Global Internet Governance: Research and Public Policy Challenges for the Next Decade

9:00

Welcome 

Louis W. Goodman, Dean, School of International Service; Nanette S. Levinson, Director International Communication Program; Derrick L. Cogburn, Director, COTELCO, Program Committee co-chair; Milton Mueller, Chair, GigaNet Steering Committee and Program Committee co-chair

9:30 – 10:45

Privacy: The Internet advertising economy meets “do not track”

Leo van Audenhove, Moderator. Peder Magee, Senior Staff Attorney, Federal Trade Commission; Sharon Goott Nissim , EPIC Consumer Protection Fellow; Erica Newland , Center for Democracy and Technology; Berin Szoka, TechFreedom

11:00 – 12:15

IP addressing in the new age of scarcity

Milton Mueller, Moderator. Speakers: Peter Thimmesch, Depository, Inc.; John Curran, ARIN; Vernita Harris, NTIA (invited); Michael Froomkin, U. Miami Law

12:30 – 2:00

Featured Speaker: Assistant Secretary for Commerce Larry Strickling,NTIA (Title TBA), Nanette Levinson, Moderator. Box Lunch (Sponsored by the International Communication Program, School of International Service, American University).  

2:00 – 3:15

Revolution 2.0: The Internet in the Middle East and North Africa

Derrick Cogburn, moderator. Nivien Saleh, Egypt; Robert Guerra, Freedom House; Andy Carvin, NPR; Khaled Koubaa, Arab World Internet Institute, Tunisia

3:30 – 4:30

The place of the Internet in world affairs: Cybersecurity, Wikileaks and Internet freedom

Laura DeNardis, presenter. Discussants: Tom Kellerman, CTO, AirPatrol Corp.; Becky Burr, Wilmer Hale; Rebecca MacKinnon, NAF; Scott Bernard, Federal Chief Architect in the Executive Office of the President

NB: This panel will be "Not for Attribution" because of Federal regulations and will not be webcast.

4:40

Closing Discussion: Whither the IGF? JP Singh, Moderator; Discussants, Marilyn Cade, Steering Committee of the Internet Governance Forum - USA (IGF-USA)

5:30

No-Host Dinner (RSVP required to icsis@american.edu):  Indique Heights, 2 Wisconsin Circle, Chevy Chase, MD 20815-7005, 301.656-4822. Cost: $35 + tax + tip per person.

9:00 - 10:30

The ICANN Regime

Moderator: Fiona Alexander

Michael Froomkin,

U. Miami Law (USA)

Almost Free: An Analysis of ICANN’s ‘Affirmation of Commitments’

Jon Weinberg, Wayne State

U. (USA)

Governments, privatization and “privatization”: ICANN and the GAC

Konstantinos Komaitis,

U. Strathclyde Law (UK)

Trademark Law's Increment through the UDRP: Ten Years in the making of law

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Protocol Politics

Moderator: Laura DeNardis

Nathan Bares

Sandra Braman

U.W.-Milwaukee (USA)

Fair Queuing: The Ethics of Network Gateways

Hadi Asghari, TU Delft (NL)

Milton Mueller, Syracuse U. (USA)

Deep Packet Inspection in the Wild

Ashwin Matthew

UC Berkeley, (USA)

A Tale of Two Protocols: Constructions of authority in DNS and BGP

12:30 - 1:30

BOX LUNCH Sponsored by the

International Communication

Program, SIS)

 Irene Wu. Future research questions related to telecom, media,

 and Internet policy: a perspective from inside the FCC

1:30 - 3:00

Evolving institutions

Moderator: Roy Balleste

Nanette Levinson

Derrick Cogburn

American U. (USA)

Researching an Institutional Innovation:

The IGF and Its Ecosystem After 5-Years

Renee Marlin-Bennet

E. Nicole Thornton,

Johns Hopkins U. (USA)

Borderlands of the Internet:

Social Media and Governance

Kirsten Rodine-Hardy

Northeastern U. (USA)

Andreas Schmidt

TU Delft (NL)

Governing the Information Economy in Europe:

Networks and Governance in Theory and in Practice

Peer production as a mode of internet security provisioning in

Estonia 2007 and Conficker

3:00 - 3:30

Coffee break

3:30 - 5:00

Freedom of expression

Moderator: Nivien Saleh

Courtney Radsch

Freedom House

Digital Dictators, Conscientious Corporations and

Wired Youth: Implications of Middle East Uprisings for

Internet Governance

Warigia Bowman

American U. Cairo

Protecting the Internet from Dictators

Ben Wagner, European U

(Italy)

Push-button-autocracy: deconstructing and reconstructing

Internet control in Tunisia