Global Standard Setting in Internet Governance

            This book lifts the lid on Internet governance within standards bodies with detailed insight into a world which, although highly technical, very much affects the way in which citizens live and work.

            The book details the way in which citizens, states, companies, and engineers interact within standards bodies and seek to steer policy adoption.

1: Introduction: global standard setting in Internet governance.;

2: Informal governance and decision-making through multiple streams: explaining standard developing organisations.;

3: Internal governance of the IETF, W3C and IEEE: structure, decision-making and internationalisation.;

4: The Quick UDP Internet Connection (QUIC) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 standards: Snowden and the impact on the encryption debate in the IETF.;

5: Political drift and forum shifts: the case of browser development.;

6: 802.11ax: technical standards-making, unlicensed spectrum and the future of WiFi.;

7: The Do Not Track (DNT) standard: a failure of self-regulation and the politics of contestation.;

8: Dynamic Spectrum Access, technical standards and competing spectrum policy interests in the TV white space environment.;

9: Protocols and state surveillance.;

10: Engineers and the public interest.;

11: The Internet of Things: a policy window for standard essential patents.;

12: Conclusion: SDO decision-making and the public interest.