Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance

摘要: What are the global implications of looming shortage Internet addresses and slow deployment new IPv6 protocol designed to solve this problem? The has reached a critical point. world is running out addresses. There finite supply approximately 4.3 billion Protocol (IP) addresses-the unique binary numbers required for every exchange information over Internet-within Internet's prevailing technical architecture (IPv4). In 1990s standards community selected (IPv6) that would expand number exponentially-to 340 undecillion Despite decade predictions about imminent conversion, adoption barely begun. Politics examines what's at stake politically, economically, technically in selection protocol. Laura DeNardis's key insight protocols political. intersects with provocative topics including civil liberties, US military objectives, globalization, institutional power struggles, promise democratic freedoms. DeNardis offers recommendations governance, based not only on concerns but principles openness transparency, address scarcity versus problem.