Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/214028 
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2016
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[Journal:] Internet Policy Review [ISSN:] 2197-6775 [Volume:] 5 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society [Place:] Berlin [Year:] 2016 [Pages:] 1-13
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Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin
Abstract: 
Before the emergence of internet governance bodies like the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), early network designers learned how to govern the internet in their work building the Domain Name System (DNS). Using original archival research, this article follows conversations among network designers in their daily struggle to keep the Advanced Research Project Agency Network (ARPANET) and early internet in working order. Drawing from social constructivism and path dependence theory, this history helps to conceive "internet governance" beyond its institutional focus, considering how the work of ordering the internet necessarily exceeds the parameters of governance authorities.
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Internet governance
Internet history
Network design
Domain Name System (DNS)
Path dependence
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