Title Global standard setting in internet governance / by Alison Harcourt, University of Exeter, George Christou, University of Warwick, Seamus Simpson, University of Salford

Edition First edition Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 262 pages) : illustrations Summary The book addresses representation of the public interest in Internet standard developing organisations (SDOs). Much of the existing literature on Internet governance focuses on international organisations such as the United Nations (UN), the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The literature covering standard developing organisations has to date focused on organisational aspects. This book breaks new ground with investigation of standard development within SDO fora. Case studies centre on standards relating to privacy and security, mobile communications, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and copyright. The book lifts the lid on internet standard setting with detailed insight into a world which, although highly technical, very much affects the way in which citizens live and work on a daily basis. In doing this it adds significantly to the trajectory of research on Internet standards and SDOs that explore the relationship between politics and protocols. The analysis contributes to academic debates on democracy and the internet, global self-regulation and civil society, and international decision-making processes in unstructured environments. The book advances work on the Multiple Streams Framework (MS) by applying it to decision-making in non-state environments, namely SDOs which have long been dominated by private actors. The book is aimed at academic audiences in political science, computer science, communications, and science and technology studies as well as representatives from civil society, the civil service, government, engineers and experts working within SDO fora. It will also be accessible to students at the postgraduate and undergraduate levels Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-255) and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 23, 2020) Subject Internet governance -- Law and legislation. Internet governance -- Standards Internet governance -- Law and legislation Form Electronic book Author Christou, George, 1973- author. Simpson, Seamus, author. ISBN 9780192578594 0192578596 9780192578600 019257860X

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