... space. However, IPv6 is not backward compatible with the existing internet. For 20 years, the internet technical community has attempted to migrate the entire internet to the new standard. This study aims to address important but overlooked questions about the internet’s technical evolution...

... of technologies, standards and business models – yet the communications must get through. Today’s Internet still corresponds to a set of quite limited needs for radio spectrum compared to those of the future IoT, although its architecture will hopefully prove to be adaptable to the new constraints...

.../implications The analysis does not cover the demand side (contents, culture) nor developments in non‐terrestrial digital platforms, nor in the US‐based IBOC standard. Practical implications There is considerable scope, particularly in large, sparsely inhabited countries with sizeable rural...

...Heejin Lee; Shirley Chan; Sangjo Oh Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show that, since China's accession to the WTO in 2001, standards have emerged as an effective means to protect and promote domestic industries, especially in the ICT sector. China has made several attempts to set its...

.... The characteristics are transparency, defaults, and standards. For each characteristic, the paper discusses the salient regulatory issues for manipulating code. Additionally, the paper provides normative proposals for modifying some characteristics, such as defaults. In sum, our analysis should aid policymakers...