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From the author: 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.

Citation Details
Title: Ruling the Root.(Book Review)
Author: Jonathan Zittrain
Publication: Federal Communications Law Journal (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2002
Publisher: University of California at Los Angeles, School of Law
Volume: 55 Issue: 1 Page: 153(14)

Article Type: Book Review

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