Call for Papers

Please send your proposal until January, 15, 2011 to Sandra Hoferichter

While there is still a discussion, what the concept of the” Internet of Things” means in practice, the real process of connecting objects equipped with RFID chips to the Internet via an IPv6 address continues to move forward. The market is growing and so growths the debate about the governance implications of the “Internet of Things”. The European Commission has established a “Task Force on the Internet of Things”, the European parliament has published a report about the issue and the recent 5th UN sponsored Internet Governance Forum (IGF) has reactivated the Dynamic Coalition on the Internet of Things (IGF-DyCIT). Among the key issues under consideration is whether an “Internet of Things” needs a governance mechanisms and, if yes, how such a mechanism should be designed. Other key issues are privacy, security and the idea to introduce a “right to silence the chip”. We call for Papers for the following six issues:

• The role of the Domain Name System (DNS) in building networks which link objects together
• The mechanisms and procedures for the allocation of critical Internet resources, in particular IP addresses, to objects
• The design for an informal or formal governance mechanisms for the ONS and networks which link objects to the Internet, if needed
• The options for privacy protection, in particular at the “Rendezvous Point” where on object meets a subject (the concept of the right to silence the chip)
• The challenges for security and stability of the Internet
• The role of the various stakeholders (Private Sector, Technical Community, Government, Users/Civil Society)