Norid is working with the University of Oslo on a
research project on governance of the Internet. As part of the project there
will be several seminars leading up to the conclusion in 2014. The project is
pursuing research on governance of the Internet, focusing particularly on the
legal aspects related to governance of the Domain Name System (DNS) and is
funded by the Norwegian Research Council and Norid (the organization
responsible for managing the .no namespace). The project commenced in November
2010 and finishes in November 2014.
The project examines a set of important issues that arise
from recent and ongoing changes to the way in which the DNS of the internet is
governed. The project has two main prongs of research. The first critically examines the ongoing enlargement of the generic Top-Level Domain
namespace and the second assesses the relative utility of respectively (i)
contractual mechanisms and (ii) legislative and treaty-based mechanisms for
global governance structures in Internet governance generally, but with focus
particularly on the management and steering of the DNS. Other issues taken up
under the project include net neutrality, deployment of IP addresses, and
jurisdictional issues related to TLD disputes.
For more information see the IGOV2 Symposium 2013 site
