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Autumn 2014
Title: The Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) System
Assignment: Critically discuss the utility and limitations of ICANN’s Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) system. Your discussion should also, where appropriate, draw brief lines of comparison with ICANN’s Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP).
Autumn 2013
Title: Registry Agreement Section 2.2 and ICANN’s Policy-making Authority
Assignment: Section 2.2 of the New gTLD Registry Agreement (version approved by NGPC 2 July 2013) obliges Registry Operator to comply with Consensus Policies and Temporary Policies, within certain limits. Examine the nature of this clause in light of ICANN's policy-making authority.
Autumn 2012
Critically discuss the role of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers in Internet governance"
Autumn 2011
Non-discrimination
Please answer both of the following questions. Each question shall be given equal weight in the grading of the answers.
- Explain the objectives of the non-discrimination rule in the Access Directive, Article 10.
- How can the non-discrimination rule resolve anti-competitive behavior by dominant vertically integrated telecommunications operators?
Previous exam papers for JUR1640 and JUR5640
Autumn 2010
Please answer all of the following questions. Each question will be given equal weight in the marking of the answers.
1. In the EU regulatory framework for electronic communications, what is significant market power and what are the consequences of having such power?
2. Lawrence Solum has stated that “ICANN is best understood as an attempt to institutionalize and preserve the autonomy of an engineering-based approach to Internet governance in face of pressures to cede control to either national governments or market mechanisms”. Discuss the validity of that statement.
Autumn 2009
Please answer both of the following questions. Each question shall be given equal weight in the grading of the answers.
1. Critically discuss the role played by the concept “Significant Market Power” in the 2002/03 EU regulatory framework for electronic communications.
2. What is signified by the phrase “rough consensus and running code”? To what extent does the phrase accurately describe the current form(s) of Internet governance? To what extent ought such governance to conform to the principle(s) expressed by the phrase?
Autumn 2008
Please answer both of the following questions. Each question shall be given equal weight in the grading of the answers.
1. Critically discuss the following claim: “The EU regulatory framework for electronic communications has increasingly diverged from the rules in general competition law”.
2. What role does the Internet Engineering Task Force play in Internet governance?
Autumn 2007
Please answer all of the following questions. Each question will be given equal weight in the marking of the answers.
1. What are the principal obligations of transparency in the EU regulatory framework for electronic communications, and what aim(s) do these obligations ultimately fulfill?
2. What is the role of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers in
governance of the Internet, and why has that role been controversial?
Autumn 2006
Please answer all of the following questions. Each question will be given equal weight in the marking of the answers.
- What is significant market power and what are the consequences of having significant market power?
- Explain the role of the National Regulatory Authority and the EU-Commission in defining relevant markets and assessing significant market power.
- What is the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy, and what are its main strengths and weaknesses?