Milton Mueller

Georgia Institute of Technology

Professor

School of Public Policy

Schhol of Cybersecurity and Privacy

Atlanta, GA 30332

United States

http://www.spp.gatech.edu/faculty/milt

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1.

The End of the Net as We Know it? Deep Packet Inspection and Internet Governance

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 05 Aug 2010
Ralf Bendrath and Milton Mueller
European Parliament and Georgia Institute of Technology
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Internet governance, Internet regulation, Deep Packet Inspection, Privacy, Surveillance, Censorship, Internet service providers, Actor-Centered Institutionalism, Disruptive technology, Socio-technical systems, Network Neutrality, Social Construction of Technology, Technological Determinism

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Analyzing Bug Bounty Programs: An Institutional Perspective on the Economics of Software Vulnerabilities

2014 TPRC Conference Paper
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 01 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2016
Andreas Kuehn and Milton Mueller
Syracuse University, School of Information Studies and Georgia Institute of Technology
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information security, cybersecurity, institutional economics, markets, software vulnerabilities, zero-day exploits, comparative analysis

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Profiling the Profilers: Deep Packet Inspection and Behavioral Advertising in Europe and the United States

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 02 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2012
Andreas Kuehn and Milton Mueller
Syracuse University, School of Information Studies and Georgia Institute of Technology
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Deep Packet Inspection, Online Behavioral Advertising, Targeted Advertising, NebuAd, Phorm, USA, European Union, Privacy, Informed Consent, Internet Service Providers, Actor Centered Institutionalism, Technology Aware Policy Analysis Framework, Internet Governance

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Towards Global Internet Governance: How to End U.S. Control of ICANN Without Sacrificing Stability, Freedom or Accountability

2014 TPRC Conference Paper
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 14 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2014
Milton Mueller and Brenden Kuerbis
Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia Institute of Technology - School of Public Policy
Downloads 723 (59,687)
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Internet governance; ICANN; IANA functions contract; global governance; Domain Name System

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Net Neutrality as Global Principle for Internet Governance

GigaNet: Global Internet Governance Academic Network, Annual Symposium 2007
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 21 Jun 2016
Milton Mueller, Derrick L. Cogburn, John Mathiason and Jeanette Hofmann
Georgia Institute of Technology, American University, Cornell Institute of Public Affairs and Social Science Research Centre Berlin
Downloads 658 (67,444)
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Challenging the Social Media Moral Panic: Preserving Free Expression Under Hypertransparency

Cato Institute Policy Analysis, No. 876, 2019
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 31 Dec 2019
Milton Mueller
Georgia Institute of Technology
Downloads 484 (98,862)

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free speech, 1996 Telecommunications Act, social media, Facebook, hypertransparency, internet regulation, fake news

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Reinventing Media Activism: Public Interest Advocacy in the Making of U.S. Communication-Information Policy, 1960-2002

Information Society, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 169-187, July-August 2004
Number of pages: 91 Posted: 07 Sep 2004
Milton Mueller
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Media policy, telecommunications policy, Internet policy, citizens groups, collective action, social movement theory

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Property and Commons in Internet Governance

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 02 May 2011
Milton Mueller
Georgia Institute of Technology
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property rights, commons, Internet governance, economic institutions, network neutrality, telecommunications policy

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Deep Packet Inspection and Bandwidth Management: Battles Over Bittorrent in Canada and the United States

TPRC 2011
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 24 Jan 2012
Milton Mueller and Hadi Asghari
Georgia Institute of Technology and Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
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Negotiating a New Governance Hierarchy: An Analysis of the Conflicting Incentives to Secure Internet Routing

Communications and Strategies, No. 81, pp. 125-142, 2011
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 15 Mar 2012
Brenden Kuerbis and Milton Mueller
Georgia Institute of Technology - School of Public Policy and Georgia Institute of Technology
Downloads 237 (214,196)

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routing, internet addresses, security, RPKI, ICANN, Regional Internet Registries, ISPs

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Securitizing Critical Infrastructure, Blurring Organizational Boundaries: The U.S. Einstein Program

TPRC 41: The 41st Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 02 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 24 Dec 2013
Andreas Kuehn and Milton Mueller
Syracuse University, School of Information Studies and Georgia Institute of Technology
Downloads 231 (219,675)

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Cybersecurity, Critical Infrastructure, Securitization, Deep Packet Inspection, IDS/IPS, ISPs, Einstein, DHS, US-CERT, DoD, Defense Industrial Base, United States, New Institutional Economics, Transaction Costs Theory

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Governing Internet Territory: ICANN, Sovereignty Claims, Property Rights and Country Code Top-Level Domains

18 Colum. Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 435, Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, Vol. XVIII, GigaNet: Global Internet Governance Academic Network, Annual Symposium 2015
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 12 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 26 Nov 2019
Milton Mueller and Farzaneh Badiei
Georgia Institute of Technology and DigitalMedusa
Downloads 230 (220,583)
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ccTLDs, ICANN, Sovereignty, Property rights, Law and Economics

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Is It “Trade?” Data Flows and the Digital Economy

TPRC 46: The 46th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy 2018
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 10 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 15 Aug 2018
Milton Mueller and Karl Grindal
Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia Institute of Technology
Downloads 222 (228,133)
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International trade, Digital Trade, Data flows, International Factor Movements

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Internet Measurements and Public Policy: Mind the Gap

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 17 Jul 2013
Hadi Asghari, Michel van Eeten and Milton Mueller
Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Delft University of Technology and Georgia Institute of Technology
Downloads 190 (263,050)
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internet measurement, datasets, telecom policy, internet governance, multidisciplinary research, quantiative analysis, cybersecurity economics

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Unraveling the Economic and Political Drivers of Deep Packet Inspection

GigaNet 7th Annual Symposium, November 5, 2012, Baku, Azerbaijan
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 17 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2016
Hadi Asghari, Michel van Eeten and Milton Mueller
Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Delft University of Technology and Georgia Institute of Technology
Downloads 184 (270,782)
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DPI, deep packet inspection, internet governance, telecom policy, privacy regulation, network security, surveillance, censorship, bandwidth management

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Disrupting Global Governance: The Internet Whois Service, ICANN, and Privacy

GigaNet: Global Internet Governance Academic Network, Annual Symposium 2008
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 22 Jun 2016
Milton Mueller and Mawaki Chango
Georgia Institute of Technology and Syracuse University - School of Information Studies
Downloads 121 (380,314)
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data protection, default value, domain name, global governance, great powers, ICANN, identity, Internet governance, jurisdiction, path dependency, personal data, policy, privacy, Whois, GigaNet

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Standardizing Security: Surveillance, Human Rights, and TLS 1.3

TPRC48: The 48th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 21 Dec 2020
Milton Mueller and Colin Kiernan
Georgia Institute of Technology and Independent
Downloads 98 (441,647)
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Internet governance, Cybersecurity, Standardization, Surveillance

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Info-Communism? A Critique of the Emerging Discourse on Property Rights in Information

TPRC 2005
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 29 Jul 2012
Milton Mueller
Georgia Institute of Technology
Downloads 97 (444,545)

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Beyond Technical Solutions: Understanding the Role of Governance Structures in Internet Routing Security

GigaNet: Global Internet Governance Academic Network, Annual Symposium 2015
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 18 Jul 2016
Brenden Kuerbis, Milton Mueller and Rio Maulana
Georgia Institute of Technology - School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology and Syracuse University - School of Information Studies
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GigaNet

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Making Data Private - and Excludable: A new approach to understanding the role of data enclosure in the digital political economy

Law & Economics Center at George Mason University Scalia Law School Research Paper Series No. 22-034
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 15 Nov 2022
Brenden Kuerbis and Milton Mueller
Georgia Institute of Technology - School of Public Policy and Georgia Institute of Technology
Downloads 75 (519,898)

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data enclosure, privacy, encryption, competition, platforms

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Dimensioning the Elephant: An Empirical Analysis of the IPv4 Number Market

GigaNet: Global Internet Governance Academic Network, Annual Symposium 2012
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 17 Jul 2016
Milton Mueller, Brenden Kuerbis and Hadi Asghari
Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology - School of Public Policy and Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
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In the Eye of the Beholder: The Role of Needs‐Based Assessment in the IP Address Market

GigaNet: Global Internet Governance Academic Network, Annual Symposium 2013
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 17 Jul 2016
Brenden Kuerbis, Hadi Asghari and Milton Mueller
Georgia Institute of Technology - School of Public Policy, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society and Georgia Institute of Technology
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Unravelling the Economic and Political Drivers of Deep Packet Inspection

GigaNet: Global Internet Governance Academic Network, Annual Symposium 2012
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 17 Jul 2016
Hadi Asghari, Michel van Eeten and Milton Mueller
Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Delft University of Technology and Georgia Institute of Technology
Downloads 30 (766,480)
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The Post-.COM Internet: Toward Regular and Objective Procedures for Internet Governance

TPRC 2003
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 10 May 2012
Milton Mueller and Lee W. McKnight
Georgia Institute of Technology and Syracuse University iSchool
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The Hidden Standards War: Economic Factors Affecting IPv6 Deployment

TPRC47: The 47th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy 2019
Posted: 28 Jun 2019
Brenden Kuerbis and Milton Mueller
Georgia Institute of Technology - School of Public Policy and Georgia Institute of Technology

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IPv6, IP addresses, Standards competition, network externalities, Internet governance

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What's in the Name? A Behavioral Study of the Use of the URLs in China and the US

GigaNet: Global Internet Governance Academic Network, Annual Symposium 2010
Posted: 15 Jul 2016
Dmitry Epstein, Qiu-Hong Wang, Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger, Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger and Milton Mueller
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Department of Communication and the Federmann School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (NUS), Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)Oxford Internet Institute and Georgia Institute of Technology

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Internet Domain Names: Property Rights and Institutional Innovation

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship
Posted: 24 Nov 2009
Milton Mueller
Georgia Institute of Technology

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Domain names, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Property, Property rights, Internet, Commercialization, Organizational change

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Icann and Internet Governance: Sorting Through the Debris of 'Self-Regulation'

Posted: 14 Jan 2000
Milton Mueller
Georgia Institute of Technology

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Trademarks and Domain Names: Property Rights and Institutional Evolution in Cyberspace

Proceedings of the 26th Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, LEA Publishers, 1999
Posted: 27 Aug 1999
Milton Mueller
Georgia Institute of Technology

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