Over the years, the world saw the Internet as a creature of the United States Now some claim that the Internet is a self-governing organism controlled by no one and needed no supervision. Although the National Science Foundation and other government agencies continue to support and oversee the administrative functions and coordination of critical, the Internet is highly decentralized and uninstitutionalized. As grown in scope, bandwidth, and functionality, the Internet will require greater coordination, but coordination is not clear what mechanism will be developed. The essays in this book clarify this issue and suggest a possible model to regulate the Internet. One recurring theme is the inseparability of technical and policy issues in any discussion involving the Internet. Bellovin, Scott Bradner, Richard Cawley, Che-Hoo Cheng, Bilal Chinoy, K. Claffy, Maria Farnon, William Foster, Alexander Gigante, Sharon Eisner Gillett, Mark Gould, Eric Hoffman, Scott Huddle, Joseph Y. McKnight, Don Mitchell, Tracie Monk, Milton Mueller, Carl Oppedahl, David G. Post, Yakov Rekhter, Paul Resnick, A.