... question of “who governs”. Among documents coded for law, subcodes included “contract”, “legal uncertainty”, “pertinent law”, “regulation”, and “law-like RFC features”. Internet Design Contracts Digital communication systems Legal systems Protocols Vint Cerf, writing in “The current flow...

... employs transaction cost economics in analyzing the role of government in regulating electronic contracting. Due to the transaction costs arising from e‐commerce, explicit contracts between parties are usually incomplete. The paper argues that these contracts should always be backed by implicit contracts...

...William Lehr; Lee W. McKnight Delivering real‐time services (Internet telephony, video conferencing, and streaming media as well as business‐critical data applications) across the Internet requires end‐to‐end quality of service (QoS) guarantees, which requires a hierarchy of contracts...