Negotiating a New Governance Hierarchy: An Analysis of the Conflicting Incentives to Secure...

Abstract: New security technologies are never neutral in their impact; it is known that they can alter power relations and economic dependencies among stakeholders. This article examines the attempt to introduce the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) to the Internet to help improve routing security, and identifies incentives various actors have towards RPKI implementation.
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Does RPKI have anything to do with ACTA(Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement), which essentially creates an entirely new governing body beyond the powers of the WTO(World Trade Organization) and WIPO(World Intellectual Property Organization)? Sometimes there are so many layers of bureaucracy relating to the internet that it's hard to keep track of. (pretty astounding, considering the platform didn't get any real traction until the mid-nineties).