Future Internet in Korea Yanghee Choi Seoul National University, Future Internet Forum.
THE FUTURE OF INTERNET LAW
Transcript of THE FUTURE OF INTERNET LAW
THE FUTURE OF INTERNET LAW
a review of Jonathan Zittrain’s The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It
James Grimmelmann (will attend with pleasure)Paul Ohm (sends regrets)
IP Scholars 2009
PLAN OF ATTACK
• Isolate and identify key features of Zittrain’s approach
• Set him in context with like-minded scholars
• Call the movement “architecturalism”
• . . .
• Profit!
THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET IN FIVE BULLETS
• The Internet is generative
• That’s good
• Generativity creates problems
• Take them seriously
• But preserve generativity
HOW JZ THINKS
• Focus on social and legal consequences of technical decisions
• In particular, identify the technical features that matter most
• Counter-focus on how technical decisions get made
• Describe the political economies of the Internet
• Which technical-social systems are desirable and stable?
FOUR VIRTUES OF JZ’S APPROACH
• It gets the technology right
• It’s inherently interdisciplinary
• It crosses legal boundaries
• It tells a dynamic story
LESSIG, CODEversion 3.0?
SOUND FAMILIAR YET?
• “end-to-end principle”
• “layer-crossing regulation”
• “network neutrality”
• “piracy surveillance”
• “charismatic code”
• “duty of ongoing design”
• “technological due process”
• “the accountable Net”
• “wireless Carterfone”
• “internal perspective”
• “privacy architecture”
• &c.
WHY ARCHITECTURALISM MATTERS
• The Internet is more important than a horse
• The same technical issues recur with monotonous regularity
• Moving from “law of …” to “law and …”
QUESTIONS FOR YOU
• Do you see the pattern too, or are we delusional?
• Who fits into this intellectual tradition? (offline may be best)
• Do you have a better name than “architecturalism?”
QUESTIONS FOR US ME?