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The standards development organization’s (SDO) role in Internet governance is notable given its central place in society. The bulk of decision-making for the Internet takes place in technical standards fora, such as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which have no formal state or public sector body membership. Recent years have seen a significant degree of spill-over of highly politicized policy areas such as data protection, digital rights management, security, and bandwidth and spectrum to SDOs, policies which were formerly domains of the nation state. SDOs are grappling with the efficiency of cloud storage, limits of spectrum use, and autonomy and management of devices. Security questions abound as demonstrated by the Cambridge Analytica scandal and Snowden revelations. The book breaks new ground by exploring decision-making within SDOs. It provides an invaluable insight into a world, which, although highly technical, affects the way in which citizens live and work on a daily basis. The work stands out from existing literature on Internet governance, which focuses on international organizations such as the United Nations (UN), the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). As such, it adds significantly to the trajectory of research that explores the relationship between politics and protocols. It explains the interplay between different interests and whether civil society and other actors are able to defend and promote citizens’ rights within SDOs. As such, it contributes to knowledge about how the public interest is promoted.

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The EU plays a significant role in public policy aspects of Internet governance, having created in the late s the dot eu Internet Top Level Domain (TLD). This enables users to register names under a European online address label. This paper explores key public policy issues in the emergent governance system for dot eu, because it provides an interesting case of new European transnational private governance. Specifically, dot eu governance is a reconciliation resulting from a governance cultural clash between the European regulatory state and what can be described broadly as the Internet community. The EU has customised the governance of dot eu towards a public-private dispersed agencification model. The paper extends the evidence base on agencification within trans-European regulatory networks and the emergence of private transnational network governance characterised by self-regulation.

Much academic work on governance in recent years has explored responses which states have made to sectors of the economy, usually historically well-rooted nationally, which have been subject to globalizing pressures. Less work exists on responses which are being made to new parts of the economy emerging outside the nation state with inherently global characteristics. The Internet -and specifically its naming and addressing system -provides an example of how the state has aimed to assert public interest governance authority in a system initially absent its influence. This article explores the nature and consequences of this activity, in the process contributing to the study of the Internet and governance. Working within the limitations but also the opportunities created by policy norms developed at the global level, the article finds that the state has been instrumental in the development of novel public-private governance systems for Internet country code Top Level Domains.

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Zusammenfassung Im Verbundbrückenbau finden Verbund- dübelleisten aufgrund günstiger Tragfähigkeit und Ermüdungseigenschaften zunehmende Anwendung. Das Ermüdungskonzept der aktuellen allgemeinen Bauartgenehmigung der Verbunddübelleiste ist jedoch sehr konservativ, unter anderem weil es auf die Vermeidung der Ermüdungsinitiierung beispielsweise im Dübelzahn abzielt. Damit bleiben Umlagerungsmöglichkeiten der von Dübeln übertragenen Schubkräfte im Verbundträger ebenso unberücksichtigt wie die potenziell lange Rissfortschrittsphase mit guter Resttragfähigkeit eines angerissenen Stahlzahns. Um das Ermüdungskonzept zukünftig um die Rissfortschrittsphase zu erweitern und auch Umlagerungseffekte in die Sicherheitsbetrachtung mit einzubeziehen, werden Untersuchungen zum Rissfortschritt in Verbunddübelleisten an Kleinteil- und Trägerversuchen durchgeführt. Experimentelle Versuche sollen in erster Linie der Verifizierung numerischer Untersuchungen dienen, um nach weiteren Parameterstudien zu verschiedenen Einflüssen ein Bemessungskonzept zu entwickeln, das über die Abgrenzung gegenüber der Rissinitiierung hinausgeht.

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