info: Volume 15 Issue 6

Dimensioning the elephant: an empirical analysis of the IPv4 number market

Milton Mueller, Brenden Kuerbis, Hadi Asghari

This article aims to quantify the emerging transfer market for internet protocol (IPv4) numbers and provides an initial assessment of factors and policies impacting those…

Cookies versus clams: clashing tracking technologies and online privacy

Andreas Kuehn

This article compares the use of deep packet inspection (DPI) technology to the use of cookies for online behavioral advertising (OBA), in the form of two competing paradigms. It…

Negotiating meanings for security in the cyberspace

Roxana Radu

This paper aims to review the current debates regarding the role of the state in securing the cyberspace, with a particular focus on the negotiations taking place in the UN…

Discourse networks on state-mandated access blocking in Germany and France

Yana Breindl

The paper iaims to investigate the evolution of discourses, claims and actor positions during the German and French examination of legislation aimed at introducing state-mandated…

Laying the path: governance in early internet design

Sandra Braman

This article aims to present an analysis of ideas and practices regarding governance of and by the network design process by participants in the technical design process during…

New directions in internet governance research

Leo Van Audenhove

Should Vodafone take the money and run?

Peter Curwen