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December 2012
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Internet "Governance"鈥擜 View from One of the Pioneers

Internet "Governance"鈥擜 View from One of the Pioneers

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华体会, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
December 12, 2012
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December 2012
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1015 15th Street, N.W., 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

Speakers:
Harold Furchtgott-Roth,

Hudson Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Economics of the Internet

Stephen Crocker,

Chair, ICANN Board of Directors

First there was the Defense Department-funded Arpanet project connecting mainframe computers at four American universities in the late 1960s. And then, gradually, through a series of key steps鈥攂eginning in the United States and eventually involving the rest of the world鈥攖oday's Internet emerged. Its central technologies and design principles, packet-switching, minimal intelligence at the core, reliance on innovation at the edges鈥攈ave proved vastly more powerful than its pioneers ever imagined. Voice transmission, for example, once the hallmark of international communications systems, is now just a modest Internet application.

Stephen Crocker discussed recent, dramatic changes in Internet technology鈥攁nd equally dramatic, accompanying changes in the Internet's supporting structures. He speaks of "supporting structures"鈥攔ather than simple "governance"鈥攖o emphasize a profound and ongoing evolution in thinking about the essential nature of public-sector involvement in modern telecommunications. Mr. Crocker will provide an overview of the current landscape and comment on the challenges he anticipates over the next decade.

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