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Program 
Participants 
     Lawrence Lessig 
     Jeanette Hofmann 
       Rob Blokzijl
     Daniel Riek 
     Groups 
       Thanks

Links on: 
     Cyber Law & Internet Governance 
     ICANN 
     Software Patents 
 

The workshop provided an opportunity for the free software and hacking crowd to meet one of the foremost specialists on cyber law and Internet governance, Lawrence Lessig. Additionally to introducing fundamental concepts like regulation through code, the workshop addressed two current issues. 
  
One was ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. The elections of the membership at large to its board of directors is currently under preparation and expected in fall. Jeanette Hofmann gave an introduction to this issue. 
  
The other was the decision of the European Commission's DG XV expected in June on whether or not to introduce software patenting in Europe. The introduction here was given by Daniel Riek. The focus of the workshop was on discussion. 
 
 

Program 

MC: Volker Grassmuck (mikro, HU) 
 

16.00-17.30	Presentation by Lawrence Lessig  Discussion	RealVideo
17.30-18.00	Break
18.00-19.00	ICANN  Introduction by Jeanette Hofmann & Rob Blokzijl Discussion	RealVideo
19.00-19.15	Break
19.15-21.00	Software Patents  Introduction by Daniel Riek  Discussion	RealVideo

 

Participants 

Prof. Lawrence Lessig 
Homepage 
<lessig@pobox.com> 

Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School 
specialist in Internet governance and in open law 
expert in United States v. Microsoft 
visiting researcher at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (9/1/99-7/31/00) 
 

Selected Publications 

• Innovation, Regulation, and The Internet, in: The American Prospect, March 27-April 10,  2000
• Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Basic Books, New York 1999 
• Cyberspace's Constitution (v1.0) (Lecture at the American Academy, Berlin2/00)
• Reclaiming a Commons (v1.0) (Berkman OpenCode/OpenContent/OpenLaw Conference) 
• Open Code and Open Society: Values of Internet Governance (v4.0) (Sibley Lecture, 1999, University of Georgia, 2/99) 
• Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Copyright (Atlantic Unbound Roundtable, 9/98) 
• Governance and the DNS Process (v3.0) (CPSR Keynote, 10/10/98) 
• The Architectures of Mandated Access Controls, (final version)
• The Law of the Horse: What Cyberlaw Might Teach (final version)
• Amicus Brief in United States v. Microsoft (pdf) (html) 
• Lessig, Lawrence, Post, David, Volokh, Eugene (1997): Cyberspace Law for Non-Lawyers. 78 Lessons presented by the Cyberspace Law Institute Washington D.C.

Dr. Jeanette Hofmann 
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin 
<jeanette@medea.wz-berlin.de> 
 
Jeanette Hofmann studied Political Science at FU Berlin. Since 1990 research in sociology of politics and technology at the Science Center Berlin (WZB) and at TU Berlin. 1992 Ph.D. on "Implicit Theories" in technology politics. Followed by work on the digitalization of writing and "User Interface Design" in the framework of the research on the genesis of technology at WZB. 1994 founding of the Projektgruppe "Kulturraum Internet" (Final Report: "Internet... the Final Frontier: eine Ethnographie", Deutsch, English). Empirical Studies on net culture and network organization; case studies on the Internet Protocol and its continuing development. 

Current research interests: Internet Governance in the narrower sense (ICANN as new Internet government) and in a widers sense (technical and political forms of digital ordering of space). 
 

Selected Publications 

• Und wer regiert das Internet? - Regimewechsel im Cyberspace, erscheint in: Jahrbuch Telekommunikation und Gesellschaft 2000
• Wer im Netz regiert. ICANN Die neue Organisation im Fadenkreuz der Interessen, in: Freitag 09,  25. Februar 2000
• Topological Ordering in Cyberspace, held at EASST '98 General Conference, Lissabon, September 30th - October 3, 1998
• Being Near the Heart of Things - Political Authority on the Internet, held at Cultural Politics of Technology, Workshop organized by Centre for Technology and Society, NTNU, Trondheim, June 15-16, 1998
• Deutsche Fassung:  Am Herzen der Dinge - Regierungsmacht im Internet, in: Wienand Gellner & Fritz von Korff (Hg.) Internet und Demokratie, Nomos Verlag: Baden-Baden, S. 55-77, 1998
• "Let A Thousand Proposals Bloom" - Mailinglisten als Forschungsquelle, in: Batinic, B., Graef, L., Werner, A. & Bandilla, W. (Hg.), Online Research. Goettingen: Hogrefe, 1998
• Politik im Internet. Ordnungselemente einer dezentralen Welt, in: Zukünfte 6. Jg., Nr. 17, S. 20-22, 1996 

Rob Blokzijl
Homepage 
Siberian Homepage
<k13@nikhef.nl>

Director of the Board of ICANN 

Robert Blokzijl is a founding member of Réseaux IP Européens (RIPE), the European open forum for IP networking. Since its foundation in 1989, he has been chairman of this organization, and was instrumental in the creation of RIPE NCC in 1992 as the first Regional Internet Registry in the world.

Prior to this, he has been active in building networks for the particle physics community in Europe.

Robert Blokzijl graduated from the University of Amsterdam (1970) and holds a doctorate in experimental physics from the same university (1977). He is currently employed by the National Institute of Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics (NIKHEF).

Rob was selected for the ICANN Board by the Address Supporting Organization.
 

• RFC 1181, RIPE Terms of Reference, September 1990
• participated in the "State of the Internet: Roundtable 4.0" , incl. Vint Cerf, Larry Landweber, Jon Postel (IEEE Spectrum Magazine, October 1998)
• Geek of the Week, on early Internet radio hosted by Carl Malamud, July 1, 1993

Daniel Riek 
<riek@id-pro.de> 
Co-founder and board member of ID-PRO AG,
member of the managing board of Linux Verband LIVE.

Daniel Riek has been involved with computers since his early years and was already active on Fidonet before he discovered the Internet in 1992 and LINUX in 1993. Free Software btw, was already important in the days of Fidonet. After graduating from high-school in 1993 and concluding his civil service, he started studying computer science in Bonn in 1994, which came to an early end with the founding of ID-PRO in 1997. From 1997 he was managing director of ID-PRO GmbH, and since summer 1999 he is member of the board of ID-PRO AG. Since LinuxTag'99 he is also member of the managing board of Linux Verband LIVE. 

ID-PRO understands itself as an open source consulting and service corporation, a commitment to free software is part of their concept. Therefore, both in the name of LIVE and in that of ID-PRO Daniel Riek opposes the introduction of software patents. 
 

Selected Publications 

• Softwarepatente gefährden Fortschritt durch Wettbewerb (Thesen) 

Groups 
mikro 
Computer Science & Society of Humboldt University 
Berliner Linux User Group (BeLUG)
CCC Berlin 
Individual Network Berlin 
 

Special Thanks to 
Roter Salon
OVA 
Linux Information Systems AG 
LunetIX
DV-Cameras: Gusztàv Hàmos, Oleg Stepanov, Christoph Keller, Thomax Kaulman 
Chat: Sebastian Lütgert, Walter van der Cruijsen, Ulrich Gutmair
Networking & digi-pics: Wilhelm Schäfer (mind), Boris Weigelt, Robert Fürst
Support: Diana McCarty, Pit Schultz, Ellen Nonnenmacher, Inke Arns, Tilman Baumgärtel, Thorsten Schilling 
 

Press

• Ulrich Gutmair, Die Politik des Code (Telepolis, 17.4.2000) 
• Tilman Baumgärtel, Patent auf den Gärtner als Mörder. Verhindern Softwarepatente wissenschaftliche Fortschritte und wirtschaftliche Innovation? (Berliner Zeitung, 12.4.2000)
• Stefan Heidenreich, Kontrolle oder Kreativität. Was ist Cyberlaw? Lawrence Lessig über das Recht des Internts, (FAZ, 12.4.2000)