Giants, Dwarfs and Decentralized Alternatives to Internet-Based Services: An Issue of Internet Governance?
Giants, Dwarfs and Decentralized Alternatives to Internet-Based Services: An Issue of Internet Governance?
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基于互联网的服务的巨人、侏儒和去中心化替代方案：互联网治理问题？
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2015
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F. Musiani
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F. Musiani
本文讨论了基于去中心化网络架构的互联网服务设计替代方法的五年（并正在进行）调查的一些结果。本文特别关注了这项研究对互联网治理研究的意义，因为架构变化影响了服务提供商、内容生产者、用户和网络运营商之间的能力和责任的重新划分；促进用户权利的形成，制定和执行法律的方式；重新设定互联网作为全球设施的公共和私人用途之间的界限。这篇论文认为，深入研究网络巨人和小矮人之间的紧张关系——不同技术和组织架构之间的紧张关系，以及它们的政治后果——有助于摆脱通常以制度为主的互联网治理观点，给予其不太明显的安排、物质性和实践应有的重视。
This paper discusses some of the results of a five-year-long (and on-going) investigation of alternative approaches to the design of Internet services, based on decentralized network architectures. In particular, the paper focuses on the implications of this research for the study of Internet governance, inasmuch as architectural changes affect the repartition of competences and responsibilities between service providers, content producers, users and network operators; contribute to the shaping of user rights, of the ways to produce and enforce law; reconfigure the boundary between public and private uses of the internet as a global facility. The paper argues that delving into the tensions between the dwarfs and the giants of the Net – the tensions between different technical and organizational architectures, and their political consequences – helps to disengage from what is often a predominantly institutional view of Internet governance, to give the due emphasis to its less visible arrangements, its materiality and its practice.