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| Building on the work by the project group on the Internet as a cultural space, a second generation of projects now addresses the subject of Internet Governance . This work focuses on new regulations currently enforced on the Internet. There are two main empirical research projects: (a) the reform of the domain name system (DNS) and (b) the processes of consensus-building and decision-making on the Internet. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (a) The DNS is being expanded | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| At the same time, the conditions for assigning domain names are gradually being revised. The reform process is crucial for the Internet because it touches directly on the conditions of virtual existence on the net. Numerical net addresses and domain names are essential for accessing and using the Internet. The objective of the study on the DNS is to analyze the differing interests and reform options and to evaluate them for their effect on users' opportunities to communicate and for the way in which the net is used. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (b) Consensus-building and decision-making on the Internet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The study on global processes of consensus-building and decision-making on the Internet ties into the discussion of trends toward transnationalization in the area of international relations. The empirical focus of the work is on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Internet's new administrative and coordination organ. The primary question is about the relation between national and transnational forms of consensus-building. A particularly interesting aspect of this issue is the role of users in Internet governance. The objective of the study is to advance theory-building on transnational forms of democratic organization and coordination. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Research fellow: Jeanette Hofmann Phone: +49 - (0)30 - 25491-288 E-Mail: jeanette@wzb.eu Secretary: Claudia Nentwich Phone: +49 - (0)30 - 25491-207 E-Mail: cok@wzb.eu |
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