JUS5680 - Autumn 2016
Internet Governance Course Outline
(version 29 August 2016)
Please see the lecture hours and rooms in the schedule published on the course website. The lecturers are:
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Lee Bygrave, Professor at NRCCL
Samson Esayas, Doctoral Research Fellow at NRCCL
Maryke Silalahi Nuth, consultant, Norwegian E-Health Directorate
Tobias Mahler, Professor at NRCCL
Date
Lecture
01.
Sep
Introduction to Internet
Governance
08.
Sep.
Development of Core
Internet Standards – Players
and Processes
12.
Sep
15.
Sep.
Announcement of term
paper question
Management of IP Addresses
22.
Sep.
Domain Name System and
ICANN
29.
Sep.
Domain Name Dispute
Resolution – UDRP, URS
Trade Marks and Beyond
Issues
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Course overview
History of Internet development
Defining features of Internet
Relationship to other networks and concepts
Overview of governance forms
Overview of principal actors involved (IETF, W3C etc.)
RFC process – “rough consensus and running code”
The question for the home exam will be announced
Bygrave & Bing, Ch. 1
Lect
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LB
Bygrave & Bing, Ch. 2-4
LB
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How are IP addresses managed?
Depletion of IPv4 addresses
Issues of distribution inequality
Transition to IPv6
Overview of DNS and principal bodies involved, with particular
focus on ICANN
Preliminary details on IANA transition
Dispute resolution schemes, with particular focus on UDRP and
URS.
Role of ordinary law, with particular focus on trademark law
Bygrave & Bing, Ch. 2-4
SE
Bygrave & Bing, Ch. 5
Froomkin, "Almost Free: An Analysis of ICANN's
‘Affirmation of Commitments’"
Bygrave & Bing, Ch. 5
Mueller, Ch. 7
UDRP Policy; URS Procedure & Rules
LB
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Reading
LB
30.
Sep
13.
Oct.
Submission Deadline
Preliminary draft of term paper
New Generic Top Level
Domains (gTLDs)
20.
Oct.
IANA Transition and ICANN
Accountability Enhancement
27.
Oct.
03.
Nov.
Term Paper Workshop
08.
Nov.
Enforcement Through the
DNS
17.
Nov.
15
Dec.
Summing Up (& Debate)
 Application and evaluation process
 Objection procedure
 Overview of rights protection mechanisms
 Fate of IANA Functions contract
 Creation of Public Technical Identifiers (PTI)
 Enhancing ICANN’s accountability
Work-in-progress discussion on the term paper;
includes tips on how to write a good paper (eventually, a thesis)
World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) and Internet Governance
Forum (IGF)
 History from WSIS to NetMundial to WSIS+10
 Impact and likely outcomes of WSIS/IGF/NetMundial
The roles of International Organizations
 UN (ECOSOC), The Commission on Science and Technology for
Development (CSTD)
 The International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
 Registry Agreements
 Registrar Accreditation Agreement
 Reform of WHOIS
 Domain name takedowns
Interactive revision of legal issues in Internet governance, with specific
relevance for term paper, possibly combined with debate
Global Internet Governance
and Public International Law
Deadline for Submission of
Term Paper
ICANN, Applicant Guidebook (latest version)
TM
LB
Bygrave & Bing, Ch. 6
Mueller, Ch. 8-11
WSIS+10 Resolution
NETmundial Multistakeholder Statement
New gTLD Registry Agreement
Registrar Accreditation Agreement
Material published by Expert Working Group on
gTLD Directory Services
All
MSN
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LB
LB
LB +
MSN