Article Title

What’s In a Name?

Authors

Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard Law School

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

12-2002

Publication Citation

55 Federal Communications Law Journal 153 (2002)

Abstract

Book Review: Ruling the Root, Milton L. Mueller, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002, 301 pages.

A review of Milton L. Mueller's Ruling the Root, The MIT Press, 2002. In the spring of 1998, the U.S. government told the Internet: Govern yourself. This unfocused order-a blandishment, really, expressed as an awkward "statement of policy" by the Department of Commerce, carrying no direct force of law-came about because the management of obscure but critical centralized Internet functions was at a political crossroads. In Ruling the Root, Mueller thoroughly documents the colorful history both before and after this moment of inflection, and gives a fair appraisal both of the interests at stake and of the ways in which those interests have influenced the course of that history.

Recommended Citation

Zittrain, Jonathan (2002) "What’s In a Name?," Federal Communications Law Journal: Vol. 55: Iss. 1, Article 7.
Available at: https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/fclj/vol55/iss1/7