Barbara van Schewick’s Internet Architecture and Innovation is now available in paperback and for Kindle. First published by MIT Press in August 2010, the book has come to be recognized as the ...

In the natural world, species that share the same ecosystem often compete for resources, resulting in the extinction of weaker competitors. A new computer model that describes the evolution of the ...

On December 1, Professor Barbara van Schewick discussed her new book Internet Architecture and Innovation. The book analyzes how the Internet’s internal structure, or architecture, has fostered ...

“Forms grow out of principles and operate to continue the principles they grow from.” Just as ICANN’s origins are shrouded in secrecy, the discussion and plans to transform ICANN go on in secret, with ...

As Christopher Hawthorne moves on from the Los Angeles Times and as new forms of criticism proliferate, we asked the architecture community what the role of the critic is today, and what it might be ...

Urban spaces are often designed to be subtly hostile to certain uses. Think about, for example, the seat partitions on bus terminal benches that make it harder for the homeless to sleep there or the ...

Australia's push to enact laws that would allow its law-enforcement agencies to compel companies help them break their own encryption represent an existential threat to the internet's security and ...

I work at APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry that serves the Asia Pacific Region. APNIC provides common infrastructure services for the region that support the unique assignment of IP address ...

In a review of Federal agencies work on cybersecurity, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) internet architecture is generally considered resilient, but there are still risks involved that ...

Founded in 1983 as the Internet Activities Board, the Internet Architecture Board is a volunteer organization that provides architectural guidance to and adjudicates conflicts for the Internet ...

The Internet Architecture Board warns that age assurance relying on service provider checks will fail and leave youth less safe online. IAB says device-based mechanisms, such as those already shipped ...