Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review Volume 36 Number 3 Symposium: ICANN Governance Article 6 3-1-2003 Governance in Namespaces Stefan Bechtold Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/llr Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Stefan Bechtold, Governance in Namespaces, 36 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 1239 (2003). Available at: https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/llr/vol36/iss3/6 This Symposium is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Reviews at Digital Commons @ Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. GOVERNANCE IN NAMESPACES Stefan Bechtold* The assignment of numbers is also handled by Jon. If you are developing a protocol or application that will require the use of a link, socket, port, protocol, or network number please contact Jon to receive a number assignment.' Anyone can assign names. We each do that all the time.2 eBay reserves the right to modify, alter or suspend any User ID at any time (at our sole discretion and without notice)3 for any reason whatsoever. * Research Assistant, University of Tilbingen Law School, Germany; Fellow, 2002-2003, Center for Internet & Society, Stanford Law School; J.S.M., 2002, Stanford Law School; Dr. lur. (J.S.D.), 2001, University of Ttlbingen Law School, Germany; Referendar (J.D.), 1999, University of Tilbingen Law School, Germany. I would like to thank Peter Bechtold, Jonathan Greenberg, Jeff Gould, Brian Hemphill, Kurt Jaeger, Lawrence Lessig, Nelson Minar, Wernhard M.schel, Milton Mueller, Markus MOiler, Tomas Sander, and the participants who attended workshops and seminars at Stanford Law School and the University of Tobingen Law School, Germany, as well as the TPRC 2002 participants for their valuable comments and suggestions.