistics http://www.domainstats.com
DomainGames http://www.domaingames.com/
Commercial Registration http://www.alldomains.com/
Domain registration Resources Page http://www.registry.org/
Rick Wesson's TLD Registrar Comparison http://www.ar.com/servey/compare.html
Domain Health Survey http://www.menandmice.com/dnsplace/healthsurvey.html
BPG Geopolitical Analysis  http://www.caida.org/analysis/geopolitical/bgp2country/

Registrar Studies

DomeBase (Bob Connor) http://www.domebase.com/

Stakes, Claims, and Allocations

The IANA's File of iTLD Requests http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/00990.html

Internet Protocol Address Space http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/ipv4-address-space
IPv4 Address Space Utilization http://ipv4space.TopLayer.Com/
PRIARA Pricing of Internet Addresses and Routing Archives  http://www.apnic.net/wilma-bin/wilma/piara

ISO 3166 Country Codes http://www.indigo.ie/egt/standards/iso3166-en.html
ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/
ISO 639 Language Codes http://www.indigo.ie/egt/standards/iso639/iso639-2-en.html
UN Statistics on Geographic Composition http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/methods/m49regin.htm
 

Contended Spaces
Haiti (.ht)  http://funredes.org/funredes/ht-tld.htm
Kenya http://user.raha.com/bob/randy.htm
Turkmenistan
Ambler vs. the Internet  (.web) http://www.brandenburg.com/misc/iodesign-judge.htmlS

ICANN era TLD Proposals
UPC Link  http://www.upclink.com/
 Collapse of RealNames http://scriptingnews.userland.com/realNamesMicrosoft

Internet Architecture
FYI: Answers to Commonly asked New Internet User Questions  ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-uswg-fyi4-00.txt
Understanding IP Addressing: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know http://www.3com.com/nsc/501302.html
Assigned Numbers (circa 1990) http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/rfc/rfc1060.html
"How the Internet Came to Be" http://ifla.inist.fr/ifla/documents/internet/history2.txt
Robert X. Cringely on Nerds 2.01  http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/
Edmondsom-Yurkanon Course Syllabus: Network Protocols and Implementation http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/dragon/cs378/f98/index.html
Internet Historical Society http://internet-pioneers.org/
JacobPalme's Internet Standards Quiz  http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme/internet-course/internet-standards-exams.html
Paul Baran on Distributed Commincations http://www.rand.org/publications/RM/baran.list.html
Sam Paltridge (OECD) Internet Infrastructure Indicators http://www.oecd.org//dsti/sti/it/cm/prod/tisp98-7e.htm
Network Startup Resource Center http://www.nsrc.org/
OSI's Seven Layer Model http://www.europa.com/~dogman/osi/
Daryl Banttari's TCP/IP Primer http://www.ipprimer.com/
Representation of IP Routing Policies http://www.ripe.net/docs/ripe-181.html
Internet Engineering and Planning Group http://www.iepg.org/
Internet Operators Group http://www.iops.org/
Huitema, Evaluating the Size of the Internet ftp://ftp.telcordia.com/pub/huitema/stats/index.html
Manning in-addr summary data http://www.isi.edu/~bmanning/in-addr-audit.html
Neotrace (Traceroute tool) http://www.neoworx.com/neotrace/
Kahn and Cerf What Is The Internet (And What Makes It Work) http://www.internetpolicyinst.org/briefing/12_99_story.html
Chinoy and Salo "Internet Exchanges: Policy-Driven Evolution" http://www.caida.org/outreach/resources/papers/bc_papers/ie.html
  http://www.e-llumine.net/online/internet-tcp.htm

Blumenthal and Clark End to End vs. Brave New World http://www.ana.lcs.mit.edu/anaweb/PDF/Rethinking_2001.pdf

IETF Standards Making
Wentzel, Klensin, Bush & Huter Internet Adminstration Guide http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-wenzel-nsrc-00.txt
RFC Editor http://www.rfc-editor.org/
Paul Hoffman, A Novice's Guide to the IETF http://www.imc.org/novice-ietf.html
Dave Crocker, Making Standards the IETF Way http://www.brandenburg.com/ietf/ietf-stds.html
Klensin Secret Handshakes: How to get RFCs published in the IETF http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-bradner-handshake-02.txt
Baker, et al, Considerations for Internet Drafts http://www.ietf.org/ID-nits.html
Rutkowski, Assigning Names and Numbers http://www.computer.org/internet/v3n1/w1news-dns.htm
Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim,
   Read the Friendly RFCs http://www.vlsm.org/gnm/in-rfc.html
   gnIETF is not IETF http://gnIETF.vlsm.org/
Bob Braden  Internet "Philosophers"   http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/98mar/slides/plenary-braden/index.html
Internet History Archives  http://www.postel.org/pipermail/internet-history/

Analogs
North American Numbering Plan (NANP) http://www.nanpa.com/ and http://www.fcc.gov/ccb/Nanc/
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) http://www.iczn.org/
ITU Table of Allocation of International Call Sign Series  http://www.itu.int/radioclub/rr/aps42.htm
Amy Friedlander, CNRI Infrastructure History Series http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/series.html

Journalism--Articles

IEEE Internet Roundtable
    1999 (IEEE Spectrum October Issue, Membership required for online viewing)
    1998 http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/select/1098/int.html
    1997 http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/select/1097/roun.html

Ellen Rony's "DNS in the News" http://www.domainhandbook.com/media.html
William X. Walsh's "DNS Policy Forum" http://www.dnspolicy.com/

Professional Press
Ken Cukier
Nick Patience
Andy Oram
Jeri Clausing
Gordon Cook  http://cookreport.com/
Declan McCullagh
Ted Byfield

Editorials
Bob Frankston http://www.frankston.com/Public/writings.asp
Karl Auerbach
Lessig et al on "End to End" http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/works/lessig/MB.html

Letter to the Editor http://www.sun.com/sunworldonline/swol-09-1996/swol-09-letters.html
News Article: Raiders of the Last Ark  http://www.NewHavenAdvocate.com/articles/raiders.html
Wired Magazine's description of the DNS  http://www.wired.com/wired/4.09/geek.page.html
QuickLinks  http://www.qlinks.net/quicklinks/dns.htm & http://www.qlinks.net/quicklinks/domnames.htm
Domainz Global News http://www.domainz.net.nz/newsstand/dnsnewz.html
Memex 1995 Interview with Jon Postel http://memex.org/meme4-01.html
Related Articles by Michael Dillon  http://www.memra.com/
Andy Oram "Names and Trademarks" http://www.oreilly.com/people/staff/andyo/ar/dns_trademark.html
Report on ICANN in Berlin http://tbtf.com/resource/brooks-ICANN.html
July 4, 2001 Interview with Esther Dyson by Open Democracy http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=12&DocID=482
Scientific American http://www.sciam.com/2002/0602issue/0602scicit5.html

Scholarship

DNS
Dan Tobias "Cyberspace Controversies" http://www.dantobias.com/politics/cyber/domain.html
INET Panel on Globalization and Internet Governance  (Links to Milton Mueller and Kenneth Cukier) http://www.isoc.org/inet98/proceedings/5a/index.htm
John Mathiason and Charles Kuhlman, Associates for International Management Services http://www.intlmgt.com/research.html
Ellen Rony and Peter Rony, "The Domain Name Handbook"  http://www.domainhandbook.com/
Site maintained by Hal Varian, Dean of SIMS at UC Berkeley. http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/infoecon/index.html
1996 University of Michigan Student Paper on DNS, recommending auction. http://www.spp.umich.edu/spp/courses/744/writings/paper/mainmenu.html
Alexander Gigante "Domain-ia": The Growing Tension Between the DNS and Trademark Law http://ksgwww.harvard.edu/iip/cai/gigante.html
John Horvath "Cone of Silence: Internet Democracy is Failing" http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/2837/1.html
Berkman Study of Internet Governance http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is99/governance/introduction.html
Matthew Zook, Internet Geography http://www.zooknic.com/overview.html
Hiode and Batty, "Power Law Distributions,"  http://www.isoc.org/inet2000/cdproceedings/2a/2a_2.htm
German .de Distributions http://www.denic.de/doc/DENIC/presse/stats2000.en.html

Internet/Usenet
Michael Hauben and Ronda Hauben, Netizens: On the History and Impact of the Net  http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/
More Ronda Hauben Papers http://www.ais.org/~ronda/new.papers/
Usenet History http://www.vrx.net/usenet/history/
Michael Froomkin An Introduction to the "governance" of the Internet http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/seminar/ilsx.htm
Joseph Reagle, papers include Why the Internet is Good  http://cyber.harvard.edu/reagle.html
David Bollier, Aspen Institute: Global Advance of E-Commerce http://www.aspeninst.org/dir/polpro/CSP/C%26SPubs/GAEC/gaecintr.html
OCLC Web Characterization Project http://www.oclc.org/oclc/research/projects/webstats/
Unit for Internet Studies http://www.internetstudies.org/
Global Networks and Local Values http://www.mpp-rdg.mpg.de/dresden1.html
Harvard Law Review: Law of Cyberspace  http://www.harvardlawreview.org/issues/112/7_1577.htm
University of Oxford e-Research http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/po/oii/
Craig McTaggart, Governance of the Internet's Infrastructure http://www.internetstudies.org/members/craimct/thesis/section0.htm

Cyberglobalism (see also digerati agenda)
EFF Global Village Archive http://www.eff.org/pub/Net_culture/Global_village/
Internet Arbitration Association  http://www.endispute.co.uk/isr/israem.htm
Aventis (Triangle Forum)  http://www.hoechst-forum.uni-muenchen.de/digital/document.html
My chapter in International Relations in a Constructed World: Internet Governance Goes Global
 

Side Issues

Digerati Agenda

Policy
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)  http://eff.org/
Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) http://www.cdt.org/
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) http://www.epic.org/
Foresight Institute on Openness and Privacy http://crit.org/http://crit.org/openness/
Internet Policy Institute http://www.internetpolicyInst.org/
People For Internet Responsibility (PFIR) http://www.pfir.org/

Public Process
Teledemocracy http://www.auburn.edu/tann/
Digital Government http://www.ctg.albany.edu/research/workshop/digitalgov.html
WebStandards Project http://www.webstandards.org/
Rick Wesson: "Open Transparent Democracy" http://www.ar.com/otd/html/index.html
Joop Teernstra "Democracy.org" http://www.democracy.org.nz/idno/
Other voting issues  http://www.scientificamerican.com/askexpert/math/math2.html
Berkman Center: Deliberative Discourse http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projects/deliberation/
Ed Gerck: Internet Voting Technology Alliance http://www.ivta.org/
Citizens Online http://www.citizensonline.org.uk/
Democracies Online http://www.e-democracy.org/do/
 

ICANN Elections
Germany  http://www.zdf.de/icann/
  http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/icann/
icann-europe - Talking to the candidates http://www.fitug.de/icann-europe/index.html

Elite Discourse
Reality Club  http://www.edge.org/
1992 CPSR Panel with Esther Dyson, Mitchell Kapor, Peter Denning, Simon Davies, and Roland Homet. http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/cfp92/liasson.html
Hotwired Media Rant http://threads.hotwired.com/cgi-bin/interact/threads?media_rant
Hotwired Synapse Archive http://www.hotwired.com/synapse/archive/index?blue
Ashley Dunn on the "Cool War"  http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/surf/011498mind.html
Michael Vlahos on the Infosphere http://usic.org/infsph.htm and  http://www.intellectualcapital.com/infosphere/about.asp
Richard Stallman on "The Right to Read" http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/philosophy/right-to-read.html
Invoking Law as a Basis for Identity in Cyberspace http://stlr.stanford.edu/STLR/Articles/98_STLR_1/
Michael Goldahaber on The Attention Economy http://www.well.com/user/mgoldh/

Webleaders http://www.webleaders.com/ (broken link)
Technorealism http://www.technorealism.org/
  Technorealism Conference http://cyber.harvard.edu/technorealism/
  Feedmag on Technorealism http://www.feedmag.com/cgi-bin/DialogLoop/areaview.cgi?areanum=5
  Technorealsim Obituary http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/9841/bunn.shtml

Cyberculture http://www.yahoo.com/society_and_culture/cultures_and_groups/cyberculture/organizations/
Cyberia-L http://www.ljextra.com/mailinglists/cyberia-l/index.html

Global Information Infrastructure / Global Information Society (GII/GIS)
OECD http://www.oecd.org/dsti/sti/it/cm/prod/ and http://www.oecd.org/dsti/sti/it/cm/act/osaka.htm
France The Internet and Digital Networks
Asia-Pacific Internet Governance Information Services http://www.intgov.apdip.net/
UNESCO Observatory on the Information Society  http://www.unesco.org/webworld/observatory/index.shtml
 

Norms
CPSR Campaign on Internet Governance http://www.cpsr.org/program/nii/onenetindex.html
   CPSR's One Planet, One Net: Principles for the Internet Era http://www.cpsr.org/program/nii/onenet.html
ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct  http://www.acm.org/constitution/code.html
Cyber-Rights and Cyber-Liberties  http://www.cyber-rights.org/
Cluetrain http://www.cluetrain.com/
David Johnson "The Self-Ordering Net" http://www.cli.org/selford/index.htm
Crypto Anarchy http://www.oberlin.edu/~brchkind/cyphernomicon/chapter4/4.11.html
David P. Reed, "Group Forming Networks" http://www.reed.com/dprframeweb/dprframe.asp

Implementation
John Gilmore's DNS Security site. http://www.toad.com/dnssec/index.html
Namedroppers ftp://rs.internic.net/archives/namedroppers/
           http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=namedroppers
Dublin Core ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-webdav-dublin-core-00.txt
Denninger on Clean News http://www.wired.com/news/print_version/culture/story/16276.html?wnpg=all
Censorware http://censorware.net/
    (Previously located at)  http://censorware.org/censorware/
InterGov http://www.InterGOV.org/
Anonymity http://www.cyberpass.net/
Digital Signatures http://www.mbc.com/ecommerce/
Liberty Alliance Project  http://www.projectliberty.org/
Robert's Rules for Electronic Bodies http://www.bitshift.org/archives/rror.shtml
 

Cyberlaw

This is a distinct discipline in its own right. Only a small portion is reperesented here.

Some Cases

Strick vs. Strickland http://www.strick.com/june22.txt
Ford vs. 2600 Enterprises http://www.2600.com/news/060801-files/FORDtrscpt.pdf

Individuals
Cerebalaw (William S. Lovell) http://cerebalaw.com/domain.htm
David Post's Law of Cyberspace Seminar http://www.temple.edu/lawschool/dpost/cyberlaw.htm
Law Professors on the Web http://www.law.pitt.edu/hibbitts/juristcr.htm#Cyberspace
Michael Froomkin http://law.tm/
Diane Cabell http://mama-tech.com/
Jessica Litman http://www.law.wayne.edu/litman/newdev.html
Carl Oppedahl http://www.patents.com/
 

Institutes
CPTech Page on Jurisdiction http://www.cptech.org/ecom/jurisdiction/hague.html
Global CyberLaw Network http://www.cyberlaw.se/gcln/utilities.htm
Legal scholarship http://www.ljx.com/internet/irdomain.html
Intellectual Property and Internet Law Project http://www.law.tohoku.ac.jp/intproplaw.html
Cyberspace Law Menu http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/csl_menu.html
Cyberspace Law Institute http://www.cli.org/
Canadian Internet Law Resource Page http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~geist/cilrp.html
CompLaw: the Computer Law Resource http://www.CompLaw.com/
Computer Law http://www.computerlaw.com
Internet Library of Law and Court Decisions http://www.phillipsnizer.com/internetlib2.htm
CyberSpace Law Center http://cyber.findlaw.com/
Law News Network http://www.lawnewsnetwork.com/

Articles
The Rules of Cyberspace: Informal Law in a New Jurisdiction: (Todd H. Flaming)   http://www.sw.com/rulescyb.htm

Trademark Problems
Identity Research--Trademarks http://www.idresearch.com/
Links to general information on trademarks http://www.algonet.se/~mpawlo/links.html
US Patent and Trademark Office http://www.uspto.gov/tmdb/index.html
Victim of the DNS trademark wars http://www.pokey.org/
EC Trademark Decisions http://oami.eu.int/en/marque/decis.htm
Master-McNeil, Trademark Information http://www.naming.com/trademark2.html

Journalism-Online Magazines

Communications Week http://www.totaltele.com/cwi/
First Monday http://www.firstmonday.dk/
The Information Society http://www.slis.indiana.edu/TIS/
Red Rock Eater News Service http://communication.ucsd.edu/pagre/agre.html
Matrix Information and Directory Services, Inc. (MIDS) http://www.mids.org/
The Filter http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filter/
Internet Intelligence Bulletin http://iib.com/
BBC Webwise http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/webwise/
Ethics and Information Technology http://www.wkap.nl/journals/ethics_it

Cognition

Philosophy Pages http://people.delphi.com/gkemerling/index.htm
Sites of Interest For Semiotics http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/french/as-sa/EngSem1.html
Cybersemiotic Institute http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/epc/srb/cyber/cyber.html
Univ Colorado: Semiotics  http://www.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/semiotics.html
Images of Mind: The Semiotic Alphabet by John D. Norseen  http://www.acsa2000.net/john2.html
General Semantics http://www.crl.com/~isgs/defined.htm
Semiotics for Beginners http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dgc/semiotic.html
Neuropsycholigical Model of the Stroop Effect http://www.uwm.edu/People/neuropsy/Strpmast.html
Review of Jurgen Habermas, On the Pragmatics of Communication http://whorf.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/issues/10/10-480.html
Epistemic Coherence (foundherentism) http://cogsci.uwaterloo.ca/Articles/Pages/epistemic.html
 

Miscellaneous Links on Standards and Computerization

Greatest Hits
Vannevar Bush, As We May Think (1945)  http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~duchier/pub/vbush/vbush-all.shtml
J.C.R. Licklider, Man-Computer Symbiosis (1960)  http://memex.org/licklider.pdf
Douglas C. Engelebert, Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework (1968)  http://www.histech.rwth-aachen.de/www/quellen/engelbart/ahi62index.html
Eric S. Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar  http://earthspace.net/~esr/writings/cathedral-paper.html
Monkeys http://216.105.167.20/staff/dfox/monkey.htm

Standards
QWERTY vs. DVORAK and BETA vs. VHS. http://wwwpub.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/netpage.html
Standards: The Inside Story http://www.data.com/tutorials/standards.html
ACM Technical Standards Committee http://www.acm.org/tsc/
Unicode Consortium http://www.unicode.org/
BioAPI Consortium http://www.bioapi.org/
Digital Object Identifier System http://www.doi.org/
EGT Language and Character Set Links http://www.indigo.ie/egt/
World Standards Services Network (WSSN) http://www.wssn.net/WSSN/

Scholarship
Ted Friedman, A Cultural History of Personal Computers  http://www.duke.edu/~tlove/biblio.htm
Courses in Social and Ethical Issues of Computing  http://heart.engr.csulb.edu/~sigcas/courses.html
History of Cyberspace http://memex.org/community-memory.html
Micheal S. Mahoney (Princeton University), History of Computing http://www.princeton.edu/~mike/
The Netizens and the Wonderful World of the Net: An Anthology http://www.op.net/cgi-bin/doctxt/inet-refs/netizen.book
Critical discussions of information and communication technology (York University) http://www.yorku.ca/research/dkproj/crit-ict/
Phil Agre, Institutional Aspects of Computing: http://weber.ucsd.edu/~pagre/standards.html
Phil Agre, The Internet and Public Discourse  http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue3_3/agre/index.html
Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex. "The Dynamics of Technological Change"  http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/techdyn/index.html
ACLU Paper "Fahrenheit 451.2: Is Cyberspace Burning?  How Rating and Blocking Proposals May Torch Free Speech on the Internet"  http://www.aclu.org/issues/cyber/burning.html
Martin Libicki, "Who Runs What in the Global Information Grid" http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1247/

Miscellany

Paul Vixie, author of BIND
  Vixie on Spam http://www.dotcomeon.com/swol-12-vixie_p.html
Carl Malamud
Scott Bradner
Rohit Khare
Co-Regulation http://www.csa.fr/html/dos121_1.htm
Robert Shaw
Philippe Landau Tita-nic http://Tita-nic.com/
Jorea Internet Forum http://www.internetforum.or.kr/
ICANN Channel http://www.icannchannel.de/
Design Research http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/design-research/

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