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16 Geo. J. Int'l Aff. 83 (2015)
Back to the Future of Internet Governance?

handle is hein.journals/geojaf16 and id is 610 raw text is: Global Governance 010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101101010101010101( Back to the Future of Internet Governance? ScottJ. Shackelford, Enrique Oti, Jaclyn A. Kerr, Elaine Korzak, Andreas Kuehn In that seminal 1980s Hollywood picture, Back to the Future: Part II, the characters travel to the future from 1985 to a then distant 2oi5 replete with flying cars, hover boards, and instant pizza. The directors envisioned a world of rapid technological progress and in so doing got some things right (like wireless tablets, flat screen TVs, and a version of Google Glass) and some things wrong (we're, alas, still waiting for the hover boards). Looking at the interconnected reality of 2015, though, one key element largely missing from the plot was the Internet. Yet as we all know today with hindsight's benefit, the Internet has become arguably the most impor- tant driver of disruptive innovation in the early twenty-first century, though how we govern this dynamic space has its roots in earlier eras, including the 1980s. This article briefly reviews the history of Internet gover- nance, paying particular attention to the period from 2012- 14 focusing on the geopolitical fissures exposed at the World Conference on International Telecommunications 2012 (WCIT-12) up to the immediate aftermath of the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2014 (PP-14). Our over- arching research question is what conclusions may be drawn from PP-14, including whether concerns over the beginning of a new chapter in Internet governance signaling a greater role for national governments, similar to the role that nations played in the past - particularly during the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) era - may now be put to rest,I or whether the multi-stakeholder status quo remains Scott J. Shackelford, JD, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Business Law and Ethics at Indiana University. He is a Senior Fellow at the Indiana University Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research and the W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo- Campbell National Fellow at the Stanford University Hoover Institution. Enrique Oti is a National Security Affairs Fellow at the Stanford University Hoover Institution. Jaclyn A. Kerr is Cyber- security Postdoctoral Fel- low at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute. Elaine Korzak, LLM, PhD, is a Cybersecurity Postdoctoral Fellow Stan- ford University's Freeman Spogli Institute. Andreas (uehn is a Zukerman Cybersecurity Predoctoral Fellow Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute. International Engagement on Cyber V [8 31 010

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