Jonathan Zittrain

Jonathan Zittrain

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Jonathan Zittrain is an assistant professor of law at Harvard University and a director of its Berkman Center for Internet & Society. He recently accepted a tenured position at Oxford University, though he will remain a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. He was educated at Yale University, Harvard Law School, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Zittrain's research includes digital property, privacy, and speech, and the role played by private "middlepeople" in Internet architecture. He runs the H2O Project. He is a principal investigator of the Open Net Initiative, a collaboration between researchers at the University of Toronto, the University of Cambridge, and Harvard Law School. He was co-counsel for the plaintiffs in Eldred v. Ashcroft, and filed an amicus brief of law professors in the MGM v. Grokster Case.

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Questioning the Illusion of Internet Governance

I confess, I don't get it. Much has been written about the apparent desire by the United Nations, spurred by China, Cuba, and other informationally repressive regimes, to "take control of the Internet." Oddly, the concrete focus of this battle -- now the topic of a Senate resolution! -- is a comparatively trivial if basic part of Net architecture: the domain name system. The spotlight on domain name management is largely a combination of historical accident and the unfortunate assignment of country code domains like .uk and .eu, geographically-grounded codes that give the illusion of government outposts and control in cyberspace. more»

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