Technical Regulation of the Internet : From Standardization to behavioral and societal Norms

Workshop in Paris, March 31st 2009, organized by the Innovation & Regulation Chair (Orange-Ecole Polytechnique-Telecom ParisTech) and Vox Internet II (FMSH- ENS LSH-CSI).

See the general presentation of the workshop.

Gathering high-level experts and more than 70 attendants, the workshop fully reached its goals in presenting multidisciplinar and multiprofessionnal approaches and giving way to lively discussions.

Here are the slides and the audio for each speaker :

Françoise Massit-Folléa, FMSH- Vox Internet II and Pierre-Jean Benghozi, Ecole Polytechnique-CNRS : Introductive Presentation.

Paul David, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research : Introduction

Chairman : Marc Boureau (Telecom ParisTech)

Daniel Dardailler, W3C Associate Chair for Europe & Director of International Relations, Improvising Soicety through better Uses of Web Standards

Jean-Pierre Henninot, French Ministry Finances & Industry,Vice-Chairman ETSI Board, ICT Standardization and the place of Internet

Session 2 : Technical norms or market norms ?

Chairman : Pierre-Jean Benghozi (Ecole Polytechnique-CNRS)

Richard Delmas, E.C-DG-INFSO–European Neighbourhood Policy-Union pour la Méditerranée, ICT standardisation, the EU New Approach and the Europeaan Neighbourhood Policy

Kai Jacobs, Computer Science Department, Aachen University, The IETF’s Standards Setting Process - Is still Up to the Job ?

François-Xavier Dudouet, CNRS – Paris Dauphine University & X and Antoine Vion, Aix-Marseille 2, New Web standard in the making : Transnational private governance and Beyond

Session 3 : Conflicts of normativity in Internet Standardization

Chairwoman : Françoise Massit-Folléa (FMSH- Vox Internet II)

Louis Pouzin, Eurolinc, Internet standardization remains unilateral

Jean-Michel Dalle, Pierre et Marie Curie University, The problems with(in) online creative communities

Georg C. T. Greve, Free Software European Foundation, Freedom, Innovation and Competition

Yves Poullet & Antoinette Rouvroy, CRID – FUNDP, Namur, Regulation through law vs.regulation through technology : the virtues of the explicit

Jean-Christophe Graz, Institute of Political International Studies, University of Lausanne, The rise of service standards between socialization and commodification

Concluding remarks :

Philippe Lucas, VP International Standardization & Industrial Relationships, France Telecom, A global Standardization Telco Ecosystem and the impact of IP in the telecom industry

Further informations about the Innovation & Regulation Chair or Vox Internet