You might also want to check the work being done on ICANN by Wolfgang Kleinwächter, who has studied the issue of domain names for years. See for example a paper recently published by the Centre for Internet Research http://www.imv.au.dk/cfi/eng/pub Best, Rune ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rune Dalgaard, MA, Doctoral Candidate Dept. of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University Address: Niels Juels Gade 84, 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark Phone: (+45) 89 42 19 48 / Fax: (+45) 89 42 19 52 E-mail: runed@imv.aau.dk / Web: http://www.imv.au.dk/medarbejdere/runed ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Hello all,

After reading the recent discussion on railroad gauges deriving from ancient standards, I am curious if anyone is doing work looking into technical standards. I'm writing my undergrad honors thesis on technical Internet standards, and the need for public interest involvement in the standardization process, viewing this as a subset of the "technical is political" or "code is law" body of work. ... Thanks for your help, /allan