Random Writings

Collected here are various random writings by Karl Auerbach.

There is not any particular thread holding these writings together - consider this the "miscellaneous" file.

• ICANN Mission Statement Generator
• Stakeholderism - The Wrong Road For Internet Governance (5 pages pdf) - Submitted to UN Internet Governance Forum meeting of October 2006 (Athens).
• Structural Principles For Internet Governance (6 pages pdf) - Submitted to UN Internet Governance Forum meeting of October 2006 (Athens).
• Questions and Answers About The Internet and Internet Governance - Submitted to the UN ICT Task Force Global Forum on Internet Governance, 25-26 March 2004, UN Headquarters, New York
• Materials at the ITU meeting on Internet Governance in Geneva (February 2004):
  • Deconstructing Internet Governance
  • Governing the Internet, A Functional Approach
  • First Law of the Internet
  • Panel presentation and speakers notes
• Keynote Talk - From Barnstorming to Boeing - Transforming the Internet Into a Lifeline Utility (Powerpoint - 54Kbytes)
  (Speakers notes - Adobe Acrobat - 155Kbytes)
  8th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, Colorado Springs, Colorado (March 26, 2003)
• My testimony before the Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space of the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. (June 12, 2002)
• A Plan To Reform ICANN: A Functional Approach - (April 2002)
• A Prescription To Promote The Progress of Science and Useful Arts - Reining-in Private Governance Organizations (PGOs).  As published in the January 2002 issue of Internet Law and Business (http://www.lawreporters.com)
• Protecting the Internet's Domain Name System - Thoughts on specific steps to protect the DNS system.
• Thoughts on Internet Naming Systems - A presentation to Committee on Internet Navigation and the Domain Name System of the National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board - July 11, 2001 (Powerpoint)
• Partial report on the December, 2000 IETF meeting in San Diego.