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Protocol Politics - 9780262526753

Un libro in lingua di Laura Denardis edito da Mit Pr, 2014

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The Internet has reached a critical point. The world is running out of Internetaddresses. There is a finite supply of approximately 4.3 billion Internet Protocol (IP)addresses--the unique binary numbers required for every exchange of information over theInternet--within the Internet's prevailing technical architecture (IPv4). In the 1990s the Internetstandards community selected a new protocol (IPv6) that would expand the number of Internetaddresses exponentially--to 340 undecillion addresses. Despite a decade of predictions aboutimminent global conversion, IPv6 adoption has barely begun.

ProtocolPolitics examines what's at stake politically, economically, and technically in theselection and adoption of a new Internet protocol. Laura DeNardis's key insight is that protocolsare political. IPv6 intersects with provocative topics including Internet civil liberties, USmilitary objectives, globalization, institutional power struggles, and the promise of globaldemocratic freedoms. DeNardis offers recommendations for Internet standards governance, based notonly on technical concerns but on principles of openness and transparency, and examines the globalimplications of looming Internet address scarcity versus the slow deployment of the new protocoldesigned to solve this problem.

Informazioni bibliografiche

  • Titolo del Libro in lingua: Protocol Politics
  • Sottotitolo: The Globalization of Internet Governance
  • Lingua: English
  • AutoreLaura Denardis
  • Editore: Mit Pr
  • Collana: Mit Pr (Paperback)
  • Data di Pubblicazione: 29 Agosto '14
  • Genere: TECHNOLOGY and ENGINEERING
  • Pagine: 270
  • Dimensioni mm: 228 x 152 x 12
  • ISBN-10: 0262526751
  • EAN-13: 9780262526753