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COURSES:
Special Problems: Information Technology and Communication
Policy
“Internet and Public Policy”:
PUBP 8803
(Syllabus, ver. 3.0; 18 October 2001)
Tuesday & Thursday, 1:30-3 PM
D.M. Smith Building, Room 303
Prof. Hans K. Klein Office: D.M. Smith Building, Room
313
School of Public Policy E-mail: hans.klein@pubpolicy.gatech.edu
Description
This class examines characteristics
of Internet technology that render it unique in the
public policy arena. Topic areas include:
Technology: Many
policy issues are affected by features of Internet technology
design, including: packet switching, routing, the domain
name system (DNS), and the Internet Protocol (IP). We
will survey these design features and relate them to
policy issues.
Institutions: Institutions
have arisen that perform such functions as standards-setting,
management, and policy-making. We will study the patterns
of interests and influence of the Internet Engineering
Task Force (IETF), the Internet Society (ISOC), and
the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN).
Governance: The
Internet's "spaceless" nature is one of its
most significant characteristics. It makes all policy
global and raises questions of governmental authority
beyond territorial borders. We will examine issues of
jurisdiction and global governance.
Public Policies: These
include: anonymity, intellectual property, privacy,
speech regulation, security, and surveillance. We will
examine how these are shaped by underlying parameters
of technology, institutions, and geography.
Students
Enrollment in the class is open. While
primarily intended for MS and PhD students studying
public policy, the class is open to any graduate student
at Georgia Tech. Advanced undergraduates may participate
with permission of the instructor. Although we will
touch on technical topics, no special technical expertise
is required or expected.
Texts for Purchase
Most material will be available on
the Internet. Three books should be purchased:
Janet Abbate, Inventing
the Internet (MIT Press, 1999)
Lawrence Lessig, Code
(2000)
Jessica Littman, Digital
Copyright (Prometheus Books,
2001)
Andy Oram, ed., Peer-to-Peer
(O’Reilly, 2001)
Discussion List
We will use an Email-based discussion
group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PUBP8803
Assignments
1. Every class: a one-paragraph (1-3
sentence) summary of each reading
2. Mid-term paper (7-10 pages)
3. In-class presentation (on a current policy topic.)
4. Final paper: Select a policy case and analyze how
underlying structures of technology, institutions, and
geography shape the issues (12-15 pp.)
Readings
WEEK 1 -- History, Technology, Institutions
Tuesday
Review the syllabus
Thursday
Abbate, Janet Inventing
the Internet (1999) (Through
chapter 1.)
WEEK 2 -- History, Technology, Institutions
Tuesday
Abbate,
Inventing the Internet (Chaps.
2, 3.)
Thursday
Abbate, Inventing
the Internet (Chap.4 .)
WEEK 3 -- History, Technology, Institutions
Tuesday
Abbate, Inventing
the Internet (to the end.)
“FAQ: What is Usenet?” at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/what-is/part1/
Thursday
“A Brief History of the Internet
by those who made the history, including Barry M. Leiner
, Vinton G. Cerf , David D. Clark, Robert E. Kahn, Leonard
Kleinrock, Daniel C. Lynch, Jon Postel, Lawrence G.
Roberts, Stephen Wolff.” http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/
Cerf, Vinton, “History of the
IAB”
WEEK 4 -- Protocols and Institutions
Tuesday
Sabine Helmers, Ute Hoffmann, Jeanette
Hofmann, “Standard Development as Techno-social
Ordering : The Case of the Next Generation of the Internet
Protocol” (5/96) http://duplox.wz-berlin.de/docs/ipng/
J.H. Saltzer, D.P. Reed, David Clark,
“End-to-End Arguments in System Design,”
ACM Transactions in Computer
Systems 2, 4, November 1984,
pp. 277-288. Available at http://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoend.pdf
Thursday
Lessig, Lawrence,
Code (1999), Part 1 (chaps.
1-5)
WEEK 5 -- Code as Law
Tuesday
Lessig, Code,
Part 2 (chaps. 6-8)
Thursday
Lessig, Code,
chaps. 9-12.
WEEK 6 -- Code as Law
Tuesday
Lessig, Code,
chaps. 13-17 and appendix.
Thursday
Froomkin, Michael, “Legal Issues
in Anonymity and Pseudo-Anonymity” in The
Information Society 15 (1999).
WEEK 7 -- Global Governance of Cyberspace
Tuesday
OPEN (reading to be assigned)
Thursday
Johnson, David, and David Post, “The
Rise of Law on the Global Network” in Brian Kahin
and Charles Nesson, Borders
in Cyberspace (1997).
Froomkin, Michael, “The Internet
as a Source of Regulatory Arbitrage” in Kahin and
Nesson (1997)
WEEK 8 -- ICANN
Tuesday
Milton Mueller (1999), "ICANN and Internet Governance
: Sorting through the debris of 'self-regulation',"
info (1999) http://www.icannwatch.org/archive/muell.pdf
Identify the organizations that serve
as registries for various top-level domains.
Thursday
Liu, DNS and Bind,
chap. 2.
Klein, “ICANN and Internet Governance”
The Information Society
(forthcoming)
WEEK 9 -- Global Democracy and Civil Society
Tuesday
Fall Break
Thursday
Klein, Hans, “On-Line Social Movements and Internet
Governance,” Peace
Review, September 2001.
Kleinwaechter, Wolfgang, “ICANN and the New Global
Governance,” info,
special issue on “Global Democracy and the ICANN
Elections,” August 2001.
WEEK 10 -- Internet and (Tele-)
Communications Policy
Tuesday
McChesney, Robert. “The Internet and US Communication
Policy-Making in Historical and Critical Perspective,”
Journal of Communication
vol.46, No. 1, (Winter 1996), pp.
98-124.
Thursday
Werbach, Kevin, “Digital Tornado: The Internet
and Telecommunications Policy” FCC
OPP Working Paper No. 29 (March,
1997) http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/OPP/working_papers/oppwp29pdf.html
WEEK 11 -- Free Speech and Content Control:
Sex, Decency, Censorship
Tuesday
Rose, Frank, “Sex Sells: Young,
Ambitious Seth Warshavsky is the Bob Guccione of the
1990s,” Wired, December 1997. Available at:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.12/sex_pr.html
Bilstad, Blake, “Obscenity and
Indecency in a Digital Age: The Legal and Political
Implications of Cybersmut, Virtual Pornography, and
the Communications Decency Act of 1996,”
Computer and High Technology
Law Journal, Vol. 13, pp.321-384.
Thursday
Nesson, Charles, and Marglin, David,
"The Day the Internet Met the First Amendment,"
Harvard Journal of Law and Technology
10 (1996)
“Putting It In Its Place -- Special
Report: Geography and the Net,” The
Economist, 11 August 2001.
“Constitutional Analysis of the
Oxley Bill -- The Child Online Protection Act.”
Available at http://www.cdt.org/speech/copa/980924constitutional.html
WEEK 12 -- Intellectual Property: Copyright
Tuesday
Litman, Jessica, Digital
Copyright (2001), Through chapter
4.
Thursday
Litman, Digital Copyright,
chaps. 5-8
WEEK 13 -- Intellectual Property: Copyright
Tuesday
OPEN
Thursday
Litman, Digital Copyright,
to end of book.
WEEK 14 -- Privacy
Tuesday
Agre, Phil, and Rotenberg, Marc, Technology
and Privacy: The New Landscape (1997)
selection
Thursday
Holiday (Thanksgiving)
WEEK 15 -- New Architectures, New Policies
Tuesday
Oram, Andy, ed., Peer-to-Peer
(2001), Preface and Part I
Thursday
Oram, ed., Peer-to-Peer
, Part II (skim the detailed
discussions of system design)
WEEK 16 -- New Architectures, New Policies
Tuesday
Oram, ed., Peer-to-Peer
, Part II, chaps. 13-16
Thursday
Oram, ed., Peer-to-Peer
, Part II, chaps. 17-Afterword
Marjory Blumenthal and David Clark, “Rethinking
the Design of the Internet: The End to End Arguments
vs. the Brave New World,” ACM
Transactions on Internet Technology, Vol.
1, No. 1, August 2001, pp. 70-109. Available at http://www.ana.lcs.mit.edu/anaweb/PDF/Rethinking_2001.pdf
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