See Form and Substance in Cyberspace, 6 J. Small & Emerging Bus. L. 93 (2002), available online http://personal.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/formandsubstance.pdf (especially pp. 119-122 ("The role of the root server operators")) and more generally Wrong Turn in Cyberspace: Using ICANN to Route Around the APA and the Constitution, 50 Duke L.J. 17 (2000), available online http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/icann.pdf On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Doug Luce wrote:
An interesting question I've dealt with a few times:
From whom do the root nameservers derive their authority?
Doug
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