Governance of the Domain Name System and the Future Internet
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Governance of the Domain Name System and the Future Internet:
Legal, Economic and Political Challenges
8–9th September 2014
Gamle Logen, Grev Wedels plass, Oslo
[Draft Program, 26.05.2014]
Day 1 – Monday 8th September 2014
0915 Coffee / tea / fruit
0945 Welcome:
Lee A. Bygrave (University of Oslo (UiO))
Morning session: Law and economics of DNS governance
Chair and moderator: Lee A. Bygrave
1000 New gTLDs: Legal and economic issues
Tobias Mahler (UiO)
The presentation assesses the ongoing expansion of the gTLD namespace, focusing on the gains and losses it causes for various stakeholders. The assessment treats the expansion not simply as a legal regulatory problem but attempts also to canvass it in economic terms, as a market for products and services, subject to economic laws of supply and demand.
1045 Coffee / tea / fruit
1100 Institutional life-cycles in ccTLD governance: Lessons from the case of .au
John Selby (Macquarie University, Australia)
Applying a model based on New Institutional Economics, the presentation examines the governance of the .au ccTLD, particularly in its early years of operation, and thereafter considers the lessons that the case study offers for stakeholders in other jurisdictions
1145 Panel discussion based on presentations by Mahler and Selby
Chair and moderator: Arild Færaas (Aftenposten) [TBC]
Panellists: Nigel Hickson (ICANN)
Hege Osletten (UNINETT Norid AS)
Martin Boyle (Nominet, UK)
Steinar Grøtterød (Dot Global AS)
John Selby
Tobias Mahler
1300 Lunch
Afternoon session: Internet governance by contract
Chair and moderator: Kåre Lilleholt (UiO)
1345 Internet governance by contract: its rationale, utility and legitimacy
Lee A Bygrave (UiO)
The presentation examines the role of contract in DNS governance and in Internet governance more generally. It discusses why contract is often preferred over statute as a legal tool for such governance. It also assesses the relative utility and legitimacy of contractual regimes, focusing particularly on the regimes established by ICANN and Facebook.
1430 Contract and user empowerment
Emily Weitzenboeck (UiO)
1515 Coffee / tea / fruit
1530 Automated Contracting and the EU Consumer Rights Directive
Christiana Markou (European University, Cyprus)
1615 Discussion of presentations by Bygrave, Weitzenboeck and Markou
Lead commentator: Karin Sein (University of Tartu)
Day 2 – Tuesday 9th September 2014
0915 Coffee / tea / fruit
Morning session: Internet governance policy development
Chair and moderator: _
0945 Recent policy initiatives: A whirlwind but critical tour
William Drake (University of Zurich)
1045 Coffee / tea / fruit
1100 Discussion of presentation by Drake
Lead commentator: Chris Marsden (Sussex University)
1200 Lunch
Afternoon session (i): Aspects of the human rights dimension in Internet governance
Chair and moderator: _
1245 The international and transnational politics of governance of online expression
Ben Wagner (University of Pennsylvania)
1330 Privacy post-Snowden
Ian Brown (Oxford Internet Institute)
1415 Discussion of presentations by Wagner and Brown
Lead commentator: Sophie Kwasny or Lee Hibbard (Council of Europe)
1500 Coffee / tea / fruit
Afternoon session (ii): Aspects of the economic dimension in Internet governance
Chair and moderator: _
1520 The role of the World Trade Organization in Internet governance
Mira Burri (University of Bern)
1600 Net neutrality, privacy and innovative business models
Jonathan Cave (University of Warwick)
1640 Discussion of presentations by Burri and Cave
Lead commentator: Ian Walden (Queen Mary, University of London)
1720 Conference close
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