Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance

by Laura DeNardis

Book Overview

What are the global implications of the looming shortage of Internet addresses and the slow deployment of the new IPv6 protocol designed to solve this problem?

The Internet has reached a critical point. The world is running out of Internet addresses. There is a finite supply of approximately 4.3 billion Internet Protocol (IP) addresses--the unique binary numbers required for every exchange of information over the Internet--within the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262042576
• ISBN13: 9780262042574
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher