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Tables of Contents for Ruling the Root
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction: The Problem of the Root
1
14
A Constitutional Moment
3
2
The Root
5
2
Governance
7
3
Institutionalization
10
1
Goals and Plan of the Book
11
4
I The Root as Resource
The Basic Political Economy of Identifiers
15
16
Uniqueness Requires Coordination
15
1
Defining the Space
16
1
Assigning Unique Values
17
9
Governance Arrangements
26
1
An Example: The Ethernet Address Space
27
2
Review of the Framework
29
2
The Internet Name and Address Spaces
31
26
The Internet Address Space
32
7
The Internet Name Space
39
8
The DNS Root
47
9
Conclusion
56
1
The Root and Institutional Change: Analytical Framework
57
16
Formation of Property Rights
58
2
Property Rights
60
1
Technological Change, Endowment, and Appropriation
61
2
Institutionalization
63
4
Applying the Framework to Internet Governance
67
6
II The Story of the Root
Growing the Root
73
32
Prehistory
74
1
The Origin of the Root
75
7
Growth and Convergence
82
7
Growth and Governance
89
9
Who Controlled the Root?
98
7
Appropriating the Root: Property Rights Conflicts
105
36
Endowment: Commercial Use and the World Wide Web
106
9
Conflicts over Second-Level Domains
115
9
Conflicts over Top-Level Domains
124
10
Conflicts over the Root
134
7
The Root in Play
141
22
IAHC and the gTLD-MoU
142
4
Political Reaction to the gTLD-MoU
146
5
Challenges to Network Solutions
151
3
The U.S. Government Intervenes
154
5
The Green Paper and Its Aftermath
159
4
Institutionalizing the Root: The Formation of ICANN
163
22
From Green Paper to White Paper
164
11
The International Forum on the White Paper
175
10
The New Regime
185
26
Redistributing the Riches of .com: Registrar Accreditation
186
4
Branding the Name Space: WHOIS and UDRP
190
4
The Assimilation of Network Solutions
194
3
U.S. Government Policy Authority over the Root
197
1
Representation: Barriers to Entry
197
4
New Top-Level Domains
201
4
Country Codes and National Governments
205
6
III Issues and Themes
ICANN as Global Regulatory Regime
211
16
What ICANN Is Not
212
5
What ICANN Is
217
4
Forces Affecting ICANN's Future
221
6
Global Rights to Names
227
28
A Web Site by Any Other Name...
228
3
Expanding Trademark Rights
231
7
New Rights in Names: WIPO 2
238
7
Free Expression vs. Controlled Vocabulary
245
7
DNS vs. WIPO
252
3
Property Rights and Institutional Change: Some Musings on Theory
255
10
Artificial Scarcity: ``Positive Feedback'' and Path Dependence
255
4
Who Owns the Name Space?
259
6
The Taming of the Net
265
4
Selected Acronyms
269
4
Notes
273
30
References
303
8
Index
311