Internet Designers as Policy-Makers

Published: April 24, 2017, 4:45 p.m.

b'Those responsible for technical design of the Internet are essential among the policy-makers for this large-scale sociotechnical infrastructure. Based on analysis of the RFCs (1969-1999), this talk looks at how these policy-makers thought and think about policy issues while addressing technical problems. Findings include basic design criteria that serve as constitutional principles; interactions between human and non-human users; tensions between geo- and network-political citizenship; early internationalization; and what Internet designers can teach us about decision-making under conditions of instability in everything from the design subject on.\\n\\nFor more about this event, visit:\\nhttps://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheons/2017/02/Braman'